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Shedding Light on the Remarkable Properties of Black Holes
Many mysteries surround black holes, but new research led by the Niels Bohr Institute has come up with groundbreaking...
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Ancient Galaxy May Be Most Distant Ever Seen
Astronomers have spotted seven galaxies that existed just a few hundred million years after the universe’s birth, including one...
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DNA From Prehistoric Yeast Cells Reconstructed
How does evolution innovate? We exist because our ancestors have had the ability to adapt successfully to changes in...
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Scientists Search for Life Under Antarctic Ice
With the temperature at a balmy midsummer -17c, drilling has started in Antarctica in an attempt to find evidence...
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Earth Has a Couple of ‘Near’ Misses
Over the past couple of days, two asteroids ‘2012 XE54’ and ‘4179 Toutatis’ passed close to Earth. 4179 Toutatis,...
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Do We Live in a Computer Simulation?
A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact...
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Are There Planets Better at Supporting Life Than Earth?
There is, in this crazy world, one thing we know for sure: Our world is the world. Our planet...
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New Chemical Reaction May Explain Star Formation, Evolution, Death
University of North Dakota scientist Mark Hoffmann’s version of Star Search goes a long way — a very long...
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1990 Climate Change Predictions Turn Out to Be Accurate
In a blow to those people who believe that global warming predictions are just a lot of hot air,...
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Monkeys Show Why It’s Hard to Prove Ancient Human Interbreeding
A bundle of recent genetic studies have suggested that modern humans had sex with Neanderthals thousands of years ago...