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Big History Gets Bigger
A report on the inaugural meeting of the International Big History Association in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Mysterious Black Hole Type Perplexes, Bewilders
Billions of times the mass of our own sun, so-called massive black holes present a baffling mystery with clues...
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Star’s ‘Cry’ Heralds New Era for Testing Relativity
Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a...
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Celebrating Impractical Physicists
Do you think cutting-edge scientists should earn as much as star athletes, celebrity artists or Wall Street bankers? The...
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Sediment Cores From Antarctic Seabed Reveal Ancient Rain Forest
Drilling of the seabed off Antarctica has revealed that rainforest grew on the frozen continent 52 million years ago,...
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Did Mayas Use 2,500-Year-Old Chocolate as Condiment or Beverage?
Archaeologists say they have found traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate in the Yucatan peninsula, the first time...
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Higgs Boson Results From LHC ‘Get Even Stronger’
The Higgs boson-like particle whose discovery was announced on 4 July looks significantly more certain to exist. The particle...
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Colossal Human Sculpture Unearthed in Turkey
Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an enormous stone sculpture of a Neo-Hittite warrior-king daring from the first millennium...
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Did Expelled Stars Reionize the Ancient Universe?
Hot stars booted out of their galactic homes may be responsible for creating the conditions that led to today's...
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Want to Live on Mars? Here’s Your Chance
Just as NASA’s latest rover prepares to land on the surface of Mars, one Dutch company is looking to...
