Tag: discoveries
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#MorningMonarchy: March 9, 2016
Tap water trust, smart chocolate and big dumb food + this day in history w/Emergency Banking Act and our song of the day by Tom Waits on your Morning Monarchy for March 9, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 12, 2016
The brain’s music room, “Zik V” and Sonos experiments + this day in history w/”Rhapsody In Blue” and our song of the day by Ane Brun on your Morning Monarchy for February 12, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 11, 2016
Sirhan Sirhan, ‘The Purge’ and Plath + this day in history w/R.U.R. and our song of the day by Tindersticks on your Morning Monarchy for February 11, 2016.
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NASA: Humans Will Prove ‘We Are Not Alone In The Universe’ Within 20 Years
from cbslocal.com: NASA predicts that 100 million worlds in our own Milky Way galaxy may host alien life, and space program scientists estimate that humans will be able to find life within two decades. Speaking at NASA’s Washington headquarters on Monday, the space agency outlined a plan to search for alien life using current telescope…
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‘Godzilla of Earths’ Identified
from bbc.com: There is a new class of planet out there that astronomers are calling the “mega-Earth”. It is an object with a hard surface like our own world but much, much bigger. The necessity for the new designation follows the discovery of a planet which has a mass some 17 times that of Earth.…
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First Technique to Turn Light into Matter Discovered
from ndtv.com: In a breakthrough, scientists have for the first time discovered a revolutionary technique to turn light into matter, a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago. Three physicists at the Imperial College London’s Blackett Physics Laboratory worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first…
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New species of metal-eating plant discovered in the Philippines
from pensoft.net: Scientists from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños have discovered a new plant species with an unusual lifestyle — it eats nickel for a living — accumulating up to 18,000 ppm of the metal in its leaves without itself being poisoned, says Professor Edwino Fernando, lead author of the report. Such an…
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Egypt Dig Unearths Earliest Image of Jesus?
from haaretz.com: A team of Spanish Egyptologists may have found one of the earliest-known pictures of Jesus Christ, in a 6th-century tomb unearthed in Upper Egypt. That and other images are painted onto the walls of a crypt inside an underground structure, whose use has otherwise baffled the finders. The main attraction at Al Bahnasa…
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Egypt Dig Unearths Earliest Image of Jesus?
from haaretz.com: A team of Spanish Egyptologists may have found one of the earliest-known pictures of Jesus Christ, in a 6th-century tomb unearthed in Upper Egypt. That and other images are painted onto the walls of a crypt inside an underground structure, whose use has otherwise baffled the finders. The main attraction at Al Bahnasa…





