UNIVERSE & BEYOND

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  2 days ago

  9 miles of solid diamonds may lurk beneath Mercury's surface, new study finds

  Live Science - By Deepa Jain

  New simulations suggest that a 9-mile-thick layer of diamonds may lurk deep below the surface of Mercury. The gems almost certainly can't be mined …

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  2 days ago

  25 things to admire in the night sky that aren't just the moon and stars

  space.com - By Monisha Ravisetti

  For some targets on this list, you don't even need a telescope. We're celebrating Space.com's 25th birthday this week, and instead of pinning a tail …

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  5 days ago

  Icy planet shows signs of an atmosphere

  futurity.org - Morgan Sherburne-Michigan

  Researchers have identified a temperate exoplanet as a promising super-Earth ice or water world. The planet, LHS 1140 b, is located about 48 …

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  Jul 12

  CERN Physicists Report First Direct Detection of Electron Neutrinos in Groundbreaking Experiment

  thedebrief.org - Micah Hanks

  Electron neutrinos have been experimentally observed for the first time during recent experiments by physicists at CERN, which produced proton-proton …

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  Jul 5

  How neutrinos offer clues to the matter-antimatter puzzle

  bigthink.com - Don Lincoln

  If you go to the zoo, you will find a dizzying variety of animals — some familiar and some completely strange. The same is true of researchers trying …

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  Jul 11

  Why doesn’t the expanding Universe break the speed of light?

  bigthink.com - Ethan Siegel

  If there’s one rule that most people know about the Universe, it’s that there’s an ultimate speed limit that nothing can exceed: the speed of light …