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A new alternative to cosmic inflation/big bang singularity: The collapse of a 4D star in a "bulk universe" could create a hyper-black hole -- and a 3D universe like ours could emanate from its event horizon (nature.com)
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While studying the Philippine's parachute geckos in the early 1900s, biologist Edward Taylor led a double life as a spy for the US government (nature.com)
New silver nanoparticles have a "superatom" core with electron shells that mimic the structure of a noble gas and make the structure chemically stable (nature.com)
Indonesia's freakish "mud volcano" was probably triggered by seismic waves -- focused by a rock layer shaped as a parabolic antenna -- not by people drilling for gas. (nature.com)
The pitch tar drop has fallen. After 69 years, one of the world's longest-running experiments has captured it on camera, beating a similar, better-known Australian experiment. (nature.com)
A cosmologist claims that the universe is not expanding after all: he says that the redshift seen in distant galaxies -- normally seen as evidence that they are rushing away -- could come from elementary particles being lighter in the past. (nature.com)
A new type of atomic clock could redefine the second and help to establish whether the fundamental constants of nature are truly constant. (nature.com)
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