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Not a single piece of evidence for evolution? (Is evolution true? Part 6)
YouTube video by Joel is Curious
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October 23, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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It's dumb that the same folks who're all: "Superheroes are ridiculous & could NEVER happen #BecauseScience" are the same who truly believe the #ZombieApocalypse is real because shrooms & viruses.
"Because Science".
Despite 'living corpses' being the antithesis of science, logic & human biology.
October 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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this is definitely a local recommendation. However, if you’re looking for something fun for the nerds in your life. #adamsmorgan #nerdlife #dc #becausescience
October 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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The trees are about to show us that when there's inadequate sunlight for photosynthesis, dropping leaves is an important energy saving measure. #WelcomeFall #BecauseScience
September 23, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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New images show moon crater carved by SpaceX rocket | AP News
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Before-and-after NASA images show crater carved by a SpaceX rocket that slammed into the moon
A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.
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August 19, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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How large can galaxies be?
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How large can galaxies be?
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August 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel | WIRED
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It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel
Black holes eject powerful energy jets that blow away the surrounding gas to great distances. So how can they continue to grow?
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July 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes - NASA Science
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NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes - NASA Science
Archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri.
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July 14, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Gravitational waves reveal hidden populations within black hole mergers | Phys.org
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Daily science news on research developments, technological breakthroughs and the latest scientific innovations
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July 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk
Suppose you're wandering around a space without any particular destination in mind – exploring a park maybe, or ambling across a music festival site.
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June 12, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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Trouble near the Milky Way: The Large Magellanic Cloud is ripping its smaller neighbor galaxy apart
In the gravitational tug of war between the dwarf galaxy siblings, it's the Small Magellanic Cloud that's losing.
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June 8, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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Astrophysicists strike black gold with treasure trove of gravitational wave detections
Researchers from the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research are celebrating the publication of a vast new treasure trove of gravitational wave detections, hailed as a milestone m...
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May 27, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes more than 22 hours to reach it — so when engineers send a command, they can wait nearly two days to know whether ...
Sending a command to Voyager 1 is closer to mailing a letter than placing a phone call. The probe, launched in September 1977, is now roughly 16 billion miles from Earth, heading away from the Sun at ...
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May 25, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye - Yahoo News UK
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NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye
Avert ye gaze.
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May 9, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Scientists discover ‘most chemically pristine’ star yet found in the universe | University of Chicago News
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Scientists discover ‘most chemically pristine’ star yet found in the universe
On trip to Chilean telescope, UChicago undergrad class sheds new light on evolution of earliest stars
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April 5, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Webb and Hubble share most comprehensive view of Saturn to date | ESA/Webb
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Webb and Hubble share most comprehensive view of Saturn to date - Infrared and visible observations show layers and storms in the ringed planet’s atmosphere
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have joined forces to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways.
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March 27, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way | ScienceDaily
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Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way
For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a gigan...
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March 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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"The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time"

We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
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We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time
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February 17, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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"Strange infrared glow found in archival data from a defunct NASA mission"

Scientists get clearest view ever of star collapsing into a black hole. And they very nearly missed it | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
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Scientists get clearest view ever of star collapsing into a black hole. And they very nearly missed it | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
M31-2014-DS1 is a star in the Andromeda Galaxy that underwent a brightening in infrared. Astronomers say it was a star becoming a black hole.
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February 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Astronomers detected a strong signal from space lasting seven hours. Now they may have worked out what it was | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
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Astronomers detected a strong signal from space lasting seven hours. Now they may have worked out what it was | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
In 2025, astronomers detected a blast from space lasting seven hours. Now they’re uncovering the processes behind the exceptional outburst.
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February 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one — and we finally know why | Live Science
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Every major galaxy is speeding away from us, except one — and we finally know why
A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding toward us while our other neighbors are moving away from us.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China - CBS News
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New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Mysterious dark matter seen in new high-resolution map of distant galaxies - CBS News
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Mysterious dark matter seen in new high-resolution map of distant galaxies
Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity warps and bends the star stuff around it.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists : ScienceAlert
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Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists
Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction? | Space
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What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction?
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our space neighborhood.
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January 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM