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For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

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Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

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A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...