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New Analysis Indicates Bones Are From American Pilot Amelia Earhart

Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely those of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a UT researcher. Richard Jantz, professor emeritus of anthropology and director emeritus of UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center, re-examined seven bone measurements conducted in 1940 by physician D. W. ...

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Aviator Amelia Earhart.

Astronomers Discover All Galaxies Rotate Once Every Billion Years

Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are. The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of a day, and a complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun gives us a year. “It’s not Swiss watch precision,” said Professor Gerhardt Meurer ...

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The Mysterious Purple Lights in the Sky Now Solved

Notanee Bourassa knew that the purple lights he was seeing in the night sky were not normal. Bourassa, an I.T. technician in Regina, Canada, trekked outside of his home on July 25, 2016, around midnight with his two younger children to show them a beautiful moving light display in the sky — an aurora borealis. ...

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A Novel Chemical State of the Element Manganese Has Been Discovered

Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first proposed about 90 years ago, enables a high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery that could quickly and efficiently store and distribute energy produced by solar panels and wind turbines across the electrical grid. This direct proof of a previously unconfirmed charge state ...

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The atomic structure of the anode material

NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Much like detectives study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. And they found a lot of water. In fact, the planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much ...

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Exoplanet of WASP-39b.

‘Smoke Rings’ Spotted Off the Australian Coast From Space

Two “smoke rings” have been discovered off the Australian coast, leaving researchers believing that they could “suck up” small marine creatures carrying them at high speed for long distances across the ocean. Researchers from the University of Liverpool spotted the equivalent of smoke-rings in the Tasman Sea, off the southwest of Australia and in the ...

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