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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Astronomy

    A star is torn

    A black hole’s stellar feast is witnessed by telescopes on Earth and in orbit.

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  2. Astronomy

    Ancient scribes may have banked on blinking binary

    For the Egyptians, luck may have been written in the Demon Star.

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  3. Humans

    A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results

    Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing.

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  4. Space

    Earth took a multibillion-year beating

    Asteroids pummeled the planet for billions of years as the Late Heavy Bombardment tapered off, new estimates suggest.

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  5. Astronomy

    Dark matter search turns up empty

    New calculations suggest dearth of invisible substance in solar neighborhood.

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  6. Space

    Hunt for cosmic ray source falls short

    After failure to detect neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts, scientists might need to revise theories.

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  7. Space

    Tall, devilish storm skids across Mars’ surface

    Probe captures 20-kilometer dust devil in action.

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  8. Astronomy

    When solar storms pummel Earth, there’s usually no need to panic

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  9. Space

    Planets’ gravity tidies stellar ring

    The vast dust disk around the star Fomalhaut hints at a pair of orbiting bodies.

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  10. Space

    The Newtonian physics (or not) of Angry Birds Space

    Experts weigh in on the basic principles featured in the game’s universe.

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  11. Physics

    Highlights from the American Physical Society April Meeting, Atlanta

    String theory’s take on the Higgs, newborn pulsars may have iron by-products, and coupled neutrons in beryllium nuclei revealed.

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  12. Astronomy

    New data support Einstein on accelerating universe

    New measurements of distant galaxies support Einstein’s cosmological constant as the explanation for the universe’s accelerating expansion.

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