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The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever seen rotates once every 25 seconds

Oct 12 2021 6:00 AM

A white dwarf star that spins every 25 seconds owes its record-breaking rotation rate to a companion star dumping gas onto it.

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Methods of getting results from real-world experiments win 2021 economics Nobel

Oct 11 2021 12:45 PM

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens share the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing a science of naturally occurring social studies.

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The earliest evidence of tobacco use dates to over 12,000 years ago

Oct 11 2021 11:00 AM

Burned seeds at an archaeological site in Utah hint at tobacco's popularity long before it was domesticated.

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Dog DNA reveals ancient trade network connecting the Arctic to the outside world

Oct 08 2021 9:00 AM

People in Siberia were exchanging canines and probably other goods as early as 7,000 years ago with cultures as far off as Europe and the Near East.

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How catching birds bare-handed may hint at Neandertals' hunting tactics

Oct 08 2021 7:00 AM

By pretending to be Neandertals, researchers show that the ancient hominids likely had the skills to easily hunt crowlike birds called choughs.

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China's lunar rock samples show lava flowed on the moon 2 billion years ago

Oct 07 2021 2:45 PM

The first lunar rocks returned to Earth in more than 40 years show that the moon was volcanically active later than scientists thought.

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