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Supermassive black hole caught shredding star bit.ly/JEwdW0
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Scientists confirm there was a space hurricane above the North Pole in 2014. It lasted for about eight hours and rained electrons instead of water. sciencefocus.com/news/space-…
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Stanford virtual reality experiment let people experience life a a cow #FlashbackFriday bit.ly/2QX3LXi
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The U.S. now has the Most Confirmed Covid-19 Coronavirus Cases in the World
- U.S. 81, 425
- China 81, 285
- Italy 80, 539
(source: BNO News)
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NASA has released new visualizations of a black hole that includes multiple animations bit.ly/2lCTq7z
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Sheep with huge matted coat found wandering in Australian forest gets sheared
Meet Baarack, a wild sheep rescued from a forest in Australia, yielding fleece weighing more than 35 kilograms reut.rs/2ZLiB8j
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The Doomsday Clock has been moved forward by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight. thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo…
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Photo of hungry Nautiluses eating chicken nitter.app/PaulGAllen/status/1861… (via @PaulGAllen)
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Researchers say the Hypatia stone found in southwest Egypt contains mineral compounds "that are not known to occur on Earth, elsewhere in our solar system, or in known meteorites or comets." bit.ly/2mf4jsm
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The Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 winners have been announced. Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty were named the overall winners for their deep space photograph, Andromeda, Unexpected. rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy…
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NASA releases video showing a year of life on Earth as viewed by the EPIC camera bit.ly/2a3k6bP
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NASA shares new images of Saturn's moon Pan. The moon's shape has been compared to a ravioli, fried egg & empanada bit.ly/2mNz4GU
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Chinese researchers inserted a tardigrade gene into human embryonic stem cells. The researchers claim the modified cells showed "supernatural resistance against radiation" scmp.com/news/china/science/…
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Astronomers find three potentially habitable planets 40 light-years from Earth bit.ly/1VHrVU6
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Archaeologists discover 600BC palace under shrine destroyed by Isil in Mosul telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02…
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Chandrayaan-3 moon rover Pragyan found traces of sulfur in the soil on the lunar south pole. The rover uses a laser to vaporize soil samples and analyze emitted light wavelengths. space.com/chandrayaan-3-sulf…
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Scientists have discovered fossilized dinosaur brain tissue for the first time. bit.ly/2e1Wu6l
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Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope. The image is of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of galaxy Messier 87. bit.ly/2Ks1Xpp
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured two new views of NGC 604, a star-forming region of the Triangulum galaxy. sciencespacerobots.com/jwst-…
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Quasar J0529-4351 is described as the Most Luminous Object Ever Observed
- Accretion disc seven light-years in diameter
- powered by a black hole growing in mass by one Sun per day
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Study finds common swift can fly for nearly ten consecutive months without ever landing bit.ly/2eQtjEz
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Report: The Maya civilization used chocolate as money bit.ly/2KNuOn3
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NASA describes exoplanet Kepler-452b as Earth's bigger, older cousin bit.ly/1IhD2ao
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Fisherman kept world's largest pearl under his bed for ten years. It weighs 75 pounds bit.ly/2caJCwv
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Researchers find most people prefer to start with the ears when eating a chocolate bunny bit.ly/2nziXyn
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Researchers envision four climate change scenarios for civilization-planet systems bit.ly/2xS86oO
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Lake on Saturn's moon Titan may be over 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep #krakenmare space.com/saturn-moon-titan-…
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Newfound species of pygmy seahorse discovered in Japan is the size of a grain of rice on.natgeo.com/2OqsyjK
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The Scale of the Universe 2 - shows how big and small objects in our Universe are bit.ly/xdFcZT
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World's most sensitive dark matter detector comes up empty after completing its search bit.ly/2aAMhKN
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Purple orb discovered on ocean floor in Channel Islands could be a new nudibranch species bit.ly/2acd7NQ
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Scientists discover the first species of giant centipede that can swim and walk underwater bit.ly/292Io26
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Scientists at the University of Leeds have developed an AI system that can detect patients at risk of having a heart attack in the next 12 months based on eye scans. They say it has an accuracy of between 70% and 80% in the release bit.ly/3IJBAoo
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Fossil of new pterosaur species named Allkauren koi discovered in South America bit.ly/2cjdyFj
