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Rabid Fox Attacks Person, Dogs - The MoCo Show -

The Rockville City Police Department is advising residents in and around the Potomac Woods and Horizon Hills neighborhoods to remain alert after a rabid fox reportedly attacked a man and […]

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30 Graduation Gift Ideas - Between Carpools

Whether the grad you have in mind is completing 8th, 12th, or beyond….whether you want to buy a small token or something significant…you’ll find a graduation gift pick below. It’s often hard to think of a great graduation gift. Sometimes you just want to give…

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Morgan Wallen cancels 2nd Pittsburgh concert - TribLIVE.com

A threat of severe weather, that never hit Pittsburgh, prompted the cancellation of the second Morgan Wallen concert Saturday at Acrisure Stadium. While some rain did come through the North Shore in the mid-to-late afternoon, bringing the nearby Pittsburgh Pr…

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The James Webb telescope keeps finding early galaxies that look brighter, bigger and more mature than astronomers expected, forcing researchers to rethink how quickly the first galaxies formed stars and assembled after the Big Bang. - Space Daily

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14, the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy yet, whose light left it about 280 million years after the Big Bang. It is one of a growing population of early galaxies that are brighter and more numer…

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The largest insects that ever lived were dragonflies with wingspans of more than two feet, grown in an ancient atmosphere so much richer in oxygen that nothing that size could survive in the air we breathe today - Space Daily

The largest insect known to science was a predator called Meganeuropsis permiana, with a wingspan of about 71 centimetres, a little over two feet. It flew in the Early Permian, roughly 285 million years ago, and despite the way it is usually described, it was…

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In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across - Space Daily

In October 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe took the first photographs of the Moon's far side, developed the film in a tiny onboard darkroom, and scanned the prints to radio them back to Earth — a chain of engineering improbabilities that redrew the map of the s…

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Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, where temperatures soar into the millions of degrees even though the visible surface below is far cooler — one of the strangest long-running puzzles in solar physics. - Space Daily

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has spent the past few years flying repeatedly through the Sun’s corona, the outer atmosphere where temperatures run to more than a million degrees Celsius while the visible surface below sits at about 5,500. On 24 December 2024 it c…

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An AI trawled through 35 years of Hubble images and found more than 800 strange objects that had never been documented before, showing that one of astronomy’s most famous archives is still hiding discoveries in plain sight - Space Daily

Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and come back with a shortlist of unusual objects, more than 800 of which had never been described in the scienti…

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A 2013 University of Michigan study on rats found that in the 30 seconds after cardiac arrest, the brain produced a surge of high-frequency gamma waves more coherent than during waking life, a neural fireworks display some researchers think could underlie t - Space Daily

In 2013, Jimo Borjigin's lab at the University of Michigan recorded a surge of hyper-coherent gamma waves in rat brains in the 30 seconds after cardiac arrest, a signal stronger than waking consciousness and potentially linked to near-death experiences.

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