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While hunting for the disputed planet Fomalhaut b, astronomers on Hubble noticed a second point of light appear out of nowhere near the same star, and Berkeley's Paul Kalas says it looks like the debris of a violent collision unlike anything in our solar system today
Why does a Central African rainforest nation get paid tens of millions of dollars to keep its trees standing while its own timber industry argues those same trees are worth more felled?
The immortal jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can respond to injury or starvation by reabsorbing its tentacles, sinking to the seafloor, and reverting its adult cells back into a juvenile polyp, essentially rewinding its own development instead of dying
In September 2026, Catalina Sky Survey spotted 2026 RW1 about seven hours before it burned up over the Indian Ocean; the 0.6–1.3-metre rock’s entry point was fixed to under 100 metres
