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Colliding Auroras Produce an Explosion of Light

A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA’s THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. Movies of the phenomenon were … Continue reading →

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Greening of Sahara Desert Triggered Early Human Migrations out of Africa

A team of scientists from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the University of Bremen (Germany) has determined that a major change in the climate of the Sahara and Sahel region of North Africa facilitated early human … Continue reading →

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First Proton Collisions in the LHC

The world’s largest particle accelerator has performed its first collisions, and its first beam acceleration.Progress on the giant experiment has been rapid in the four days since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was restarted.According to several sources, these low-energy collisions … Continue reading →

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Humans could become extinct

Humans race could become extinct, a new study concludes, but no single event,  could do us in, and all extinction scenarios would have to involve some kind of intent by people in power.Human race itself will ultimately determine its fate. … Continue reading →

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