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Artist’s concept of the atmospheric collapse of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. (SwRI/Andrew Blanchard)

Black Hole Back Doors?; Io’s Atmosphere; No New Stars in Galaxy Center

August 5, 2016

Do Black Holes Have Back Doors? Most people describe a black hole as a cosmic object with gravity so strong that it sucks in any kind of material that comes close to it. What happens to stuff that is pulled into a black hole? Some scientists think that matter that enters a black hole gets […]

Reconstructed drawing of fossil forest in Svalbard (Cardiff University)

Study: Ancient Forests Fueled Early Climate Change

November 23, 2015

A pair of scientists from the United Kingdom have found a fossilized tropical forest complete with tree stumps of one of Earth’s first forests in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located between Norway and the North Pole. They also say that primitive forests such as the one they found may be one of the reasons for […]

Red chili peppers (Nicholas Gemini via Wikimedia Commons)

Where Does Rain Go; Ocean Organics Form Cloud Ice; Hot Peppers May Fight Cancer

September 9, 2015

What Happens to Precipitation After it Falls to Earth? Have you ever wondered what happens to rain or snow once it falls on Earth? Researchers from the University of Utah and Oregon State University analyzed measurements, taken by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on NASA’s Aura satellite, of the two forms of hydrogen contained within […]

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