Science

September 22, 2022

People Are Sharing a Simple Trick to Get Quick Relief for Tinnitus

Have you ever felt like you had a constant ringing in one or both of your ears? This condition is known as tinnitus, and it can be enormously frustrating. Now, there's quick internet trick that claims to stop the irritating sound that's spreading fast. It might be the relief sufferers have been looking for, but the jury is out as to whether it actually works.

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September 14, 2022

Man Finds 82-Foot-Long Dinosaur Fossil in His Backyard

Dinosaur fossils turn up in surprising places. A cow farm in England yielded perfectly preserved fossilized fish. The rocky beaches of the Isle of Skye revealed a new winged reptile species. A Welsh 4-year-old stumbled on footprints frozen in beach sand. For one Portuguese man, the paleontological surprise was in his back garden. Discovered in 2017, the accidentally unearthed fossil of a sauropod dinosaur may be the largest ever found in Europe.

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September 9, 2022

JWST Captures Possibly the Most Perfect Einstein Ring Galaxy Ever Seen

From capturing spectacular spiral galaxies to searching for life on other planets to revealing auroras on Jupiter, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) seems to be unstoppable in finding proof of incredible celestial bodies beyond our stratosphere. The latest of discoveries is the clearest image of possibly the most perfect and most complete Einstein ring galaxy that traveled around 12 billion light-years to get to us.

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August 31, 2022

Astronomers Discover an Ocean-Covered “Super-Earth” Exoplanet

Science-fiction writers have long dreamed of waterworlds—planets covered in endless ocean. Scientists, too, have postulated that these planets exist. Finding and verifying candidates, however, is elusive. The nearby exoplanet named TOI-1452 b may be the most promising of possibilities discovered. In The Astronomical Journal, scientists say its mass indicates that the surface of the exoplanet may be covered in a layer of liquid ocean.

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