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Huge Black Hole Discovered in Small Galaxy

Which came first: the black hole or its home galaxy? This chicken-and-egg analogy is an issue raised with the discovery of a massive black hole inside a tiny, dwarf galaxy, and it may provide clues to the formation of the universe. A little Astronomy 101 would help here. We live on a planet that's part of a solar system...

Squirrels Are Getting Fatter Now, Too (Thanks to Global Warming!)

(July 21) -- Some squirrels are getting a lot plumper than they used to be, but the root cause of their weight gain isn't what you might suspect (not saturated-fatty nuts, sorry!): It's global warming. That's the conclusion drawn in a three-decade-long study on the yellow-bellied marmots -- large ground squirrels also...

Harmless Creature Killed Because of Superstition

(March 27) -- For some residents of the African island nation of Madagascar, encountering the tiny mammal called the aye-aye is as bad as meeting death itself. The 4- to 6-pound animal is believed to creep into the houses of villagers and use its peculiarly long middle finger to lance the hearts of sleeping victims,...

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