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Science Tuesday: Badass Snails, A Wormhole in the Milkyway, and Un-cooking an Egg.

Happy Wednesday, Aledan Merfolk! I was so busy working on my new FE short story yesterday that I kept forgetting about Science Tuesday, but there were so many cool science things that happened I couldn’t let it wait until next week. Let’s get to the sciencey goodness! Oldest gospel ever found may have been hidden […]

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Science Tuesday: A Warp in Space-Time, Our Solar System Has More Planets, and the Evolution of the Color Blue

Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! It’s Science Newsday and we have a lot to cover, so let’s get right to it! Easter Island culture in decline before Europeans arrived, study suggests: After examining obsidian tools at archaeological sites on Easter Island, researchers say environmental factors may have played a role in the decline of the indigenous

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Science Tuesday: Egyptian Queen Discovered, Black-hole Collision Course, and Beethoven’s Arrhythmic Compositions.

Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! Are you ready for 2015’s first dose of awesome science news? Let’s see what the new year has in store for us. NASA works to fix aging rover’s memory problems: The rover Opportunity is starting to have memory problems after more than 10 years of exploring Mars, NASA scientists say, but

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Science Tuesday: Air-polluting Aliens, Radio Signals from Space, and the Robot That Can Build Itself.

The science news in the beginning of August was very space-heavy, but there are some great non-spacey tidbits in there. Check it out: Researchers: Dinosaurs that shrank quickly were more likely to survive: Dinosaurs that quickly shrank in size during their evolution to becoming birds were better able to adapt and thrive over time, according

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