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CWG Live updates: Beautiful with a bright moon tonight. More nice days to come. - The Washington Post
The weather ‘good life’ until further notice.
A single bolt of lightning can heat the air around it to roughly five times the temperature of the surface of the Sun, and it is the violent expansion of that superheated air that creates the crack of thunder. - Space Daily
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts the temperature of a lightning channel at about 30,000 degrees Celsius, and states plainly that this is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the Sun, which sits near 5,500 degrees. The rapid…
Scientists find hundreds of inherited DNA patterns that defy classic Mendelian genetics - The Brighter Side of News
Mouse study finds hundreds of inherited DNA methylation patterns that do not follow classic Mendelian genetics.
Dopamine Locks in Stress-Induced Sexual Dysfunction - Neuroscience News
Dopamine in the mushroom body of fruit flies controls the persistence of stress-induced courtship suppression.
Reported ancient mammoth bones found deep in Alaska were actually whales from 250 miles away - Yahoo
Once scientists inspected the bones more thoroughly, they realized what they actually were.
The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet's history, wiping out the vast majority of spec - Space Daily
Roughly 2.4 billion years ago, the atmosphere of the Earth underwent the most consequential chemical change in the planet’s history. Free oxygen, a gas that had been present only in trace amounts for the previous two billion years, began accumulating in the a…