[ad_1] Earth’s second minimaon was the size of a small car and arrived within 8,100 miles of Earth at its closest approach, new data reveals Earth captured its second low in February, but new data reveals the details Experts found that the 2020 CD3 was the size of a small …
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[ad_1] Californian natives gathered in a cave – under a painting of a hallucinogenic plant – to get high about five centuries ago, a study concluded. Researchers from the United Kingdom and the United States found that a spiral art form smeared on a cave wall south of Bakersfield resembled …
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[ad_1] Government workers had such a close encounter in the Utah desert. A crew from the State Department of Natural Resources was aboard a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter when they spotted a mysterious monolith protruding from the earth last week. About 10-12 feet tall, the shiny metal object …
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[ad_1] The Milky Way is slowly “dismembered” by the gravity of a nearby galaxy, causing it to twist and deform with “extreme violence” The researchers created statistical models to monitor the speed of the stars in the Milky Way They used this to calculate the impact of the Large Magellanic …
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[ad_1] Complex life evolved on Earth 100 million years LATER than previously thought, scientists say – after discovering that 635-million-year-old fossils were produced by algae, NOT animals Researchers recreated the chemical traces found in ancient rocks in the laboratory Those rocks contained chemicals similar to those produced by modern sponges …
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[ad_1] Floods of unimaginable size once swept through the Gale crater on Mars some 4 billion years ago, raising the possibility that life once existed on the red planet. Researchers from Jackson State University, Cornell University, and the University of Hawaii collaborated with NASA to examine sediment data captured by …
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[ad_1] A new report challenges the theory that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a hominid who lived more than 6 million years ago, was our first known human ancestor. French paleontologists discovered a Sahelanthropus in Chad nearly two decades ago. Dubbing it “Toumai”, they announced the creature as an early biped, with a …
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[ad_1] NASA reveals that sending first woman and next man to the moon by 2024 is “ unlikely ” due to lack of funds, scheduling problems and the impact of coronavirus on operations NASA’s Artemis mission would have started in 2024, but a report says otherwise The report cites a …
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[ad_1] Some regions of the Amazon rainforest are more resilient to climate change than previously thought and may actually BENEFIT from warmer temperatures, according to a study. Researchers studied how changes in soil and air humidity affect photosynthesis Water stress was thought to have a largely negative impact This, in …
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[ad_1] Capuchin monkeys were first observed eating the remains of a newborn monkey, a rare example of cannibalism among New World primates. Researchers studying Panamanian white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica witnessed a 10-day-old baby fall from a tree. The mother attempted to save the offspring, but she soon died and …
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