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Did Civilization Rise Because of a Comet Impact?

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Human beings unexpectedly changed around 13,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer societies began to transform their lifestyle quickly. They began to construct permanent settlements and focused their efforts on farming. The earliest man-made megalithic structures around were also constructed around this period. Was a comet collision the reason behind this fast advancement of human civilization? An international […]

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The Largest Galaxy Ever Seen Has Just Been Discovered

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Astronomers have just discovered an absolute beast of a galaxy Hiding some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching five megaparsecs into space. That is 16.3 million light-years long and represents the biggest recognized structure of galactic origin. The finding highlights our poor understanding of these colossi and what drives their

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Sick Dinosaur May Have Had the Earliest Known Cough

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Peculiar growths on dinosaur neckbones hint at old infection It takes much force to cough a loogie up a nearly 4-meter-long neck, but that is what one dinosaur had to do. The Guardian reports that paleontologists have discovered unusual nodules on the neck of a 150-million-year-old sauropod, proof of the first known respiratory infection in

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DNA From Child Burials Shows ‘Exceptionally Different’ Human Landscape in Ancient Africa

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Children’s skeletons give genomes more than 3000 years old Central Africa is far too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive– or so scientists assumed. Currently, the bones of four children buried thousands of years earlier in a rock shelter in the grasslands of Cameroon have given enough DNA for scientists to examine. It

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Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life

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Pleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost live and eat well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later. Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the very first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost and subsequently thawed out and resuscitated in Petri dishes. These

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Parker Solar Probe Captures Its First Images of Venus’ Surface in Visible Light

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light pictures of the surface of Venus from space Surrounded in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually hidden from view. However, in two current flybys of the Earth, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the whole nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum– the

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Inducing Room-Temperature Superconductivity: New Opportunities Brought up by Research Using Light

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Finding a breakthrough Similar to how people discover more about themselves by moving beyond their comfort zones, scientists can discover more about a system by making it unstable and observing what occurs as it settles into a stable state. When it comes to a superconducting material referred to as yttrium barium copper oxide or YBCO,

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Scientists Create Odd “Domain Walls” in Laboratory

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Controlled for the very first time, the quantum phenomenon might propose opportunities for technology. University of Chicago researchers have actually been able to generate a new type of quantum object at will in the laboratory: “domain walls.” The discovery can help researchers better comprehend exotic quantum particles and suggest avenues for new technology in the

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NASA Telescope Idea Could Spot Vegetation on Distant Exoplanets

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NASA states it could detect “surface features” and even “hints of habitability” on distant planets. NASA is financing research for a conceptual telescope called a “solar gravitational lens” (SGL) that can allow us to observe remote exoplanets at a fantastic resolution– a futuristic endeavor that might assist discovery at last if we are alone in

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