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Monday 25 March 2019
Julian day 2458568.1375
NEWS
U Mass Dartmouth: Large, rotating black holes might be safe hyperspace portals
Avian opium addicts devastate Indian poppy farms
Huge mountains and valleys charted -- 650 km (400 mi) under our feet
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Turkmenistan: Central Asia's North Korea
OSIRIS-REx approaches weirdly diamond-shaped asteroid. Sample return planned.
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Plane with no moving parts achieves powered flight
Ten Worldwide Insect Delicacies
4600-year-old papyri now explain how blocks were transported to Khufu’s Pyramid
Here’s what’s been killing off the bees
Mind-altering grass is no fun for kangaroos
Pre-pre-pre-dynastic: Neolithic village discovered in Nile delta
Trend-setters now drink hydrogenated water (but try not to burp near open flames)
Weird new purple aerial glow phenomenon, named Steve
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Cody mines platinum from freeway dust
Growing tiny Neanderthal brains (that hopefully can’t telepathically control the experimenters)
Titanium dioxide, used in almost everything that’s white, implicated in Type II diabetes
Approximate distance to the moon is currently
379,458 km (235,784 mi)
and it’s receding at about 236.3 km/h (146.9 mph).
It’s speeding up.
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