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One of the ocean’s most intelligent and aggressive predators has once again surprised scientists with a curious new behavior. In the Gulf of California, researchers witnessed orcas working together to smash dead sunfish into bits — a suspected food processing technique that makes it easier for younger whales to feed on the enormous bony fish…

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Galaxies surrounded by reservoirs of cold gas draw that gas into themselves and convert it into new stars. Astronomers find this throughout the Universe, including in the Milky Way. But there are exceptions, and the JWST has found plenty of queiscent galaxies in the early Universe. Astrophysicists want to know why. Astronomers have used NASA’s…

A meteorite recovered immediately upon its fall to Earth on July 16, 2024, is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ancient water, the chemical evolution of primitive asteroids, and the ingredients that may have helped make life possible throughout the early solar system. This rapid recovery began when an amateur astronomer in New Jersey…

Researchers from Brown University and the University of Michigan have achieved something that scientists had only imagined until now. By carefully arranging tiny particles of silver into custom-built structures, they created and stabilized a previously elusive state of matter that had existed only in theoretical models. The work, published in Science, captures an intermediate structural…