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Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms - Phys.org

The evolution of tiny arms in several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs was likely driven by the development of strong, powerful heads, which were used to attack prey, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL (University College London) and Cambridge …

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Bernard “Bummy” G. Lowe - WGEL Radio

Lowe, aged 82, of Carlyle, passed away at his home on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Born on October 30, 1943, he was the son of Henry and Amelia (Lee) Lowe. Bernard is lovingly remembered by his brother Gary Lowe, sister Ruth Ann Hopper, and num…

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Consistency check casts doubt on evolving dark energy - Phys.org

Cosmologists have long struggled to determine whether the universe's accelerating expansion is being driven by a simple cosmological constant, or whether dark energy's influence is evolving over time. In a new analysis published in Physical Review D, Samsuzza…

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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
What factors speed up aging? - Harvard Health

Aging isn't determined by genetics alone. Learn which lifestyle, environmental, and health factors may accelerate the aging process....

Space Daily
The Mars rovers carry no clocks set to Earth time, so the engineers driving them shifted their entire lives to a 24-hour-39-minute Martian day, and within weeks JPL staff were sleeping during California afternoons, eating breakfast at midnight, and quietly develo - Space Daily

NASA's Mars rovers run on a 24-hour-39-minute Martian sol, and for the first 90 sols of every mission the engineers at JPL shift their entire lives to match, producing a jet lag no human had experienced before.

Space Daily
There is a single satellite launched by the US Navy in 1964 that is still in orbit, still transmitting, and still being used by amateur radio operators around the world — and nobody at the Navy has been in charge of it for decades - Space Daily

On December 28, 1964, a Thor-Able-Star rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and put a small US Navy satellite into a low polar orbit. The satellite was called Transit 5B-5. It weighed about 70 kilograms.

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