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The Sacramento Juneteenth Festival 2025 was a celebration of freedom and culture, honoring community champions and featuring soulful gospel and music.
This is the filament of X-ray-emitting hot gas that had not been seen before, and contains a chunk of “missing” matter. (Courtesy: ESA/XMM-Newton and ISAS/JAXA) New observations support the idea that ...
When these particles—called cosmic rays—collide with our upper atmosphere, the impact produces a spray of particles that includes muons. Earth’s natural muon drizzle poses no threat.
A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Astronomers have observed a rare and spectacular phenomenon dating back over 11 billion years: a quasar, the hyperactive core of a distant galaxy, ...
Investment is a defining word of the moment. Last year’s inaugural ‘investment round’ for WHO1 followed calls from its Director-General to see ‘health not as a cost, but an investment’.2 The Lancet ...
The last time the report was released, in 2018, using a different methodology, the Health Department identified a respiratory virus with pandemic potential as the city’s most severe threat, and ...
The strange radio pulses were detected between 2016 and 2018 by NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed ...
Impossible signal from deep beneath Antarctic ice baffles physicists Date: June 16, 2025 Source: Penn State Summary: A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre ...
Global nursing and health leaders have called on governments across the world to invest in nursing on an international scale, for the sake of achieving universal health coverage.
A cosmic particle detector designed to pick up rays from space instead recorded a series of bizarre signals from under the ice. Penn State, whose scientists are part of the international research ...
A balloon-borne experiment over Antarctica, designed to detect cosmic radio waves, has instead picked up bizarre signals that appear to be coming from deep within the ice.