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Beats: Aliens, Earth Sciences

Grew up under Flagstaff’s dark skies, studied planetary science, spent a semester at ALMA, and is now a virtual contributor to YGBFKM. Convinced the universe is stranger than we’re told and plans to prove it. Has two cats: Sagan and Fermi.

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on Jun 15

AARO Tracks Genuine UAP by Radar Signature and Infrared. The Pentagon Released Eyewitness Sketches.

A flying potato. Glowing orbs. A 1949 letter to J. Edgar Hoover. The Pentagon's third UAP release spans 77 years of unexplained sightings and zero resolved cases.

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on Jun 08

The Bar at the Beginning of the Universe

Stellar bars don't survive in gas-rich environments. GN20 is 75 percent gas. It has one anyway.

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on May 28

The Pentagon Dropped 50 More UAP Videos. The Lake Huron File Was Worth the Wait.

The NSA released hundreds of UAP pages days before the Pentagon drop. Many are still heavily redacted and some are decades old.

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on May 26

Rocky, Gaseous, Gaseous, Rocky. The Universe Skipped Astronomy 101.

A star 116 light-years away built its planets in an order that shouldn't exist. What happened out there at the edge?

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on May 25

The End of the Universe

Astronomers say we've been misreading dark energy; the cosmological constant is negative. Not good news for the universe.

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on May 25

Fight Clubs of the Cosmos

Too massive to originate from a single collapsing star, the biggest black holes form from a series of clashes of smaller black holes.

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on May 19

Pond Creature With No Brain and a Better Memory Than Your Neuroscience Textbook

Blocking protein synthesis, which is supposed to erase memory, made a single cell learn faster and remember longer.

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on May 15

The Big Bang Made Two Universes. We Got the One Going Forward.

A math-supported theory proposes that matter exists because the Big Bang created a mirror twin running in reverse. That twin may also explain dark energy.

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on May 14

Hellish Sulfur World Is Off the Charts

A planet 35 light-years away has a sulfur atmosphere that should have burned off billions of years ago. Astronomers had to create a new category to describe it.

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on May 13

No Spin, No Explanation: A Massive Ancient Galaxy Sits Still

A rare non-rotating galaxy spotted by the James Webb telescope. One dramatic collision might explain it.

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on May 11

A World Beyond Pluto Burped Up an Atmosphere

An icy rock out past Neptune is holding onto gas it has no right to hold.

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on May 08

The Pentagon Just Put Its UAP Files Online. Start Watching.

The Pentagon released its first UAP files Friday. The images are murky. The transparency claim is not.

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on May 07

Hummingbird Happy Hour: Flowers Serve Alcoholic Nectar

Flower nectar naturally ferments, and hummingbirds drink enough of it daily to clock the human equivalent of a standard drink. Happy hour, every hour.

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on May 06

A Vampire Star Exploded Twice. The Wreckage Shows Both Blasts.

The wreckage of a double-detonation supernova 60,000 light-years away just gave astronomers the first image of a stellar death that happened twice.

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on May 05

A Planet Had a Growth Spurt to the Tune of Six Billion Tonnes Per Second

A rogue planet with no star just consumed gas and dust at six billion tonnes per second, the highest accretion rate ever recorded for any planetary object.

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on May 04

Every Tree in Every Forest Has Been Doing This During Storms. We Just Couldn't See It.

Scientists suspected it for 70 years. A storm-chasing minivan with a DIY UV telescope just proved forests silently shimmer with electricity every time a thunderstorm rolls through.

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on Apr 28

Unannounced Pentagon UAP Workshop Shapes What Counts as UFO Data

UFO workshop shapes how UAP data is collected, analyzed, and recorded. Transparency and future evidence collection standards could suffer.

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on Apr 23

Alien Life May Be Hiding in the Math

We've been looking for life one planet at a time. A new method says that's the wrong scale entirely.

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