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An Australian Man Thought He Had Found Gold, Only to Discover He Actually Had a Fragment of the Solar System - Indian Defence Review
science 2026/02/28 11:30:00

An Australian Man Thought He Had Found Gold, Only to Discover He Actually Had a Fragment of the Solar System - Indian Defence Review

He thought he’d struck gold in Victoria’s historic fields. Instead, a stubborn, unbreakable rock that defied saws, acid, and a sledgehammer hid a secret billions of years in the making.

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‘Blood Moon’ Alert: Exact Time Tuesday’s Total Lunar Eclipse Turns Red - Forbes
science 2026/02/28 07:00:00

‘Blood Moon’ Alert: Exact Time Tuesday’s Total Lunar Eclipse Turns Red - Forbes

Everything you need to know about March 2’s full moon and March 3’s “blood moon” total lunar eclipse, as the full moon rises and drifts into Earth’s shadow and turns red.

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Male Neanderthals and female humans shaped modern DNA through ancient interbreeding, study finds - Archaeology News Online Magazine
science 2026/02/28 02:57:46

Male Neanderthals and female humans shaped modern DNA through ancient interbreeding, study finds - Archaeology News Online Magazine

New research reveals that interbreeding between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens shaped patterns still visible in modern human DNA.

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Dynamical freezing can protect quantum information for near-cosmic timescales - Phys.org
science 2026/02/28 00:40:01

Dynamical freezing can protect quantum information for near-cosmic timescales - Phys.org

Preserving quantum information is key to developing useful quantum computing systems. But interacting quantum systems are chaotic and follow laws of thermodynamics, eventually leading to information loss. Physicists have long known of a strange exception, cal…

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Jupiter Mission Captures Rare Shot of Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas on Its Way Out - Gizmodo
science 2026/02/27 20:50:15

Jupiter Mission Captures Rare Shot of Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas on Its Way Out - Gizmodo

The JUICE mission snapped photos of Comet 3I/Atlas after surviving its closest approach to the Sun.

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NASA redirects Artemis moon mission program, postponing a planned astronaut landing - NPR
science 2026/02/27 20:43:28

NASA redirects Artemis moon mission program, postponing a planned astronaut landing - NPR

In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA’s new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of landing on the surface on Artemis III, NASA hopes to do so on Artemis IV.

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