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  • New ESA-Assisted Experiment Grows Human Tissue in Space

    This study could lead to growing artificial blood vessels in space, ready for human surgery on Earth.

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  • Astronomers Witness Birth of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

    Astronomers using the twin LIGO detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector located near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from the most massive binary black hole merger ever discovered. The two spinning black holes merged when the Universe was only about 7 billion years old, which is roughly half its present age, and formed a larger black hole weighing a whopping 142 times the mass of the Sun — a so-called intermediate-mass black hole.

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  • Watch: Trio of UFOs Filmed in New Jersey

    A curious piece of footage out of New Jersey shows a puzzling trio of mysterious lights hovering in the night sky and some observers suspect that they belonged to a triangular UFO.

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  • The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Could Find More of Earth’s Transient Moons

    It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.

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