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• Science|How Big Are Those Killer Asteroids? A Critic Says NASA Doesn't Know.

  

  During his paleontological endeavors — another hobby — he challenged research by a Florida State University professor, Gregory M. Erickson, about the growth rates of dinosaurs. In a 2013 paper, Dr. Myhrvold described the perceived statistical wrongs and stopped just short of accusing Dr. Erickson of manipulating the data.Corrections have been appended to several of Dr. Erickson’s papers, including two in Nature. Dr. Erickson and his colleagues maintain that the mistakes did not alter their conc..

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• Superflares on the Sun May Have Provided Warmth for Life to Develop on Earth, Study Says | The Weather Channel

  

  The building blocks for life on Earth were likely made possible by superflares from a young sun, a new NASA study has found.The findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, used observations from NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope. In studying the data, scientists learned that younger stars, similar to the sun billions of years ago, shoot out flares and coronal mass ejections far more often than older stars.The flares that came from our sun were responsible for break..

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• Squid Are Thriving While Fish Decline

  

  Photo Population numbers of cephalopods like this giant Australian cuttlefish from Spencer Gulf, South Australia, have been increasing in the past 60 years. Credit Scott Portelli The squids are all right — as are their cephalopod cousins the cuttlefish and octopus.In the same waters where fish have faced serious declines, the tentacled trio is thriving, according to a study published Monday.“Cephalopods have increased in the world’s oceans over the last six decades,” Zo..

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• Space-craft: NASA offers origami model of space station's expandable habitat

  

  May 25, 2016 — NASA's plan to expand an experimental inflatable module on board the International Space Station this week has given rise to a new "space-craft." The space agency has created "origaBEAMi," a print, fold and inflate-it-yourself miniature paper model of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). The real BEAM was launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule in April and is scheduled to be deployed to its full-size Thursday morning (May 26). Aboard the orbiting outpost, NASA astronaut..

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• Breakdown of Biodegradable Plastics in Ocean 'Extremely Slow,' UN Report Says

  

  The rate at which the biodegradation of plastics in the ocean is difficult to estimate but is considered to be "extremely slow," according to a new report by the United Nations. 0 Shares. Email. Biodegradable plastics, often found in bottles and ...

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• Light Bending Trick Reveals Supremely Old, Faint Galaxy

  

  The triple-imaged galaxy as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The peaks along the same wavelength reveal that they come from the same source. Credit: Bradac/HST/W. M. Keck Observatory By looking far, far out into the universe, it is possible to see some of the earliest galaxies to ever form. Now, scientists have spotted a very early galaxy that's the faintest they have ever seen. The first galaxies to ever form in the cosmos lie far from the Milky Way (due to the expansion of the un..

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