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Andromeda’s Bling: Tiny Greedy Quasar Found
When we talk of quasars, we think: early universe; angry black holes in the centers of galaxies; gobs of...
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Higgs Data Reveals Fundamental Structure of Matter
The 12 matter particles we know about are all the types there are, according to researchers analysing CERN data....
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Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed
It may have something to do with all those Brontosaurus burgers everyone’s favorite modern stone-age family ate, but when...
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‘Marine’ Fossils May Instead Represent Early Land Dwellers
The fossils of various frondlike and sacklike organisms that supposedly lived at the bottom of ancient oceans may actually...
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Primate Species: New Slow Loris Found in Borneo
A new species of small nocturnal primate has been discovered by scientists in Borneo. The primate is a type of...
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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,...