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April 18
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Study Finds Earth’s Animals One Giant Creature Before Breaking Apart Millions Of Years Ago (The Onion)
"Over the next million years, internal rifting is projected to cleave the platypus into a species of duck and a fairly large rodent."
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Pig Brains Kept Alive Outside Body for Hours After Death (Nature)
Revival of disembodied organs raises a slew of ethical and legal questions about the nature of death and consciousness.
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First Image of Black Hole Captured (Event Horizon Telescope news release)
In a series of six papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers with the Event Horizon Telescope — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes — unveiled the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.
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Confirmed: New Phase of Matter Is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time (National Geographic news)
Under the right pressure and temperature, potassium can adopt a so-called chain-melt phase. It might exist in the Earth's mantle.
