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The project, released just before Coachella, blended a diverse range of rhythms such as pop, Brazilian funk, R&B and bossa nova -- a mix that, for Sonza, is the essence of Brazil.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
It unexpectedly held onto its outer layers for more than 50 days before releasing them, offering the clearest evidence yet for a delayed expulsion in a nova.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
Pair the bagels with hand sliced nova salmon, cream cheese, and a slice of tomato for a true feast.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
“Oganesson” is constructed around his delicate strummed riff, which recalls the ease of bossa nova, and it has an airiness and jazziness not found elsewhere on the record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The nova of 1572 was not the cause of the Scientific Revolution, any more than the bullet which killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 was the cause of the First World War.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"They are so dense that when they accrete material on their surface they can undergo runaway nuclear reactions, which we detect as novae."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2025
There is not yet enough observational data for chlorine to confirm this and it provides a testable hypothesis to check the validity of the ONe novae model.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
What if these novae were actually the remnants of technological civilizations like ours, which had in fact discovered the dreaded "detonator" referenced by Rutherford?
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
"I was looking for a much more common type of outburst called novae."
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2023
The super-bright novae are called, logically enough, supernovae.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Infrared data can yield signals of colder material, in contrast to bright visible light signals that often come from novas and other powerful events.
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2023
Strongly influenced by the subtle bossa novas sung by João Gilberto, Ms. Costa began performing in her teens.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
There was a kind of cosmic rightness: two novas exploding together.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
In the 1980s, Shara had predicted that novas, novalike systems and dwarf novas were the same stars in different stages of an eruption cycle.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2017
Arguments over the location of novas and comets in the heavens thus continued even after 1610, after which date the traditional Ptolemaic system was abandoned by all competent participants.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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