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NASA Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our...
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How Order Arises From the Random Motion of Particles in the Cosmos
One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion...
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Insects a Prime Driver in Plant Evolution and Diversity
Take a good look around on your next nature hike. Not only are you experiencing the wonders of the...
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Human-Neandertal Mating Gets a New Date
A new study suggests that present-day Europeans share more genes with now-extinct Neandertals than do living Africans, at least...
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Curiosity Set to Scoop Sand Sample That Could Reveal Ancient Life
NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting ready to take its first scoop of Martian soil. The analysis of the soil...
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Astronomers Discover Star Racing Around Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy
UCLA astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of...
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Most Precise Measurement of Universe’s Expansion Achieved
The most precise measurement ever made of the speed of the universe’s expansion is in, thanks to NASA’s Spitzer...
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Skulls Engineered for Hard Knocks
The braincase of a skull may well be, as advertised, a strongly built and cleverly engineered structure, but listening...
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Life Abhors Arsenic, Even In Extremis
Another study casts doubt on the famous arsenic-life findings, showing the bacterium actually grabs phosphorus wherever it can be...
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Did Eating Meat Make Us Human?
Fragments of a 1.5-million-year-old skull from a child recently found in Tanzania suggest early hominids weren’t just occasional carnivores...