Mysteries
Secrets Of Massive Black Hole Unveiled: Workings Of Giant Galactic Particle Accelerators Discovered
by ScienceDaily
At the cores of many galaxies, supermassive black holes expel powerful jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. Just how they perform this feat has long been one of the mysteries of astrophysics. The leading theory says the particles are accelerated by tightly-twisted magnetic fields close to the black hole, but confirming […]
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What Are The Odds Of Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life?
by Science Daily
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Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such […]
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Tall Tales: Giant Squid
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by Hayley Birch
Are the oceans hiding monsters of epic proportions? And will they survive long enough for us to track them down?
FirstScience - Hemmed in on all sides by two metre-long, tentacled sea demons, Scott Cassell must have thought he’d breathed his last…
30 minutes later he emerged from what would have been his […]
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