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Eating Without Limit: Ravenous Object May Explain Early Black Hole Growth

Elizabeth Fernandez

An artists conception of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Researchers have identified one of these black holes in the early Universe, which appears to be accreting matter at 40 t ...[Continue Reading]

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Oldest-Known Fossil of Creature That Seems Part Reptile, Part Mammal Found

Paul Smaglik

The oldest known saber-toothed predator, dating back over 270 million years ago, appears to have been an animal caught in the evolutionary middle, according to a report in Nature Communications. The ...[Continue Reading]

Discover Magazine

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'Dog-Like' Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal

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Paleontologists have revealed what may be the earliest known saber-toothed animal to have ever liveda predator that roamed our planet before the age of the dinosaurs. In a study published in the jo ...[Continue Reading]

Newsweek

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FBI warns Americans to keep their text messages secure: What to know

Bill Chappell

It's not often that apiece of FBI advice triggers a Snopes fact check. But the agency's urgent message this month to Americans, often summarized as "stop texting," surprised many consumers. The warn ...[Continue Reading]

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How a Small Chinese Company Tricked the German State | DW Investigation

Charles Rotter

DW Planet A DW uncovered that dozens of Chinese climate projects, certified by the German authorities as carbon credits under the upstream emission reduction scheme, failed to deliver on promises to ...[Continue Reading]

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Skeptoid #967: Cryonics: A Chilling Prospect

brian@skeptoid.com (Brian Dunning), Brian Dunning

Spread among several facilities around the world, hundreds of dead people are frozen in capsules cooled with liquid nitrogen and hundreds more have just their heads in the same cold storage. These ...[Continue Reading]

Skeptoid.com

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