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Scientists exploring a remote region of Antarctica have discovered fossil evidence of a 260 million-year-old forest bit.ly/2yXticU
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Stephen Hawking warns AI "may replace humans altogether" or kill humans unintentionally ind.pn/2z9M8dy
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Planet found in habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun bit.ly/2bG10Ge
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Scientists find brain is directly connected to the immune system through vessels previously thought not to exist bit.ly/1FBmEB9
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New plant species discovered on Japan's Yakushima island bit.ly/1R6BPNB
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Anger a crow and it will remember your face for over five years and warn its friends about you. http://bit.ly/jKEl3O
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Newly discovered Mirrorbellies may communicate using light that shines from their bellies bit.ly/2bDVyCA
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Hubble observes stormy weather on Jupiter. Video shows a full rotation of Jupiter. It was creating using snapshots taken by Hubble on January 5-6 sciencespacerobots.com/hubbl…
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Silver Boa snake species discovered on uninhabited island in the southern Bahamas bit.ly/289B8cg
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New analysis of data from NASA's 1976 Viking mission suggests life was found on Mars bit.ly/InUmNF
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Klingon newt and Rainbow snake among new species discovered in Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia bit.ly/2hSLEzy
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Google's new headphones, called Pixel Buds, provide real-time translation in 40 languages bit.ly/2fMnmaE
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Potentially habitable rocky worlds orbiting ultracool dwarf star 40 light years from Earth bit.ly/29UVGkR
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Two year study finds squirrels organize their nut stashes by variety, quality and possibly even preference bit.ly/2ysJX6n
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Galapagos finches caught in act of becoming new species bbc.in/2A6r9Ls
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Caltech astrophysicists built a cosmic computer simulation that shows how black holes grow and evolve. They found magnetic fields play a much larger role than previously thought. sciencespacerobots.com/video…
ALT Still from Caltech cosmic simulation of a supermassive black hole surrounded by accretion disk. Credit: Caltech/Phil Hopkins group
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Researchers capture footage of the Ruby Seadragon in the wild for the first time bit.ly/2jw1VeC
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Khinjaria acuta: Ancient giant sea lizard had powerful jaws and dagger-like teeth. Dr. Nick Longrich says it is "yet another terrifying predatory mosasaur from Morocco." sciencespacerobots.com/khinj…
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Newly discovered golden frog named after El Dorado, the legendary lost city of gold bit.ly/21zRxjS
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Archaeologists discover a carved stone crocodile at an ancient site in Oaxaca, Mexico bit.ly/2bOniGa
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Bird spends hours admiring itself: Bush stone-curlew at Queensland University stares at its reflection in glass door theguardian.com/world/2017/m…
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Report: Massive cockroach genome includes code for neutralizing toxins, regrowing limbs and a thousand genes for detecting food and chemicals bit.ly/2INoSXs
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Director of Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) says its possible a mothership is releasing small probes in our solar system in paper co-authored by Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department bit.ly/3ZMFpBW
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TRAPPIST-1: NASA telescope finds seven Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone around a single star bit.ly/2m8Sarv
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Astronomers think Planet 9 was originally from another solar system before our sun stole it bit.ly/1TXUvP8
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Strange ancient creature dubbed Kite Runner carried its young in tethered capsules bit.ly/1qnJRq3
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Briny ice lake discovered beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars. Discovered using MARSIS instrument, a low-frequency radar on the Mars Express spacecraft cnn.it/2mK4Za3
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Injected oxygen microparticles could keep people alive after they stop breathing bit.ly/MY0e4D
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Fossil of giant extinct burrowing bat found in New Zealand. The bat has been named Vulcanops jennyworthyae bit.ly/2mlYKbL
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Recently discovered Dragonfly 44 galaxy consists almost entirely of dark matter bit.ly/2bsX1Kr
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Scientists have determined that zebrafish want to hang out with moving 3-D robotic models of themselves bit.ly/2fdfdhs
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MIT Technology Review on Deep Learning AI: No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do bit.ly/2nS1ykt
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Forensic scientists develop new method that provides exact time of death for up to 10 days after a person has died bit.ly/1CpZHoo
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FoldiMate aims to sell robotic laundry folding machine by 2018 with $700 to $850 price tag bit.ly/1UHkb1g
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