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Palm Fossils from Subarctic Canada Imply Ice-Free Winters 48 Million Years Ago
Palm trees of the tribe Trachycarpeae once thrived in what is now subarctic Canada, according to an ...View More
DESI Discovers 2,800 New Black Holes
Astronomers using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on NSF’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m te ...View More
Paleontologists Find World’s Oldest Known Megaraptorid, Australia’s First Carcharodontosaur Fossils
Paleontologists have unearthed five new theropod fossils from the Cretaceous period, including two c ...View More
Physicists Observe Synchronized Dance of Electrons on Buckminsterfullerene Molecule
Physicists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Hamburg have observed how ...View More
Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole is More Active than Previously Thought
The accretion disk orbiting Sagittarius A* is emitting a constant stream of flares with no periods o ...View More
Post-Permian Extinction Tropical Ecosystems Recovered Much Faster than Expected
Tropical riparian ecosystems — those found along rivers and wetlands — in what is now North China re ...View More
Astronomers Map Out 3D Structure of WASP-121b’s Atmosphere
Ultrahot Jupiters, an extreme class of planets not found in our Solar System, provide a unique windo ...View More
Swimming in Lakes with Still Water Can Lead to Legionella Infection, Researchers Say
Legionella is an atypical cause of community-acquired pneumonia that often presents with a prodrome ...View More
New Theory Increases Probability of Intelligent Life beyond Earth
In 1983, the theoretical physicist Brandon Carter concluded that the time it took for humans to evol ...View More
VST Traces History of Unusual Elliptical Galaxy
A giant elliptical galaxy called NGC 3640 has engulfed several smaller galaxies in the past, accordi ...View More
