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When Your Palace Crumbles Overnight: Being Rejected from PhD Programs (A Personal Experience)
Are you shaking every time you get an email notification on your phone? Did you expect that email to be the special one you had worked so hard for but it turned out to be the one you were terrified of receiving? If yes, this bite is for you.
Does Taylor Swift sing about the Gorgeous interstellar medium?
In her song Gorgeous, Taylor Swift sings “you should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong.” She must be singing about interstellar medium!
A Brown Dwarf in the Desert
Today’s authors found a unique occupant of the “brown dwarf desert,” on an extremely close orbit around its M dwarf host.
A new kind of changing-look AGN?
Today’s paper takes a look at the unusual X-ray properties of a changing-look AGN.
Rewriting the geologic history of Mars one megaflood at a time
The rocks explored by the Curiosity Rover in Gale Crater are sure signs of the past presence of water on the red planet, but how did they form? The prevailing view has been a long-lasting lake environment, potentially suitable for life, but today’s paper offers a much more dramatic explanation.
H0 tension: South Pole-arization edition with SPT-3G
Today’s paper takes us on a journey to the South Pole for the latest episode in the H0 tension mystery. Can ΛCDM model extensions finally crack the case?
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