The Northern Lights were spotted across Scotland on Tuesday night and there may be more sightings across the north of the UK on Wednesday.
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Aurora borealis shines in UK skies after geomagnetic storm
Tag Archives: Science
Oxford Researchers Add New Wrinkle To Mystery Of Earth’s Water
New findings question how much asteroids or comets needed to deliver to create our wet world.
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Author: Eric Mack
The Lyrids are back: How to catch this year’s spring meteor shower
The night sky will dazzle this week as the Lyrid meteor shower kicks off its annual display, marking the return of one of the oldest and most reliable celestial shows of the year.
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Author: Samantha Mathewson
Scientists find evidence that overturns theories of the origin of
University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface. Instead, the material which built our planet was far
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Author: ox.ac.uk
Rogue Magnetar Defies Known Star Birth
A wandering cosmic powerhouse with a magnetic field trillion times stronger than Earth’s is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how the universe’s
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Author: NASA/JPL
Cambridge University finds flowers on brownfield sites ‘harm bees’
Metals in brownfield land can harm pollinators when wildflowers bloom there, say researchers.
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Author: @BBCNews
Runaway Magnetar is Traversing Milky Way from Unknown Place of Origin, Astronomers Say
SGR 0501+4516 is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way Galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted; the object is so strange it might even offer clues to the mechanism behind fast radio bursts.
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Author: NASA
Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health
The metals have previously been shown to damage the health of pollinators, which ingest them in nectar as they feed, leading to reduced population sizes and death. Even low nectar metal levels can
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Author: University of Cambridge
Wildflowers could be absorbing toxic metals that pass on to bees, study finds
Scientists call for urban areas to be tested for contaminants and potentially cleaned before wildflowers are planted
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Author: Helena Horton
Lyrid meteor shower: How and when to see it in the UK sky
April brings stargazers Lyrid meteor shower which peaks next week.
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Author: @bbcweather
2,000 Years Before Modern Technology, the Greeks Had Built the World’s First Computer (So Advanced That It Still Baffles Scientists)
Divers searching for sponges stumbled upon a strange, gear-filled object buried in a sunken Roman ship. What they pulled from the Aegean seafloor defied everything historians thought they knew.
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Author: Arezki Amiri
Origins of Water on Earth May Not Have Started with an Asteroid Impact
The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to form water.
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Author: Paul Smaglik
Scientists have found the origin of WATER on Earth
Scientists have discovered where Earth’s water comes from, and say that it wasn’t brought to the planet by asteroid impacts after all.
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Author: Wiliam Hunter
Scientists find evidence that challenges theories of the origin of water on Earth
A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a rare type of meteorite, known as an enstatite chondrite, which has a composition …
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Author: University of Oxford
Water did not come to Earth from asteroids, Oxford study suggests
New research finds far richer supplies of hydrogen were already on planet than previously thought
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Author: Sarah Knapton
The Universe May Be Rotating Once Every 500 Billion Years, And It Could Explain The Hubble Tension
A new, rotating “dark fluid” model could explain one of the trickiest problems in physics.
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Author: James Felton
Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning
Like a record, baby.
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Author: Michael Irving
Incredible Photo of a Dying Star Shows How Far Telescopes Have Come
Space telescope cameras have gotten a heck of a lot better.
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Author: Jeremy Gray
World’s First Computer May Not Be a Computer at All – New Study Questions Antikythera’s Purpose!
The Antikythera Mechanism, once thought to be an advanced astronomical tool, may have been a malfunctioning toy prone to constant jams, according to new research.
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Author: Lydia Amazouz
A solar storm could impact the Earth tomorrow
Forecasters say the northern lights could be seen across a large swath of the U.S.
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Author: Julia Musto
We May Finally Understand Where the Universe’s Missing Matter Has Been Hiding
Learn how astronomers found the invisible ionized gas that forms puffy halos surrounding galaxies.
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Author: Paul Smaglik
Exact times Northern Lights could be visible as Met Office issues update after alert triggered
The Met Office has issued an update after a Geomagnetic Storm Watch alert was triggered
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Author: Ryan Paton
The exact times Northern Lights could be visible ‘for much of England’ tonight
The aurora borealis could light up UK skies again this weekend
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Author: Miranda Pell
Hubble tracks a roaming magnetar of unknown origin
Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway magnetar is …
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Author: Claire Andreoli,Bethany Downer,Ray Villard
