A major volcanic event could have triggered one of the largest glaciations in Earth’s history — the Gaskiers glaciation, which turned the Earth into a giant snowball approximately 580 million …read more Source:: Science
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What it takes to be a giant shark
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•Have you ever wondered why the Megalodon shark became to be so big? Or wondered why some other sharks are much smaller? …read more Source:: Science
Waves in Saturn’s rings give precise measurement of planet’s rotation rate
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•Saturn’s distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers discover the giant that shaped the early days of our Milky Way
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•Some ten billion years ago, the Milky Way merged with a large galaxy. The stars from this partner, named Gaia-Enceladus, make up most of the Milky Way’s halo and also …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft’s patent move: Giant leap forward or business as usual?
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•Some see this as a giant leap forward for Microsoft and open source. A few, however, see Microsoft’s open-source patent move as just more of the same old, same old. …read more Source:: Linux
Ledumahadi mafube: South Africa’s new jurassic giant
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•A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tons and stood about four meters …read more Source:: Science
Under pressure, hydrogen offers a reflection of giant planet interiors
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•Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists to probe hydrogen under the conditions found in the interiors of giant planets — where experts believe it gets squeezed until it …read more Source:: Science
25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot aquatic predator
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•More than two decades of exploration at a Pennsylvania fossil site have given paleontologists their best idea of how a giant, prehistoric predator would have looked and behaved. …read more Source:: Science
Black hole and stellar winds form giant butterfly, shut down star formation in galaxy
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•Researchers have completed an unprecedented ‘dissection’ of twin galaxies in the final stages of merging. The new study explores a galaxy called NGC 6240. While most galaxies in the universe …read more Source:: Science
Martian moons model indicates formation following large impact
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•Scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-moon …read more Source:: Science