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NASA Has Found More Evidence for Life on Mars

NASA has just announced two major breakthroughs in the search for life on Mars: the first is that the Mars Curiosity rover has detected the presence of organic molecules preserved within the bedrock of the Martian soil; the other is that Curiosity has also detected a wide variation in the amount of methane...
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Dwarf Planet Caju's New Orbital Plot Points to... Planet Nine!

The newly-plotted orbital path of a recently discovered trans-Neptunian object has added new fuel to the growing body of evidence that there is a planet of substantial size orbiting in the far reaches of our solar system. The highly-eccentric orbit of this dwarf planet fits perfectly--and indeed can currently only be explained by--the presence of...
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Superstorms are on the Rise, Prompting Calls for a New Category 6

A recent review of global hurricane data has revealed that the occurrence of powerful cyclones has increased dramatically since 1980, with the number of strong Category-5 storms having more than tripled, with a disturbing trend for these storms to both reach their peak wind speeds farther north and dump ever increasing amounts of rainfall,...
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Ancient Microbes Hint that Life is Common Throughout the Cosmos

A recent analysis of the fossils of ancient microorganisms from deep within Earth's past have unveiled the presence of a surprising amount of biodiversity that flourished roughly 3.4 billion years ago, when the Earth was still a very young planet. The variety of metabolic processes that these early microorganisms used suggests that they needed...
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