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Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater was twice as big as the rock that killed off dinosaurs
The largest asteroid ever to hit Earth, which slammed into the planet around 2 billion years ago, may have been even more massive than scientists p…
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Wormholes Bend Light Like Black Holes Do — and That Makes it Possible to Find Them, New Study
If wormholes exist, they could magnify the light of distant objects by up to 100,000 times — and that could be the key to finding them, according t…
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Why Some Dinosaurs Evolved to Be Massive While Others Remained Tiny
The body size of some dinosaurs is not linked to their growth rate, according to a new fossil analysis that sheds light on why some like the mighty p…
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Webb's Discovery of Massive Galaxies Challenges Early Universe Theories
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have observed six candidate galaxies with stellar masses as high as 1011 solar masses …
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Physicists Measure Quantum Effects in Energy Structure of Antihydrogen
In 1947, American physicist Willis Lamb and his colleagues observed an incredibly small shift in the energy levels of the hydrogen atom as the atom…
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Lifeforms on Mars Could Evade Detection by Current Instruments, New Study
Lifeforms on Mars could be evading detection by the instruments currently on the planet, scientists have warned. Probes currently being used using to…
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New study reveals spinosaurs' fishing ability is an ancestral trait
Semi-aquatic dinosaurs which roamed southern England 125 million years ago inherited the brain capacity from their ancestors to catch the fish they s…
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Cloning Helps the World's Deadliest Mushroom Invade California, Research Finds
The world's deadliest mushroom has been invading California by cloning itself, new research finds. The poisonous "death cap" mushroom …
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Stunning Newly-discovered Species of Treefrog Found in Ecuador
A magnificent new species of stream frog from the Andes of Ecuador was named after J. R. R. Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth and author of famous fan…
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Dark Photons Could help Solve a Grand Challenge Facing Modern Physics
Dark photons are hypothetical particles that could account for observations that cannot be explained by the Standard Model of particle physics . “We …
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Scientists find first evidence that black holes are the source of dark energy
Supermassive black holes could be the engines driving the expansion of the universe, according to research that proposes a solution to "one of…
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Cosmological Coupling Observed for the First Time by Astrophysicists
Cosmological coupling — a newly-predicted phenomenon in Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity — allows black holes to grow in mass without consuming…
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Da Vinci’s Visualization of Gravity was Centuries Ahead of His Time
Leonardo da Vinci , who lived from 1452 to 1519, was well ahead of the curve in exploring the concept of gravity. It wasn’t until 1604 that Galileo G…
