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April 22
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Ancient Salt Rock Suggests Oxygen Surged in Early Atmosphere (Princeton University News)
A study of two-billion-year-old salt found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 billion years ago, known as the Great Oxidation Event, was much more substantial than previously indicated: "Instead of a trickle, it was more like a firehose."
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David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone (New York Times)
The geneticist at Harvard Medical School has retrieved DNA from more than 900 ancient people. His findings trace the prehistoric migrations of our species.
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Cosmologists Create Largest Simulation of Galaxy Formation, Breaks Their Own Record (Gauss Center for Supercomputing)
A multi-institutional team has broken its own record and given the cosmology community a world-class simulation, called Illustris, to study how the universe formed.
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Stephen Hawking, Who Shined a Light on Black Holes, Dies at Age 76
“Stephen was far from being the archetype unworldly or nerdish scientist — his personality remained amazingly unwarped by his frustrations and handicaps.”
