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WEBPaleolithic Humans Caused Extinction of Dwarf Hippos and Elephants on Cyprus. Around 3,000-7,000 hunter-gatherers on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus hunted endemic dwarf hippopotamus (Phanourios minor) and dwarf elephants (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes) to extinction within less than 1,000 years, according to …
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WEBSep 13, 2024 by News Staff. Using images from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have spotted a fresh volcano with multiple lava flows and volcanic deposits covering an area about 180 x 180 km. A comparison of the JunoCam image from February 2024 with Galileo spacecraft imagery of the same area in ...
Scientists Discover Impenetrable Barrier 11,500 km above Earth
WEBNov 27, 2014 · Next ». A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly impenetrable barrier some 11,500 km above our planet that blocks so-called ‘killer electrons,’ which can fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms.
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WEB4 days ago · Sep 10, 2024 by News Staff. Paleontologists have found the fossilized seeds of gymnosperm trees — relatives of today’s conifers and ginkgos — in stomachs of two specimens of Longipteryx chaoyangensis, one of the earliest known birds and one of the strangest. The discovery shows that these birds were eating fruits, despite a …
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WEB6 days ago · Sep 17, 2024 by News Staff. Bubble use evolved in many small invertebrates to enable underwater breathing, but, until recently, there has been no evidence that vertebrate animals use bubbles in a similar manner. Only one group of vertebrates, semi-aquatic Anolis lizards, may be an exception: these …
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WEBSep 12, 2024 · The living coelacanth Latimeria is an iconic ‘living fossil’ within one of the most apparently conservative groups of vertebrates. Now, paleontologists have described a new species of primitive coelacanth from a fossil found in the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia. Named Ngamugawi wirngarri, …
Collision between Milky Way and Its Satellite May Have Triggered ...
WEBMay 26, 2020 · The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy is an elliptical loop-shaped galaxy that is currenly located 78,300 light-years away. “It is known from existing models that Sagittarius fell into the Milky Way three times — first about 5 or 6 billion years ago, then about 2 billion years ago, and finally one billion years ago,” said Dr. Tomás Ruiz-Lara, an astronomer in the Instituto de Astrofísica de ...
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WEBAug 22, 2024 · Sep 9, 2024 by News Staff. In their experiments, physicists at the University of Bonn and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau observed the dimensional crossover from one to two dimensions in a harmonically trapped gas of photons (light particles) and studied its properties. The photons were trapped in a dye microcavity where polymer ...
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WEB5 days ago · Sep 18, 2024 by News Staff. Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the Universe’s dark matter. In this scenario, their abundance would be large enough for at least one object to cross through the inner Solar System per decade. A flyby like this would introduce a wobble into Mars’ orbit, to a degree that today’s ...
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WEBAug 19, 2024 · Common Food Dye Makes Skin, Muscle Reversibly Transparent in Live Animals. Sep 5, 2024 by News Staff. Researchers at Stanford University have found that an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tartrazine, has the effect of reversibly making the skin, muscle, and connective tissues ...
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