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Maybe There’s No Way to Tell if Habitable Planets Orbit Proxima Centauri… Yet!
Our closest stellar neighbor is Proxima Centauri, an M-type (red dwarf) star located over 4.24 light-years away (part of the Alpha Centauri trinary system). In 2016, the astronomical community was astounded to learn that an Earth-like planet orbited within this star’s circumsolar habitable zone (HZ). In addition to being the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima…
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Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon Gets Paramount+ Release Date and New Poster
✖Not only does the latest Reno 911! movie finally have a name, but it also has a release date as well. Wednesday afternoon, Reno mainstay Thomas Lennon posted the film’s poster on his Twitter account, revealing it will be released on December 23rd, right in time for the holidays.Furthermore, the film looks to be tackling…
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WWE’s Roman Reigns, Bianca Belair, and More Talk Survivor Series, The Rock, & George Clooney Battle on Late Night
✖WWE’s Survivor Series hits this Sunday at the Barclays Center in New York, and to get the word out some of your favorite superstars took the Late Night stage at both NBC’s The Tonight Show and CBS’ The Late Show. Universal Champion Roman Reigns stopped by to chat with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show…
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Environmentalists sound alarm at US politicians’ embrace of cryptocurrency
Bitcoin and similar blockchain-based currencies require huge amounts of power, predominantly generated from fossil fuelsThe incoming mayor of New York City thinks cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are the future. Eric Adams has advocated to reshape the city into a crypto hotspot, with crypto being taught in schools. He also plans to take his first three…
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10 Things in Politics: Dems wants DOJ to be more aggressive
And the FDA seems ready to OK a booster shot for all adults this week.Read original article here.
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Human rights to water of millions endangered by large-scale agriculture and industries
In an in-depth cross-country analysis considering the impacts of large-scale agriculture and industry on the human right to drinking water, Dr. Naho Mirumachi, Reader in Environmental Politics, from King’s College London has called for renewed political commitment to ensure everyone can enjoy access to clean, drinkable water.Read original article here.
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The US Justice Department is selling $56 million worth of crypto seized in massive bitcoin investment fraud case
The $2 billion BitConnect scheme is the largest cryptocurrency fraud ever criminally charged, the Justice Department said.Read original article here.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Electromagnetism
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! There’s a lot to see with today’s topic: electromagnetism! We’ve known about features of the electromagnetic force for a long time. We knew that the Sun generated light (and we debated if the Moon did too). We knew that we felt…
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The first black hole image: A gravitomagnetic monopole as an alternative explanation
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently mapped the central compact object of the galaxy M87 with an unprecedented angular resolution. Though the remarkable breakthrough has been interpreted based on theory that M87 contains a rotating or “Kerr” black hole. New research published in EPJ C by Chandrachur Chakraborty and Qingjuan Yu at the Kavli…