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Look at the sky next week to see the Tauride …

[ad_1] Amateur astronomers and sky watchers will need to keep an eye on the sky next week as the taurid meteor shower can lead to impressive fireballs. Fireballs are a technical term for extremely bright meteors that roam the atmosphere. For those unfamiliar, Taurids are divided into Northern Taurids and …

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Duck-billed dinosaurs crossed the sea to Africa

[ad_1] A team of paleontologists announces the discovery of a hadrosaur, or “duck-billed dinosaur”, in Africa. This interesting preview brings out the even more intriguing idea that these dinosaurs crossed the sea to reach this continent. The Hadrosauridae, better known as “duck-billed dinosaurs”, are a very common family of ornithopod …

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Fixed a longstanding conundrum about glacial lake flooding

[ad_1] A long-standing secret of the glacial lake is the floods or “Jokulhlaups” that arise suddenly and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps. Scientists have long studied the evolution of these floods, which are among the largest in the world. These floods affect the movement of some glaciers and pose …

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Bursts of radio waves in space can come from the nuclei of …

[ad_1] This is an internal scientific story. Astronomers have seen a handful of extremely intense and short radio waves since 2007, but they have yet to determine exactly what creates them. The explosions have sparked all sorts of speculations about their origins, from exploding or colliding stars to alien civilizations. …

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How cellular processes round and dispose of damaged proteins

[ad_1] Photo credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent paper with the findings, which Eric Strieter, lead author at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, describes as “incredibly surprising,” he and his chemistry lab team report that they have discovered how an enzyme called UCH37 regulates the system of waste management …

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