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Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a new species of theropod dinosaur — making it a close relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex. A group of researchers said they recently uncovered rare bones in the U.K. that appear to be related to the iconic species.

Paleontologists at the University of Southampton said they recently analyzed four bones on the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of mainland England. The bones are from the neck, back and tail of the new dinosaur, named Vectaerovenator inopinatus.

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Coming this week on Cosmic Controversy! I’m honored to welcome #Villanova University Professor Edward Guinan, an international expert on stellar astronomy and extrasolar planets, as my guest. We’ll be discussing the red supergiant star #Betelgeuse; our Sun over cosmic time; the mysterious star #Sirius; the North Star #Polaris; and, the potential for finding life around the Sun’s two nearest stellar neighbors. Stay tuned! brucedorminey.podbean.com

Only 300 of these incredible things will be made. This is what’s inside them.

This magnitude 7.1 earthquake started deep underground, in a gash on the Atlantic seafloor, a little more than 650 miles off the coast of Liberia, in western Africa. It rushed eastward and upward, then did an about-face and boomeranged back along the upper section of the fault at incredible speeds‑so fast it caused the geologic version of a sonic boom.

The ferocity of shaking from an earthquake is usually focused in the direction the temblor is traveling. But a boomerang quake, or a “back-propagating rupture” in scientific terms, may spread the intense shaking across a wider zone. It remains uncertain how common boomerang earthquakes are—and how many travel at such great speeds. But the new study, published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, is a major step toward untangling the complex physics behind these events and understanding their potential hazards.

“Studies like this help us understand how past earthquakes ruptured, how future earthquakes may rupture, and how that relates to the potential impact for faults near populated areas,” says Kasey Aderhold, a seismologist with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, via email.

Kate Broderick discusses the development of INOVIO’s frontrunner COVID-19 DNA vaccine and states the need for preparedness for future outbreaks.

Microsoft is redesigning the clipboard in Windows 10 to include images, GIFs, emojis and more.

Ensuring nobody goes to bed hungry.

Almost 690 million people in the world were undernourished in 2019 – that’s 8.9% of the world population, a new UN report says. This figure could exceed 840 million by 2030 if current trends continue.

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Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church is “turning on” youth-promoting genes. In this exclusive interview Dr. Church explains how he expects to achieve human age reversal in the foreseeable future.

Scientifically reviewed by: Dr. Amanda Martin, DC, on August 2020. Written By Dr. Shelly Xuelai Fan.

Meet the scariest creature you’ll probably ever encounter, as alongside the Indian Ocean you will find the giant beast known as the Coconut Crab. This is quite a strange finding, as it is both obscure, terrifying, and fascinating all in one. In order to study more about the invertebrate, Mark Laidre from Dartmouth College actually ended up spending two whole months at Chagos where he inspected the strange beings to see what else they could possibly find out about them. That’s where he came to realize that upon opening large coconuts with their claws these creatures end up exerting a.