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Science Corner: Saturn's Return

by MOLLY LAMBERT

Sloth and primate fossils found in underwater cave

Dinosaur dads co-parented, watching eggs and baby dinos

Ancient sharks nommed on plesiosaurs

oh I am real old don't you know, born 10 billion years ago

Newfound tiny (cutest) T-Rex had horns

Magnetic fields guide star birth

Water officially found on the moon

a moving galaxy being blown around in the space wind

Speeding galaxies distorted by space winds

Cosmic rays hit a fifty year high

Solar system's longest continuously observed lightning and thunderstorm is on Saturn

bet you wish you were being levitated instead

Monster plant eats rodents and insects

Levitating mice in a lab

Wolves are smarter than dogs on logic tests 

time lapse of the rogue comet getting ensared in Jupiter's orbit

Jupiter turns a comet into a moon

Mental health issues may be byproducts of the over-functional human brain

Predicting extraterrestrial weather 

Galaxies NGC 1532 and NGC 1531

Observations from the Gemini South telescope in Chile (pictured at top of post)

Red Leaves vs. Yellow Leaves 

Scientists can see numbers inside your head.

dreaming of Atlantis, forgetting about the Atlantis in Reno Nevada

Sietch Nevada wants to build a canal city beneath the desert

Robot to gets a human's brain cells

Strange dwarf planet Haumea has a dark red spot 

NO TORUS IUS???

The giant elliptical galaxy M87 lacks a torus around its central black hole, or else this doughnut-shaped ring of material is extremely faint.

Enormous new ring found orbiting Saturn 

Electric fish can hit a personal dimmer switch

pictured: a comet explodes into lots of little comets

Comet spews up lots of baby mini comets

Nine previously unknown species of worms found on whale cadavers in the ocean.

Maggot therapy gains in popularity

male squirrel monkeys are all somewhat color blind

Therapy fixes color blindness in monkeys 

Hyenas are unexpectedly good at cooperating

Animals think about thinking, just like human beings

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