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The European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has found a comet, C/2026 S1, about 1.3bn km from Earth. A program that looks for moving objects picked it out. The comet's orbital period is given differently in different…
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The main camera on NASA's Roman space telescope now produces a better image than NASA required. The improvement followed a shift of the secondary…
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Japan's MMX probe launches to Phobos on 20 October 2026. It will collect at least 10 grams of sand to help decide whether the moons of Mars are…
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The Webb telescope has found that the burst FRB 20240304B comes from a small star-forming galaxy, seen about 3bn years after the Big Bang. Magnetars…
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A new look at a 1999 Hubble spectrum has found niobium around the white dwarf HS 0209+0832. A second-generation planet is only a candidate, and the…
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Researchers have found a skull fragment from an adult Homo erectus, about 2m years old, in the Drimolen cave in South Africa. It adds to the earlier…
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The Institute of Molecular Biology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is setting up a centre for research into cancer and rare diseases. It will…
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Teams in Vienna and China have used thorium-229 in a crystal to keep time with a nuclear transition. The Vienna clock ran for more than 24 hours, but…
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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for optogenetics, a method scientists use to switch individual…
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Miroslav Draganov, from the Nikola Obreshkov maths school in Burgas, is one of two Bulgarian students to win gold at the astronomy and astrophysics…
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A new study finds that five different illnesses, from long COVID to PTSD, trigger similar networks of immune and cell-energy genes, rather than the…
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Sea bass, gilt-head bream and picarel now live in the Black Sea year-round as the water warms, data presented at a Black Sea Advisory Council meeting…
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The James Webb telescope has spotted ammonia in the atmosphere of HATS-6 b, a gas giant circling a red dwarf star 500 light years away. It also…
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An international team including scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has shown how a mutation in the histone H1.4 protein loosens DNA…
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Education Minister Prof. Georgi Valchev proposed three directions to improve discipline: sanctions, profiling of abilities, and organizational…
