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Rivers & Oceans

3 months ago

Bright-green fireball meteor caught exploding above famous Viking raid site in UK - By - Harry Baker - published - 16 April 26 - Photographers caught a spectacular emerald-green fireball meteor streaking above Lindisfarne in northeast England, where Viking raiders famously killed and robbed Christian monks in the eighth century.

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Hackers used AI to steal hundreds of millions of Mexican government and private citizen records in one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever - By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 16 April 26 - A group of hackers used both Claude Code and ChatGPT in a cybersecurity hack that lasted two and a half months.

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Stephen Hawking's black hole paradox could be solved - if the universe has 7 dimensions - By - Andrey Feldman - published - 16 April 26 - Stephen Hawking's theory of black hole evaporation clashes with the laws of quantum mechanics. A new paper finds a way around this paradox, provided that the universe has seven dimensions.

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'Something's missing': Most thorough-ever study of the cosmos proves we still can't explain how the universe is expanding - By - Ivan Farkas - published - 15 April 26 - A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our understanding of how the universe works.

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'Human evolution didn't slow down; we were just missing the signal': Large DNA study reveals natural selection led to more redheads and less male-pattern baldness - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 15 April 26 - Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and leprosy in humans, according to a new study.

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New study confirms lobsters feel pain, driving scientists to call for a ban on boiling them alive - By - Kenna Hughes-Castleberry - published - 15 April 26 - A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that lobsters feel pain, with the crustaceans seemingly responding to electrical shocks with emotional distress.

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2 supermassive black holes may collide 100 years from now ‪-‬ and Earth would feel it

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Anglo-Saxon burial holds an older sister cradling her little brother after they both died 1,400 years ago, possibly of an infectious disease

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Colorado River may have pooled and spilled over to form the Grand Canyon, solving a long-standing mystery ‪-‬ but not everyone agrees

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Northern lights may be visible from several US states Friday and Saturday as giant hole opens up in sun's atmosphere

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