Infant giant planet found 330 light-years apart

Most planets found by astronomers are “old” – they’re fully-formed after a great many years arranging elements around their star. In any case, scientists simply found an infant giant exoplanet orbiting a youthful star only 330 light-years from Earth, making it the nearest of its sort to everyone. The planet is known as 2MASS 1155-7919…

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Norwich looks for property owners keen on free environmental evaluations

The city is looking for property owners who are actively seeking after the redevelopment of vacant and conceivably contaminated properties for accessible government grant funding to study potential contamination and make cleanup plans. In 2016, Norwich got a $384,000 government Environmental Protection Agency brownfields assessment grant, with $185,000 earmarked for petroleum sites and $199,000 for…

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Researchers discover oldest-known fossilized digestive tract at 550 million years of age

A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of creatures on Earth. Over a half-billion years prior, life on Earth was involved in simple ocean organisms unlike anything living in the present oceans. At that point, starting around 540 million years prior,…

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Durham startup reveals autonomous vehicle guidance gadget

Sense Photonics is entering the autonomous vehicle market with a new gadget designed to support robotic vehicle and driver assistance systems – and it’s utilizing the global Consumer Electronics Show as the launching pad. Called Osprey, the gadgets will cost $3,200. Propelled in 2016, the organization uses a technology known as LiDAR (which represents light…

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