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Physicist explores the possibility of vestiges of a universe previous to the Big Bang | Peter Moon
Physicist publishes paper in General Relativity and Gravitation proposing to eliminate need for cosmological spacetime singularity and arguing that the current expansion phase was preceded by ...
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Astronomers capture first visiting object from outside our solar system | Alan Fitzsimmons
Credit: Queen's University Belfast Oct. 27, 2017 (Phys.org) -- A Queen's University Belfast scientist is leading an international team in studying a new visitor to our solar system -- the first ...
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Small asteroid or comet 'visits' from beyond the solar system
A/2017 U1 is most likely of interstellar origin. Approaching from above, it was closest to the Sun on Sept. 9. Traveling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second), the comet is headed away ...
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Donald Trump And The Coming Fall Of The American Empire | Jeremy Scahill
Illustration: Elise Swain for The Intercept Famed historian Alfred McCoy interviewed by The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill July 22, 2017 (The Intercept) -- Even as President Donald Trump faces ...
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The low-key passing of Manuel Noriega | Mickey Z.
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian politician and military officer, and longtime CIA agent. He was military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989, when he was removed from power by the ...
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Study shows snakes, thought to be solitary eaters, coordinate hunts | Vladimir Dinets
A new UT study by Vladimir Dinets shows that some snakes coordinate their hunts to increase their chances of success. He studied the Cuban boa, pictured. Credit: Vladimir Dinets May 23, 2017 ...
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Possible signs of life found ten kilometers below seafloor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Credit: Oliver Plümper, Utrecht University April 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found possible evidence of life ten kilometers below the sea floor in the Mariana ...
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Ant agricultural revolution began 30 million years ago in dry, desert-like climate | Proceedings of the Royal Society
From: domyownpestcontrol.comApril 11, 2017 (Phys.Org) -- Millions of years before humans discovered agriculture, vast farming systems were thriving beneath the surface of the Earth. The subterranean ...
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Temperate earth-sized worlds found in extraordinarily rich planetary system
This artist's impression shows the view from the surface of one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. At least seven planets orbit this ultra cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth and they ...
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US is no longer a full democracy, EIU warns | Nyshka Chandran
Jan. 25, 2017 (CNBC) -- The United States has been demoted from a full democracy to a flawed democracy for the first time, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Every year, the firm's ...
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The Unique Human Capacity for War | Michael Brenner
Trench warfare during World War I. One characteristic that sets humans apart from other animals is the capability to organize sustained warfare against members of their own species, a troubling fact ...
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