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2019-01-18 @ 12.34.21 ∈ In English

Team of scientists led by U of T identify period of increased asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying the moon
In a study published today in Science, the team shows the number of asteroid impacts on the moon and Earth increased by two to three times starting around 290 million years ago.
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2019-01-15 @ 11.23.39 ∈ In English

True Facts About Cosmology (or, Misconceptions Skewered)
I’ve decided to quickly list, in Tweet-length form, some true facts about cosmology that might serve as a useful corrective.
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2019-01-14 @ 18.46.00 ∈ In English

Don’t kill my app!
To squeeze a little extra battery out of your phone, Android device vendors listed below (with their bad vendor score) cripple apps and make them useless.
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2019-01-11 @ 17.11.01 ∈ In English

”Look at the ticks on him. Jesus Christ,” he exclaimed.

Python with 500 ticks found in pool
The carpet python may have been trying to drown the parasites in a backyard swimming pool.
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2019-01-09 @ 17.03.50 ∈ In English

Phoenix joins the LVFS
If you’re using a ThinkPad right now, you’re most probably using Phoenix code in your mainboard firmware. Phoenix have been working with Lenovo and their ODMs on LVFS support for a while, fixing all the niggles that was stopping the capsule from working with the loader used by Linux.
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2019-01-03 @ 13.28.34 ∈ In English

Study shows the Sahara swung between lush and desert conditions every 20,000 years
[This] climatic pendulum is mainly driven by changes to the Earth’s axis as the planet orbits the sun, which in turn affect the distribution of sunlight between seasons — every 20,000 years, the Earth swings from more sunlight in summer to less, and back again.
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2019-01-02 @ 15.26.30 ∈ In English

The Best Test of General Relativity (by 2 Misplaced Satellites)
A launch mishap led to the best experimental confirmation of gravitational redshift.