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• Prehistoric 'Malaria' Strain May Have Triggered The Downfall Of Dinosaurs, Study Claims

  

  A new research study mapping malaria’s prehistoric origins has claimed to have unearthed considerable evidence to date the origins of the disease as far back as the epoch of the dinosaurs. The findings have prompted a leading expert to propose that the disease could well have impacted the prehistoric species millions of years ago. In his latest study published in the journal American Entomologist, paleo-biologist George Poinar Jr. from the College of Science at Oregon State University, claims t..

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• Mystery object crashes into Jupiter

  

  An artist's impression of the Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. It will arrive there in July this year. IMAGE: NASA/JPL-Caltech.A MYSTERIOUS object slammed into Jupiter last week, leaving amateurs and experts alike coming up with their own big bang theories.Austrian stargazer Gerrit Kernbauer caught the cosmic smash-up on film last Thursday, with footage of a “strange light spot” near the gas giant.“Thinking back to Shoemaker-Levy 9, my only explanation for this is an asteroid or comet that enters Jup..

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• Creepy New Fossil Shows the Dawn of Spiders

  

  By Brian Switek PUBLISHED Tue Mar 29 20:01:00 EDT 2016 A beautifully preserved fossil from France has given paleontologists a look at an animal that is almost, but not quite, the earliest known spider. The eight-legged creature lived 305 million years ago and has been named Idmonarachne brasieri, a reference to Idmon, the father of the skilled weaver Arachne in Greek mythology. Amateur fossil hunter Daniel Sotty discovered it in the a..

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• Another Climate Change Election

  

  A Lonergan opinion poll, commissioned by Future Super and published in The Guardian, indicated 47 per cent of those surveyed agreed or strongly agreed that “climate change and renewable energy will influence the way I vote at this year’s federal election.” Only 22 per cent disagreed with that statement. Interestingly, 65 per cent said they were quite worried, very worried or extremely worried about the impact the proposed Adani Carmichael mine in Queensland would have on climate change an..

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• Mountain lake of frozen nitrogen spotted on Pluto's surface

  

  Former planet Pluto has turned out to be much more weird and wonderful than many would have guessed, as reflected in the multitude of data and images sent back by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from its fly-by of the dwarf planet last July. The latest find from the many observations is what appears to be a lake of frozen liquid nitrogen nestled in Pluto's mountains. "In addition to this possible former lake, we also see evidence of channels that may also have carried liquids in Pluto's past," s..

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