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Bitcoin Climbs Above $41,000 In Its Biggest Rally In Months
Bitcoin reached a high of $41,956 Saturday morning, up 25% from the year’s low last month.Read original article here.Written by: Anna Kaplan
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Astronomers trace galaxy flows across 700 million light years
Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), University of Maryland and University of Paris-Saclay has traced the movement of 10,000 galaxies and clusters of galaxies,…
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Beijing’s Opening Ceremony Overlooked a Major Threat to Future Olympics
Although snowflakes played a starring role, the subdued show did little to address the grave implications of climate change.BEIJING — Martin Müller is a professor of geography at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, a centuries-old institution whose main campus is nestled along the northern shoreline of Lake Geneva. There he enjoys taking breaks from…
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U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hits 900,000, sped by omicron
(AP) — Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina. California workers could be eligible…
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10 things before the opening bell
Meta’s mega meltdown has dragged the whole market down with it, GameStop’s new NFT platform, and an outlook for bitcoin.Read original article here.
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These were the 5 best performing cryptos over the past week despite bitcoin bear market
Keeping an eye on the weekly winners can help investors identify which coins are beginning to see increased traction in the crypto community.Read original article here.
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A Highly Eccentric Black Hole Merger Detected for the First Time
In February 2016, scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed the first-ever detection of a gravitational wave event. Originally predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, GWs result from mergers between massive objects – like black holes, neutron stars, and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Since 2016, dozens of events have been confirmed, opening…
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Calling all Swifties! New York University launches new course about Taylor Swift and the singer is invited
Calling all Swifties! New York University has officially launched a new course focused on Taylor Swift, just in time for spring semestre. As part of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, the course will run from January 26 to March 9, and students can expect to learn more about the singer’s career and her cultural…
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Colorado radio host flooded with messages after O’Toole departure
For the past few days, a Colorado radio host has been busy replying to Canadians on Twitter. Her name is Erin O’Toole and often gets mistaken for the ousted Conservative leader. “When the news broke, I was getting a lot of messages saying, ‘good. Glad you’re out’ or ‘thank you and I will always support…
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“The Boondocks” Star Cedric Yarbrough Says Series Reboot Was Canceled By Sony Pictures Television
For those who have been crossing their fingers with hopes that The Boondocks would return to television, one of the show’s stars has thwarted your dreams. For years, there have been rumors about Aaron McGruder’s brainchild coming back to the small screen but updates have been infrequent. The famed comic strip was made into a successful animated…