Half of schools in US district closed

Drastic school closures in Kansas City, Missouri leave 700 staff facing job losses A school district in Missouri has found a way to deal with the long-standing problem of its sink schools: close them down more or less overnight, explaining that if they don’t the district will go bankrupt .

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"Dark Flow" of Billions of Stars Racing Away from Earth Towards Edge of Observable Universe (New JPL Research)

“Dark Flow” sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It’s not! Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very..

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600-Million-Year-Old Origins of Human Vision Discovered

Our eyes that scan the farthest reaches of the universe had their origin in the simple hydra, a members ancient group of sea creatures that along with jellyfish, belong to the phylum cnidaria that first emerged 600 million years ago…

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Antimatter Supernova -The Biggest Bomb in the Cosmos

We’ve recently seen the largest explosion ever recorded: a supergiant star two hundred times bigger than the sun utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production.

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Future Tech: Mind-Powered Computers

Patients in Jacksonville’s Mayo Clinic campus have become the world’s first cyborg spellers, conjuring computerized letters using nothing but the power of the mind using the power of the electrodes surgically implanted through their skull onto the very surface of…

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Billions of Tons of Methane Beneath Frozen Arctic Destablizing, Scientists Warn

A region of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of…

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Is the1st Human to Live to 1,000 Alive Today? (A Galaxy Classic)

Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger…

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Image of the Day: "The Black Cloud"

This image shows a rare area of the Milky Way, a dark globules, known as Barnard 68 (B68) -a compact, opaque and rather sharply defined object against a rich, background star field.

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The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (3/12)

Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Titan By precisely tracking NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon’s interior. The subtle gravitational tugs they measured…

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Will "Intelligence" be an Evolutionary Constant Throughout the Universe?

Charley Lineweaver, a cosmologist with The Australian National University, believes the “Planet of the Apes Hypothesis” -a theory subscribed to by Carl Sagan and the astronomers involved with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), that human-like intelligence is a convergent…

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