At least half of the oxygen in our atmosphere is created by ocean microbes, which also form the basis of marine food webs that support global fisheries. Scientists are now attempting to better understand the microorganisms, utilizing a new type of autonomous underwater vehicle.
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An object originating from outside the Solar System has been detected passing through the Sun's real estate. Temporarily designated as A/2017 U1, the extrasolar asteroid or comet was recorded after approaching from interstellar space and heading out again on a parabolic trajectory.
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For many people, coral bleaching may seem like one of those things that's only happening in distant lands. The truth is, however, that's no longer the case. A recent study has recorded significant coral bleaching in what is likely Hawaii's most popular snorkelling area.
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The Lambda Cold Dark Matter model suggests that 68 percent of the universe is made up of dark energy. But a new study has questioned whether dark energy exists, citing simulations that found that accounting for the structure of the cosmos, the gap in the theory, which dark energy fills, vanishes.
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In 2010, equipped with the biggest astronomical camera in the world, the Pan-STARRS1 telescope began scanning the sky in different wavelengths of light. Now all 2 petabytes of data gathered will become available to the public.
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As part of our regular weekly feature, New Atlas asked two of the HI-SEAS mission participants what their biggest positive and negative surprises were from living in close quarters with other people for a full year in an effort to see what early human life might be like on Mars.
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A team of scientists have re-entered normal life on Earth after spending a year simulating life on Mars. The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) research project set out to study the psychological effects of isolated, confined space missions on astronauts.
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Last week on the slopes of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, six volunteers sealed themselves inside a dome habitat, where they will live in isolation for one year on a simulated space mission.
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Japan's I-400-class subs were so large that they could each carry and launch three Aichi M6A Seiran amphibious aircraft. Now, for the first time since it was scuttled at the end of World War II, one of the sunken subs' aircraft hangars has been photographed.
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A new study has revealed that the Milky Way is a member of a group of local galaxies interconnected within a larger supercluster made up of a myriad other galaxies, all interlinked within a tenuous web of filaments many thousands of light years long.
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