The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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The Daily Galaxy -Great Discoveries Channel, is an eclectic text and video presentation of news and original insights on science, space exploration and the environment and their reflections in popular culture (film, books, events). It provides news and original insights on science, space exploration, cosmology, astrobiology, and astrophysics.
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Does human consciousness exist separate from matter, or is it embodied in the body –a critical player in anything that has to do with mind? “We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.” answers neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, who pioneered the field of embodied consciousness –the bodily origins of […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Today’s stories include If Aliens Contact Humanity, Who Decides What We Do Next to A Mind-Blowing Experiment Just Showed How Life’s Ingredients Formed in Outer Space, and much more. If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?–Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’, […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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“There are precious few fossil relics of the early Universe,” Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego, and author of Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner,” told The Daily Galaxy. “Just after the Big Bang,” Keating explained, “came the epoch of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, ending a few minutes later. The […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Hello Galaxy fans –we decided to do a “cosmic” tree this year. This one is from the emission nebula NGC 2264 cluster of young hot stars, which includes the Cone Nebula, the Stellar Snowflake Cluster and the Christmas Tree Cluster. Image is courtesy of the European Southern Observatories (ESO) in Chile. Fast Facts About […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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“At one time,” writes science-fiction author Dennis E. Taylor in We Are Legion (We Are Bob), “we thought that the way life came together was almost completely random, only needing an energy gradient to get going. But as we’ve moved into the information age, we’ve come to realize that life is more about information […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Avi Shporer, Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research via Ricard Sole, Revisiting Van Valen’s Red Queen Hypothesis, Vox, and SUNY College of Environmental Science. “The fact that all organisms are nearly equally fit has profound implications for the evolution and persistence of life on Earth,” said James H. Brown, a physiological […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Gary M. Bernstein, Simon Portegies Zwart, BBC and NOVA The coldest, darkest reaches of our Solar System – a region still to be visited by human spacecraft – is a strange, frigid cloud that contains material from other stars and an unconfirmed object known […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Avi Shporer with the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research via UC Santa Cruz, Sandra Faber, and the Neils Bohr Institute Recent research suggests that in massive galaxies, the central black hole –a strange galactic monster, for which creation is destruction, death is life, and chaos is order – is like […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Brian Keating, Jonas Mureika and Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) “Eliminating the singularity or Big Bang– which has its origins in the late 1920s when US astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that almost all galaxies are moving away from each other at ever-faster velocities– […]
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The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond
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Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Bernard Foing, John P. Maier, and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center What is so special about carbon is that it’s doubtful (although possible) that life could have used something other than carbon. Each carbon atom can form four strong bonds that allow for an extraordinary […]
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