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Gray wolves to be reintroduced to Colorado in unprecedented vote

Voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative to reintroduce wolves into the southern Rockies, where there’s plenty of suitable habitat. A wolf in Yellowstone. Research has shown gray wolves have benefits for the environment, though their reintroduction is controversial, and routinely … Continue reading →

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A new way to visualize General Relativity

How to faithfully represent general relativity ? Is the image of the rubber sheet accurate ? What is the curvature of time ? All these answers in 11 minutes !

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A cyclical, forgetful Universe – Nobel prizewinner Roger Penrose details an astonishing origin hypothesis | Aeon

Since the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965, the Big Bang theory has been the dominant model of our Universe’s origin. In the ensuing decades, an obvious and yet still deeply unsettled question has emerged at the core … Continue reading →

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Five questions about the mutations in the coronavirus in Danish mink | tellerreport.com

Denmark has discovered a new mutant strain of the coronavirus derived from mink farms in the north of the country. The Danish authorities fear that this mutated virus could make a future corona vaccine less effective for humans. As a … Continue reading →

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What Would We Experience If Earth Spontaneously Turned Into A Black Hole?

If a black hole were to appear between the Earth and an observer, the Earth would appear gravitationally lensed in a fashion similar to this, dependent on the Earth’s position relative to the black hole and the observer. If a … Continue reading →

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The End of the World —

…as we know it. The End of the World —

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Fire, Lightning, and Crystals in Space: 20 Years on the ISS

2020 marks two decades of people living and working about the ISS, and from fireballs to microgravity grown crystals, they’ve been keeping busy.

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Obama’s Secret Weapon In The South: Small, Dead, But Still Kickin’

October 10, 201212:49 PM ET ROBERT KRULWICH Look at this map, and notice that deep, deep in the Republican South, there’s a thin blue band stretching from the Carolinas through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. These are the counties that went … Continue reading →

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Why Do Humans Like to Get High?

We’ve told you before that there really isn’t any evidence that animals consume mind-altering substances because they feel good to them. This makes it appear that the fondness for psychoactive drugs is, pretty…human. What is it about our species that … Continue reading →

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Study Finds 5 Distinct Dog Types From 11,000 Years Ago – ScienceBlog.com

An international team of researchers that includes a Texas A&M University professor has studied the lineage of dogs and found that there were at least five different types of dogs as far back as 11,000 years ago. Anna Linderholm, director of … Continue reading →

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I built an acoustic LEVITATOR! Making liquid float on air

Ultrasonic levitation, IN YOUR HOME! Learn how an acoustic levitator works and how to make one. You can learn more about your personal DNA story by going to https://23andMe.com/physicsgirl If you liked this video check out these: Strange Sand Acts … Continue reading →

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What Covid-19 therapies are there?

There is no approved drug against COVID19, but more than 600 interventional clinical trials are ongoing as of beginning of May 2020. Recently the malaria drug chloroquine received widespread attention after a briefing by the US-president Trump and some Lupus … Continue reading →

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