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Earth

Two lightning megaflashes shattered distance and duration records

Satellite data show that the two extreme bolts, both appearing over South America, more than doubled the previous records.

Space

Colliding black holes may have created a surprising flare of light

A flare-up after a gravitational wave outburst may be the first sighting of light from colliding black holes.

Paleontology

Fossil discoveries suggest the earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs

Finding soft-shelled dinosaur eggs in the fossil record for the first time has scientists rethinking how dinosaur eggs evolved.

Particle Physics

Physicists spot a new class of neutrinos from the sun

Researchers with the Borexino experiment in Italy have detected neutrinos produced in the secondary fusion process taking place in the sun’s core.