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Meet Our Oldest Common Ancestor: A 555 Million-Year-Old Worm-Like Creature
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
The honor goes to a minuscule worm-like creature that lived on the seafloor 555 million years ago. Researchers led by geologists at the University of California (UC) Riverside have identified it as the first known bilaterian, an organism with a...
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Earth's Ozone Layer Is Healing, Bringing Some Good News on Global Wind Movement
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
The ozone layer above Antarctica has recovered so much, it's actually stopped many worrying changes in the Southern Hemisphere's atmosphere. If you're looking for someone to thank, try the world at large.
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What scientists learned after firing a small cannonball into a near-Earth asteroid
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft fired a copper cannonball a little bigger than a tennis ball into a near-Earth asteroid named Ryugu to learn about its composition.
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There Are Infinite Rings of Light Around Black Holes
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
Photons captured by the immense gravity around the black hole form an intricate structure of light rings between the accretion disk and the event horizon boundary.
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Australian Engineers Just Accidentally Solved a 58-Year-Old Quantum Mystery
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen predicted an exciting new phenomenon called nuclear electric resonance. But no one has been able to demonstrate it in action – until now.
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Enzyme that helps bind father’s DNA with mother’s found
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
In pioneering research that can help explain infertility cases of unknown cause, researchers at the University of California-San Diego’s School of Medicine have discovered that an enzyme called ‘SPRK1’ leads the first step in untangling a sperm’s...
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Ancient Supermassive Black Hole Has Its Particle Beam Aimed Right at Earth
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
Astronomers have discovered the existence of a supermassive black hole that looks to be the oldest and most distant of its kind we've ever encountered – and it just happens to be aiming its bright particle beam directly at Earth.
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We Actually Live Inside a Huge Bubble in Space, Physicist Proposes
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
What if the Earth, the galaxy, and all the galaxies near us were enclosed in a weirdly empty bubble? This scenario could resolve some longstanding questions about the nature of the universe.
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What is the Fifth Force?
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. March 2020
The researchers weren’t looking for the new particle, though. Instead, it popped up as an anomaly in their detector back in 2015 while they were searching for signs of dark matter. The oddity didn’t draw much attention at first. But eventually, a...
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Scientists discover animal that doesn't need oxygen to survive
By Meril Jeffery John.J 29. February 2020
Scientists have discovered an animal that does not need oxygen to produce energy needed for its survival, a finding that changes one of science's assumptions about the animal world.