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How the Sun was born
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Florida residents, you have a new neighbor — and it has the body of an eel and the spots of a leopard. It also has two small arms with gills sticking out of its body, and lives in the swamps of the Panhandle.
The creature is actually a new species of legless salamander or siren. It is being officially called Siren reticulata, or the Reticulated Siren, and its discovery was published in the journal PLOS One journal last week.
Scientists say the two-foot-long Reticulated Siren is among the largest species discovered in the United States in over 100 years.
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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes — a millionaire many, many times over — is behind this big idea.
Chris Hughes earned nearly half a billion dollars after co-founding Facebook. Now he’s arguing for fairer wages in the form of a $500 monthly ‘social dividend’ for low- and middle-class Americans.
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About the dinosaur wars…? Somehow I find this whole discussion to be debated in a pretty narrow-minded fashion and it renders it, at least to me, fairly useless.
Environmental influences are important, too, but they are largely unsystematic, unstable and idiosyncratic.
- By Robert Plomin on December 14, 2018
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Himawari-8 Real-time Web — NICT
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Don’t miss out on one of the most prolific and reliable meteor showers of the year! The Geminid meteor shower will put on a dazzling display for sky watchers when it peaks on Dec. 13. You’ll be able to see up to 100 meteors per hour. Plan ahead: http://go.nasa.gov/geminids2018
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