The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy battling titanic forces appearing on galactic scales in space. This is NGC 4654, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). It is classified as “intermediate” because its overall shape falls between spiral galaxies that have a bar in their
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You have full access to this article through your institution. Hello Nature Readers, would you like to receive this report in your inbox for free every day? Register here. Whatever its purpose, preparation for this body-slamming behavior requires impressive cognitive sophistication, the study authors write. (Kathryn Ayres) Orcas (Orcinus orca) have been seen charging at
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The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, led by US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr, aims to “tackle chronic diseases, improve nutrition and reduce healthcare costs.” To achieve these laudable goals, members of the MAHA movement have set out to reform American health policies on issues such as nutrition and vaccines and what
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The El Niño weather pattern that is strengthening in the Pacific Ocean is on track to be the largest in at least 150 years, researchers said today during a press conference. If the monstrous forecasts they presented come true, the heat surge that El Niño will unleash from the ocean, combined with warming due to
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The Rosetta Stone helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.Credit: Juan Naharro Giménez/Getty Humanity may have once spoken many more languages than today, with tens of thousands in use between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago. This far exceeds the more than 7,500 unique languages currently used around the world. The findings, published July 23 in
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Historically, Castle Valley in central Utah has been a coal center, with active mining operations on the slopes of the Wasatch Plateau to the west since the late 19th century. A different energy development came to the region in June 2026, when a large solar and battery storage plant came online in the sunny valley
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