20 h. ago ‘People can’t imagine something on that scale dying’: Anohni on mourning the Great Barrier Reef

The Anohni and the Johnsons singer is collaborating with marine scientists for two special shows at Sydney’s Vivid festival that will show the reef’s plight Anohni Hegarty is about to go to the Great Barrier Reef for the first time. “I feel like I’m going to Auschwitz,” she says nervously. “On the one hand, I’m so excited to go because the landscape is so beautiful, and I know there’s going to be so much that’s gorgeous. And yet, I’m also scared.”In a week, the British-born, New York-based avant garde singer of Anohni and the Johnsons is flying to Lizard Island, a paradise of powdery sands on the reef, 1,600km north-west of Brisbane. Its luxury villas and bluest of blue waters are a stark contrast to the grim nature of Anohni’s assignment: documenting the current state of the world’s biggest coral reef. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago NASA spots mystery 'skull' on Mars and scientists are baffled

NASA's Perroverance rover has discovered a mystery rock on Mars that is baffling scientists as they believe it originated from elsewhere, with the team currently working to understand where on Mars the rock formed

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3 d. ago NASA scientists baffled as rover discovers mysterious 'skull' on Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has stumbled across yet another unusual rock on the Red Planet

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3 d. ago NASA scientists are BAFFLED after spotting a mysterious 'Skull Hill' on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a mysterious rock on the Red Planet, which the space agency has named 'Skull Hill'.

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8 d. ago Life on Mars WAS possible! Scientists say carbon residue in the Red Planet's rocks show it was habitable billions of years ago

Scientists have found carbon residue in Martian rocks, indicating that an ancient carbon cycle existed. It means Mars was likely once warm enough to sustain life.

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9 d. ago Mars 'once home to alien lifeforms' as NASA makes bombshell Red Planet discovery

Aliens could once have been living on Mars after scientists made a bombshell discovery while drilling on the Red Planet. The NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover squad are buzzing

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1 week ago NASA spots strange 'mushballs' of slushy hail fall on planet in our Solar System

Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery

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2 w. ago Harvard scientist claims Mars was home to a civilization wiped out in a nuclear war

While NASA continues to search for life on Mars, a Harvard scientist has claimed it was destroyed in a nuclear war millions of years ago.

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3 w. ago It came from outer space: the meteorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul

Meteorite falls are extremely rare and offer a glimpse of the processes that formed our world billions of years ago. When a space rock came to an English market town in 2021, scientists raced to find as much out as they couldBy Helen Gordon. Read by Sasha Frost Continue reading...

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3 w. ago More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the Trump administration’s attacks on science.The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Scientists are baffled after discovering a bizarre rock on Mars that's like NOTHING they've ever seen

They look like a dish of lentils, or a mass of spider eggs on a leaf. But whatever they are, these tiny little brown blobs, newly-found on the surface of Mars, have left scientists baffled.

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3 w. ago NASA scientists 'astonished' as they make 'strange' discovery on Mars

NASA's rover has spotted 'strange' rocks on the Red Planet that have left scientists puzzled

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4 w. ago Changing your clock? Scientists are only just beginning to understand what this does to us | Ruth Ogden

Our research in October showed that ‘falling back’ had a negative impact on women, especially mothers. Do we need to shift the way we think about time?Twice a year we change the clocks. For many it is not clear why and how this change affects us. So last October, with the help of the Guardian, a group of scientists at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Oxford conducted a nationwide survey to understand the impact on people’s daily lives.More than 12,000 people answered questions about their wellbeing, satisfaction with life and stress levels, completing the survey in the week before the clocks went back and again in the days immediately after. When we compared the responses, we found that women’s mental health and wellbeing suffered in the immediate aftermath of the clocks going back, while men experienced greater wellbeing and greater satisfaction with life. So what does this tell us about the way we experience time?Ruth Ogden is professor of the psychology of t...

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