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"Why Super-Massive Black Holes Formed Less than 1 Billion Years After Big Bang" -- A Mystery

www.dailygalaxy.com - In the early days of the universe, a mere 700 to 800 million years after the Big Bang, most things were small. The first stars and galaxies were just beginning to form and grow in isolated parts of the universe. According to astrophysical theory, ...

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NASA - Meet Kimberly Casey: Studying How Debris Influences Glaciers

www.nasa.gov - NASA glaciologist Kimberly Casey has visited six remote glaciers around the world to study what satellites can tell us about particulate pollution on glaciers, and how these particulates impact glacier melting rates.

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NASA Updates Hazardous Asteroid Count --Only 20-30% of 4700 Objects Found

www.dailygalaxy.com - New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are closely aligned with the plane of our solar system than previous models suggested, coming within 5 million miles (about 8 million kilometers) of Ea...

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Driving home from Albuquerque to Denver last night after the eclipse. Pulled off the highway, looked up.

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Rare neurons discovered in monkey brains

medicalxpress.com - Max Planck scientists discover brain cells in monkeys that may be linked to self-awareness and empathy in humans.

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Researchers aim to assemble the tree of life for all 2 million named species

phys.org - A new initiative aims to build a grand tree of life that brings together everything scientists know about how all living things are related, from the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree.

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Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Jurassic Pigment—A First

news.nationalgeographic.com - Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.

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Lies You've Been Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch

io9.com - We talked with Scripps Institution marine biologist Miriam Goldstein, who has just completed a study of how plastic is changing the ecosystem in the North Pacific Gyre, about myths and realities of the Pacific garbage patch.

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Playing Dead Space for the first time. Ishimura sure isn't helping me along at all..

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Climate Science Disinformers Are Nothing Like Holocaust Deniers

thinkprogress.org - Since I lost many relatives in the Holocaust, I understand all too well the unique nature of that catastrophe. The Holocaust is not an analogue to global warming, which is an utterly different kind of catastrophe, and, obviously, one whose worst i...

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