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goran72 writes:
A new image, taken with an infrared camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, has revealed a cosmic fireworks display, in the form of tens of thousands of previously unseen comet-shaped knots inside the Helix Nebula.
http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/07/cosmic-fireworks-display.html
http://www.naoj.org/
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goran72 writes:
Earth-like planets with life-sustaining conditions are spinning around stars in our galactic neighbourhood. They just haven't been found yet.
There is a very good chance that we will find some Earth-like planets within 10, 20 or 30 light years of the Sun.
http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/02/earth-like-planets.html
3400081
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goran72 writes:
In a development which could reveal the links between modern humans and their prehistoric cousins, scientists said they have mapped a first draft of the Neanderthal genome.
Researchers used DNA fragments extracted from three Croatian fossils to map out more than 60 percent of the entire Neanderthal genome by sequencing three billion bases of DNA. http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/02/neanderthal-genome.html
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goran72 writes:
Malaysian archaeologists have announced the discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in South-east Asia. http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/02/oldest-tools-in-se-asia-found.html
3160393
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goran72 writes:
Scientists have come up with a radical new theory of planet formation, by suggesting that Mars and Mercury were formed from the scraps of Earth and Venus.
http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/01/earth-and-venus.html
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goran72 writes:
Students from the college of engineering at Virginia Tech in the US have made highly durable bricks composed of a lunar rock-like material, which one day might be used to build dwellings in colonies on the moon. http://www.phenomenica.com/2009/01/bricks-for-future-moon-colonies.html
