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Without more data, a black hole's origins can be "rotated" in any direction

Without more data, a black hole’s origins can be “rotated” in any direction

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An MIT study reveals that, for now, the catalog of known black hole binaries does not reveal anything fundamental about how black holes form. Pictured is a simulation of light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system where the surrounding gas is optically thin (transparent). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Clues to a …

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SFI Press publishes "Ex Machina: Coevolutionary Machines and the Origins of the Social Universe"

SFI Press publishes “Ex Machina: Coevolutionary Machines and the Origins of the Social Universe”

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image: In “Ex Machina: Coevolutionary Machines and the Origins of the Social Universe,” SFI External Professor John H. Miller merges ideas from the study of games, the fundamentals of computation, and evolutionary theory of Darwin to examine dynamic social systems through a computer lens. see After Credit: Santa Fe Institute Press The Earth is full …

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Long-standing genomic mystery about origins of introns explained in new study

Long-standing genomic mystery about origins of introns explained in new study

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3D model of DNA. Credit: Michael Ströck/Wikimedia/ GNU Free Documentation License One of the oldest fundamental mysteries in biology concerns the poorly understood origins of introns. Introns are non-coding DNA segments that must be removed from the genetic code before being translated in the protein manufacturing process. Introns are an ancient feature present in all …

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NASA's James Webb Telescope reveals molecular and chemical origins of distant planet

NASA’s James Webb Telescope reveals molecular and chemical origins of distant planet

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Images captured by NASA’s James Webb Telescope reveal new information about the molecular and chemical profile of a distant exoplanet named WASP-39b. WASP-39b is an exoplanet, which means that it is a planet located outside our solar system, some 700 light years from our planet. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online …

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