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Science Tuesday: DNA.LAND, Pluto’s Blue Skies, and a Floating Island of Pain

Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! It’s been a long time since we’ve had a Science Tuesday post *coughMAYcough* but now that StO is done and I’m world building Enfields, I have time to read through all my science news emails. So here’s all the science news from October (so far). Ceres’ bright spots, pyramid-shaped mountain focus […]

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Science Tuesday: Laser Cannons, Galaxy Strangulation, and a Warm Blooded Fish

[Photo: Opah, a warm-blooded fish, by NOAA Fisheries West Coast] Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! We’re back to our normal weekly science news post, and there’s some really good stuff in here (seriously, check out the Lisa Frank Crayfish – it’s beautiful!). Domestication changes genes in animals: Domestication results in genetic changes within animals, according to

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Science Tuesday: A Malaria Vaccine, Solar Powered Desalination, and Captain Kidd’s Booty.

[Photo: Rising Sun, a 1917 shipwreck in Lake Michigan, US Coast Guard] Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I missed Science Tuesday last week, so we have a couple weeks of science news to get through. Let’s get to it! Diverse, drug-resistant bacteria found on isolated Amazon villagers: Bacteria living in and on villagers of a remote

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Science Tuesday: Pre-Clovis Tool Found in Oregon, 170-Year Old Beer Smells Like Goat, and Ganymede’s Ocean.

[Photo of agate scrapper by the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History] Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I’ve been enjoying Dogfish Head Brewery’s Ancient Ales lately, but I don’t think I’d try a 170-year old beer that smelled like goat. Would you? Read below to find out more about that beer, as well

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Science Tuesday: The “Living Buddha”, New Metamaterials, and the City of the Monkey God.

Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I took a couple weeks off from social media, but I’m back with all the sciencey news goodness you could ever want. Two week’s worth of it – so let’s get started! Rising ocean acidity threatens shellfish, study suggests: The changing acidity of the oceans may soon affect the shellfish market,

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Science Tuesday: Contacts with Zoom, Ant Colony Toilets, and a New Species of Sea Dragon

(Image of Ruby Red Seadragon by Josefin Stiller , Nerida G. Wilson , Greg W. Rouse [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons) Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! We have a full platter of science news for the week, so let’s get right to it! Strange haze in upper Mars atmosphere has scientists scratching their heads:

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Science Tuesday: The Big Bang Is Bunk, The Dark Side Of The Moon, and Dino LSD.

Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! There was lots of science news in the past week, so let’s get right to it! Researchers find evidence of dark matter at center of Milky Way: A team of researchers say they’ve shown that dark matter exists at the center of the Milky Way, according to a study published online

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Science Tuesday: New Species of Human, “God’s Hand”, and Ebola May Be Mutating.

Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I’m recovering from a nasty bout of the flu that left me with laryngitis today, but Science stops for no one. Today’s science news list may be a bit space-heavy because I’ve been listening to the audiobook of THE MARTIAN while sick. It makes my little scientist heart happy because the

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