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Should Pluto Be a Planet Again? Informal Vote Offers Support After Experts Debate A friendly debate about Pluto's planethood yesterday (April 29) ended in an informal vote that came down in favor of reinstating the dwarf planet's status. Early in the morning Eastern time, after a livestreamed Philosophical Society of Washington discussion ...
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Astronomers witness 'one of the most extraordinary black hole systems' (CNN) Nearly 8,000 light-years away from Earth, astronomers have discovered a black hole that keeps rapidly swinging out jets of plasma clouds into space, according to a new study. The black hole, known as V404 Cygni, doesn't behave like others. The jets ...
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Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists Hopes that astronomers found a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system may be slowly dimming. Two different groups of researchers took another look at data that had indicated the exomoon's presence. But neither saw the telltale dip in starlight that ...
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What can be done to prevent another CRISPR crisis? The public announcement last fall from China regarding gene editing on human embryos, conducted without the benefit of scientific review or ethical debate, was met with worldwide disdain. It also has raised global concerns that more rigorous standards must ...
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How Wasps Turn Spiders Into Obedient Zombies There's no real human equivalent for the zombified attack, one of the most jarring styles of survival in the animal kingdom. For proof of how perplexing these attacks are, consider what parasitoid wasps do to spiders. Recently, scientists from the Smithsonian ...
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Two UW–Madison professors elected to National Academy of Sciences Two University of Wisconsin–Madison scholars, John Valley, a professor of geoscience, and William Engels, a professor of genetics, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is considered one of the greatest marks of ...
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