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Reddit Enthusiasts Chart Course Through Rumors of Undersea Bases and Lurking Craft
A post on r/UFOs gathers congressional remarks, a 1989 film, a Baltic anomaly and a Bahamian naval facility into one theory of the deep.
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Ancient Reshuffling of Octopus Genome May Explain Eight-Armed Intellect, Vienna Study Suggests
University of Vienna researchers report that a sudden folding upheaval in cephalopod DNA, hundreds of millions of years ago, may have laid groundwork for their elaborate nervous systems.
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North Carolina Researchers Fashion 'Lightsaber' That Broadcasts Radio Waves
A laser-formed column of plasma, fed by a metal ring, has been made to transmit signals at around 30 megahertz, according to a new study.
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Spacecraft Passes Through Kink in Sun's Magnetic Field, Settles Old Dispute Among Scientists
European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter samples a 'switchback' in the solar wind and traces it to the Sun's atmosphere, according to a new paper.
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Rare Metal in Greenland Mud Reveals Five Thousand Years of Atmospheric Habit
A MARUM-led team says niobium in a fjord sediment core shows the North Atlantic Oscillation has steered southern Greenland's rain and snow for millennia.
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Dark Matter May Be Black Holes Dwelling in a Fifth Dimension, Physicists Propose
A paper in Physical Review D suggests that primordial black holes formed with five-dimensional properties could help explain the universe's missing mass.
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Flashing Lights and Gentle Buzzing Said to Coax Sleepers Into Lucid Dreams
A New Scientist report describes Montreal experiments, while a linked item asks whether advertisers will follow into the bedroom of the mind.
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Mile-Long Martian Cloud Forms Out of Nothing, Scientists Report; Textbook Physics Invoked
Researchers say a yearly ice cloud over Arsia Mons can be modelled only if a process long deemed theoretical is allowed to occur.
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Okinawa Physicists Nudge Levitating Diamond With Light-Driven Electron Spin
A team reports that the spin of trapped electrons produced enough force to move a centimeter-scale object suspended against gravity, though it stops short of true quantum superposition.
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Death at Siberian Plague Institute Prompts Border Checks and Calls for Answers
A 28-year-old laboratory technician's death from pneumonia of unknown cause has drawn inquiries from Washington and the World Health Organization.
