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Texas Astronomers Find that Dark Matter Dominates Across Cosmic Time
University of Texas at Austin astronomers report that they have stumbled on an extraordinary galaxy that may corroborate a recently contested theory about dark matter.
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Females Prefer City Frogs’ Tunes
Urban sophistication has real sex appeal — at least if you’re a Central American amphibian. Male frogs in cities are more attractive to females than...
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Newly Identified Gravitational Waves Help Pinpoint Black Hole
The scientists looking for gravitational waves reported that last year they observed four additional ripples in space-time. During about a nine-month period, scientists including UT...
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Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Microbes Gobble Greenhouse Gases and Perhaps Oil Spills, Too
They were found living in the extremely hot, deep-sea sediments located in the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California
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Common Weed Killer Linked to Bee Deaths
The world’s most widely used weed killer, Roundup, causes honey bees to lose some of their beneficial bacteria and are more susceptible to infection and...
