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)
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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