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  Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event

  newatlas.com - By Michael Irving

  Last time this happened, Earth got plants. Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have …

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  The “Big Crunch”: New dark energy data raises questions about Universe’s fate

  bigthink.com - Stephen Johnson

  Every culture has a story of the eschaton: the end of time. In Norse mythology, the world will end in an epic battle called Ragnarök, with gods …

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  Infamous boat-sinking orcas spotted hundreds of miles from where they should be, baffling scientist

  Live Science - By Harry Baker

  Orcas that attack and sink boats in southwestern Europe have been spotted circling a vessel in Spain, hundreds of miles from where they should …

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  NASA spacecraft snaps awesome view of volcanoes erupting on distant world

  Mashable - Mark Kaufman

  Hundreds of millions of miles away. There are volcanoes erupting hundreds of millions of miles beyond Earth. And a NASA spacecraft is watching it happen. The space agency's Juno probe, which has orbited Jupiter since 2016, swooped by the gas giant's volcanic moon Io last week, its last close planned …

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  Researchers discover new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation

  phys.org - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have discovered that tardigrades—microscopic animals famed for surviving harsh extremes—have …

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  Shocking Study Reveals Many Fast-Tracked Cancer Drugs Offer No Clinical Benefit

  ScienceAlert - Clare Watson

  Promising cancer drugs that are fast-tracked through approvals don't always work as hoped. A new study has found around 40 percent of anti-cancer …