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Thorne-Żytkow objects (TŻOs) resemble red supergiants such as Betelgeuse. (ESO/VLT) A bizarre hybrid star has been discovered by American, British and Chilean astronomers. Using the Magellan Clay...
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3D Printer in Space, Antibiotic Laced Pesticides May Trigger Allergies, Milky...
3-D printer that will soon be delivered to the International Space Station. Items the 3-D printer created is perched on its top side. (NASA) NASA Hopes 3D Printer Technology Will Prove Useful in Space...
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Science Scanner – Big Asteroid Won’t Hit Us, Artificial Skin Detects...
Asteroid impacting Earth (NASA) Huge Asteroid Won’t Hit Us After All The NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office says that we can all breathe easier now: Reports indicating that a gigantic asteroid...
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Meteorite Reveals Early Solar System Information, Greenland’s Ice Sheet is...
Example of a Pallasite meteorite (Steve Jurvetson/Creative Commons) Meteorite’s Magnetic Memory Reveals its Secret Message A team of British geologists has developed a new way to learn something about...
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Science Scanner – A Fish for Your Wounds? US Megadroughts; Help for MRI Stress
Soil moisture 30 cm below ground projected through 2095 for high emissions scenario RCP 8.5. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) “Megadroughts” May Impact Parts of US in the Late 21st Century...
View ArticleUniverse Dying?; Seals Use Voice Recognition; Bacteria Helps Smokers Quit
Astronomers Say our Universe is Dying Is our universe slowly dying? An international group of astronomers, who studied more than 200,000 galaxies and precisely measured the energy produced within a...
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Ancient Dolphin; CPR is More Successful on TV; Blueberries Make Natural...
Artistic reconstruction of Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil dolphin from Panama, feeding on a flatfish. (Julia Molnar/Smithsonian Institution) New Extinct Species of River Dolphin Discovered...
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Where Does Rain Go; Ocean Organics Form Cloud Ice; Hot Peppers May Fight Cancer
A windshield wiper at work on a rainy day (Basheer Tome via Flickr/Creative Commons) What Happens to Precipitation After it Falls to Earth? Have you ever wondered what happens to rain or snow once it...
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Oxygen Found in Comet’s Atmosphere; Making Robots Walk Like Humans
Rosetta’s NavCaM snapped this shot of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 20, 2014 ((C) ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0) Scientists Find Oxygen in Comet’s Atmosphere A couple of days ago...
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New Tool to Find ET; Detecting Spoiled Meat; Usernames Reveal Personality
Aliens? (Interdimensional Guardians/Creative Commons) NASA Working On a New Tool to Search for ET NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California is developing what they’re calling a...
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Fast Radio Burst Source Found; High Tech Fishing; Stress and Heart Health
The Parkes 64m Radio Telescope in Australia (Binarysequence/Wikimedia Commons) Astronomers Locate Source of a Fast Radio Burst Nearly a decade ago a pair of astronomers were going through some...
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Black Hole Mass Measured; Ice Sheets on Mars; Saliva Diagnoses Disease
Combined image of NGC 1332 shows the central disk of gas surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. (UC Irvine) ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ), NASA/ESA Hubble; Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy...
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Dark Matter Galaxy; Making Bland Tasty; Ouchless Insulin
The dark galaxy Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is a wide view of the galaxy and a close-up on the right. The massive galaxy consists almost entirely of Dark Matter. (Pieter Van Dokkum, Roberto...
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Radioactive Material Found in Fracking Waste; Searching Space for H20
Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills. (American Chemical Society) Radioactive Isotopes Found in Fracking Waste US oil and natural gas...
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Science Scanner – A Fish for Your Wounds? US Megadroughts; Help for MRI Stress
Soil moisture 30 cm below ground projected through 2095 for high emissions scenario RCP 8.5. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) “Megadroughts” May Impact Parts of US in the Late 21st Century...
View ArticleUniverse Dying?; Seals Use Voice Recognition; Bacteria Helps Smokers Quit
Astronomers Say our Universe is Dying Is our universe slowly dying? An international group of astronomers, who studied more than 200,000 galaxies and precisely measured the energy produced within a...
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Ancient Dolphin; CPR is More Successful on TV; Blueberries Make Natural...
Artistic reconstruction of Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil dolphin from Panama, feeding on a flatfish. (Julia Molnar/Smithsonian Institution) New Extinct Species of River Dolphin Discovered...
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Where Does Rain Go; Ocean Organics Form Cloud Ice; Hot Peppers May Fight Cancer
A windshield wiper at work on a rainy day (Basheer Tome via Flickr/Creative Commons) What Happens to Precipitation After it Falls to Earth? Have you ever wondered what happens to rain or snow once it...
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Oxygen Found in Comet’s Atmosphere; Making Robots Walk Like Humans
Rosetta’s NavCaM snapped this shot of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 20, 2014 ((C) ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0) Scientists Find Oxygen in Comet’s Atmosphere A couple of days ago...
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New Tool to Find ET; Detecting Spoiled Meat; Usernames Reveal Personality
Aliens? (Interdimensional Guardians/Creative Commons) NASA Working On a New Tool to Search for ET NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California is developing what they’re calling a...
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