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These Birds Politely Gesture ‘After You’ in a Never-Before-Documented Behavior
Tits are polite, at least while mating. Don’t misinterpret what I say: a team of scientists observed the birds fluttering their wings to signal their mating partner to go first when returning to their nests, expanding the number of species known to communicate by gesture. Humans rely on many types of nonverbal communication. There’s the…
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Scientists Can Detect Life in Single Grain of Alien Ice
Icy moons like Europa and Enceladus are exciting venues for the prospect of life beyond Earth, because they are thought to contain oceans of water beneath their frigid surfaces. Now, a team of scientists has concluded that a single grain of material spewed up by the outgassing moons could contain biosignatures—signs of life—if there are…
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Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse Will Be Australia’s Last for a Year – Here’s How to Watch It
Tonight, the last lunar eclipse in Australia for almost an entire year will take place. Here’s when you can see it.
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Supercomputer Suggests ‘Super Diamonds’ Could Exist in Space
Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring material on Earth, but a supercomputer just modeled stuff that’s even harder. Called a ‘super-diamond,’ the theoretical material could exist beyond our planet—and maybe, one day, be created here on Earth. Like normal diamonds, super-diamonds are made from carbon atoms. This specific phase of carbon, composed of eight atoms,…