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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? - Quanta Magazine
science 2026/06/15 15:12:53

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? - Quanta Magazine

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5.

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How Ancient People Moved a 6-Ton Stone 700 Kilometers to Stonehenge - SciTechDaily
science 2026/06/15 14:57:58

How Ancient People Moved a 6-Ton Stone 700 Kilometers to Stonehenge - SciTechDaily

Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone likely traveled about 700 kilometers from Scotland through a carefully planned human effort.

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The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close - Space Daily
science 2026/06/15 13:55:09

The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close - Space Daily

When the Space Shuttle retired in July 2011, the United States lost the ability to reach the very space station it had built — and for nearly nine years, American astronauts hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules at up to $90 million per seat. Then a private…

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Why the International Space Station keeps leaking - Axios
science 2026/06/08 20:13:09

Why the International Space Station keeps leaking - Axios

It’s been a problem since 2019.

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Dazzling image of the Crystal Ball Nebula shows a dying star in a binary system - CNN
science 2026/06/08 19:46:50

Dazzling image of the Crystal Ball Nebula shows a dying star in a binary system - CNN

Astronomers have used the Gemini North telescope to capture a new image of a planetary nebula nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula.

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California's tectonic stress has reached record level, earthquake model reveals - Phys.org
science 2026/06/08 17:40:09

California's tectonic stress has reached record level, earthquake model reveals - Phys.org

Earthquakes usually occur along fracture zones in Earth’s crust, where large tectonic plates slide past one another and become locked. Stress builds up over long periods and is suddenly released in the form of an earthquake. In Southern California, the San An…

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