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- NASA’s X-ray eye caught a jet shooting from the first black hole we ever photographed—apparently fame hasn’t tamed the beast
- NASA’s Webb and Hubble teamed up on Terzan 5, and the detail that matters is that they proved it isn’t a globular star cluster at all but a surviving relic from the Milky Way’s earliest formation
- The fastest subatomic messenger in the universe lands on the ice of Antarctica and points toward an “invisible” galaxy 11,000 million light-years away
- Some workers were laying asphalt right in the middle of the road in Logan Township when, suddenly, they saw the national bald eagle fly by; it had a few burns, but what really impressed them was what happened next
- Water dating back 2 billion years has been discovered 3 km underground in a Canadian mine: literally a sip from the Precambrian, older than almost all complex life
- The candy that was said to predict success is losing its power: a study of 918 children shows that, after taking into account environmental factors and early skills, patience at age 4 has barely any effect on grades—just one-tenth of a point—by age 15
- Neither the U.S. nor Iran: Spain discovers a rare-earth gold mine capable of meeting 33% of Europe’s needs and revolutionizes the geopolitical landscape of the green transition
- A cub named Sparta, which remained frozen in the permafrost for 32,000 years, provides virtually intact DNA and confirms that cave lions constituted a distinct lineage, with brain, visual, and circulatory traits, that never set foot on the African savanna
