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The devices used in one of the most famous student experiments of the year were paper and gym equipment. Miles Wu, 14, from New York City, spent his project folding the same origami pattern over and over again (54 systematic variations of it) and then crushing his own handiwork, loading dumbbells into each folded structure … Read more

MARMARTH, ND (CBS News Minnesota) – Paleontologists have discovered the first known footprint made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex: four connected footprints found in the badlands of southwestern North Dakota, not far from the Montana border. The finding is described in a new paper published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Previously, only … Read more

In 2018, scientists confirmed the existence of superionic ice, a strange phase of water that is part solid and part liquid, trapped in a cubic lattice with free-flying hydrogen atoms. Scientists believe this ice lives deep in Uranus and Neptune. So they tried to recreate this ice on Earth. Cue strange physics. Needless to say, … Read more

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This fossilized feather dates back to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. “It is, without a doubt, the best feather we have found from the age of dinosaurs,” says Jingmai O’Connor, associate curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. Nate Carroll hide caption toggle caption Nate Carroll Paleontology can … Read more

A new study shows that small, wrinkled Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos version of a grape shriveling into a raisin in the sun. Scientists at the Space Research Institute of the German Aerospace Center reported Thursday that Mercury’s shrinkage may be 30% larger than previously believed: a diameter loss of up … Read more

SpaceX launched a secret mission for the US Space Force today (September 10) from the central coast of California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 11:42 a.m. EDT (1542 GMT; 8:42 a.m. local time), kicking off a mission called USSF-153. The rocket’s first stage returned to Earth about … Read more

Every official latitude, longitude, and elevation published in the United States will change by up to four meters. The terrain described will not have moved at all. What is being replaced is the reference system from which those numbers are counted. The National Geodetic Survey is retiring the 1983 North American datum and the 1988 … Read more

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Brigid Lynch was walking through a redwood forest in the hills of San Mateo County when she noticed something unusual, half submerged in the water flowing through a stream: a large, smooth object that didn’t look like any of the other rocks. “It really stood out,” he said. “I had no idea what it was. … Read more