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Astronomers’ World-First Discovery: Twin Stars Trapped in Galactic Black Hole Orbit
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAt the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly …
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Science Unmasked
Around 9,000 Species Have Already Gone Extinct in Australia and We’ll Likely Lose Another This Week — New Study
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesMore than 95 percent of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones — spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms, …
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Astronomers Have Pinpointed the Origin of Mysterious Repeating Radio Bursts From Space
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesSlowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022. …
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To Map the Vibration of the Universe, Astronomers Built a Detector the Size of the Galaxy
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesUsing the largest gravitational wave detector ever made, we have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the …
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The Pink Elephant Test: What Your Visual Imagination Predicts About Your Ability to Control Your Thoughts
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesTell a man he shouldn’t think of a pink elephant and he can’t get that beast out of …
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Air Is an Overlooked Source of Nutrients — Evidence Shows We Can Inhale Some Vitamins
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesYou know that feeling you get when you take a breath of fresh air in nature? There may …
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A 4.45 Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWater is ubiquitous on Earth — about 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water …
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DNA Evidence Rewrites Story of People Buried in Pompeii Eruption
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesResearchers from the University of Florence, Harvard University, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig …
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How Do Brains Coordinate Activity? From Fruit Flies to Monkeys, We Discovered This Universal Principle
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt …