A group of environmentalists have petitioned the federal government to put West Coast Great White Sharks as an endangered species. From an L.A 다운로드. Times article:
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In a surprise find, astronomers have discovered a planet possibly covered with oceans of magma “right around the corner.”
Thirty-three light years away, “we have a sub-Earth-sized planet that’s slightly larger than Mars and essentially right around the corner, at least on a cosmic scale,” said Kevin Stevenson, a planetary scientist now at the University of Chicago
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“It could be a thousand degrees Fahrenheit [540 degrees Celsius] fobs. That may be hot enough to make an ocean of molten rock.”
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Learn more: National Geographic – New Planet Found: Molten “Mars” Is “Right Around the Corner”
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Ancient Roman beads in Japan
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Via – Yahoo! News
East Asian man in ancient Rome
Some people of Italian ancestry, like me, might have a surprise in the family tree—a man of east Asian descent, who was living and working 2,000 years ago in the boondocks near the heel of the Italian boot Windows apache download. The discovery is the first good evidence of an Asian living in Italy during Roman times.
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Via – Scientific American
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