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Was Venus Once Habitable? – Geek.com

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Once upon a time (700 million years ago), in a faraway land (the Solar System), there may have existed a temperate planet hosting liquid water. A new study by the Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) highlights Venus’s climatic history—and its implications for habitability on exoplanets in similar orbits. Four decades ago, NASA’s Pioneer Venus […]

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Monster Tumbleweed Invades US – Geek.com

A hybrid species of giant tumbleweed once expected to go extinct is alive and well—and growing. Salsola ryanii, according to a study from the University of California Riverside, develops more “vigorously” than its parent plants thanks to a double set of their chromosomes. “[This] is a nasty species replacing other nasty species of tumbleweed in