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GN-108036: taking a peek at the dark ages
The universe began 13.7 billion years ago and until recently we only knew two galaxies from a time comparable to one so far in the past. A week ago, astronomers (Masami Ouchi, Bahram Mobasher, Hooshang Nayyeri, Kyle Penner, Benjamin J. Weiner, Yoshiaki Ono, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Kimihiko Nakajima, Mark Dickinson, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Daniel Stern, Nobunari … Continue reading
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The culprit behind the mysterious Black Deaths of the 14th century may have been identified with full confidence. Yersinia Pestis has been identified as the culprit (probably!) by Verena Schuenemann from the University of Tubingen and Kirsten Bos from McMaster University who used samples from East Smithfield to reconstruct the full genome of the bacterium behind the … Continue reading
“Why is the physics community obsessed with the Theory of Everything? Because it answers everything.” It is the reigning question now as to why we need a quantum theory of gravity or a theory of everything or, as Einstein put it, a unified field theory. In fact the general lot of physicists have unanimously divided themselves … Continue reading
“A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.” —Christopher Wren ‘Gliese 581g is in the ‘Goldilocks zone’ of its solar system, where liquid water could exist, and is a strong contender to be a habitable world’ Guardian reported on Wednesday the 29th last month; and … Continue reading
