Fish eat plastic like teens eat fast food, researchers say and other top stories.

• Fish eat plastic like teens eat fast food, researchers say

  

  Image copyright Oona Lonnstedt Image caption A Damselfish larva that has ingested tiny plastic particles Young fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way that teenagers prefer unhealthy fast food, Swedish researchers have said.Their study, reported in Science, found exposure to high concentrations of polystyrene makes perch larvae favour the particles over more natural foods.As a result of exposure to plastic, the young perch are..

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• Is the universe expanding faster than we thought?

  

  Illustration demonstrating the steps the team took to measure the Hubble Constant. NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU) A new study could change how we examine the universe. Using Hubble data, a team of researchers led by Nobel Laureate Adam Riess has recalculated the expansion rate of the universe, finding that it could be as much as nine percent faster than previous calculations indicated.To ca..

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• Sun may have stolen mysterious ninth planet, scientists say

  

  For months, headlines have been buzzing about the possibility that our solar system is harboring a rogue planet that has a mass 10 times that of Earth, and scientists have recently noticed it. If our solar system really does have another planet, it didn't just come out of nowhere, scientists said. Astronomers believe if such a world does exist, it was pulled into our solar system by the sun, according to a new report in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.Scientists be..

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• Underwater 'lost city' is a natural phenomenon, say scientists

  

  But what was once thought to be an ancient underwater "lost city" is actually a naturally occurring phenomenon, scientists have found.New research published in the Marine and Petroleum Geology journal today reveals the ancient underwater site was actually created by a natural geological phenomenon around five million years ago.Lead author of the research, Professor Julian Andrews, from the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences, told CNN: "The suggestion that they were arch..

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• Astronomers probe below Jupiter's cloud tops

  

  Image copyright SCIENCE/AAAS Image caption A VLA radio map of the complex upwellings of ammonia in the region around the Great Red Spot (top), next to a visible image of the spot's cloud tops acquired by Hubble US astronomers have managed to peer deep into the atmosphere of Jupiter using a radio telescope on Earth.The Very Large Array (VLA) traced the presence of ammonia in the gas giant to study the circulation systems below the visible cloud tops.Fo..

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• A New Origin Story for Dogs

  

  Tens of thousands of years ago, before the internet, before the Industrial Revolution, before literature and mathematics, bronze and iron, before the advent of agriculture, early humans formed an unlikely partnership with another animal—the grey wolf. The fates of our two species became braided together. The wolves changed in body and temperament. Their skulls, teeth, and paws shrank. Their ears flopped. They gained a docile disposition, becoming both less frightening and less fearful. They lea..

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• Evidence That Elon Musk Is an Alien

  

  Image: Getty / History Channel / Gizmodo Last night, Elon Musk suggested that Earth is simply a simulation from an alien race’s video game. Why would Musk say this? Because he is one of those aliens. It’s easy to get a kick out of Musk’s quirky quotables. But the closer you look at his words and actions, the more you’ll start to see: He’s an alien who came from another galaxy to help save humanity. Here’s proof. SpaceX SpaceX is just a front so he can have somewhere to store his own space tr..

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• Blue Origin and NASA team up to test new technologies in space

  

  NASA has just added Jeff Bezos' space travel company Blue Origin to its list of carriers approved for carrying new technologies to space. The partnership is part of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), which allows other space travel organizations outside of the government to test new technologies in microgravity or zero gravity environments. Blue Origin's part in all this is its payload system that works something like a stack of miniature shipping containers, with each on..

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• June great for viewing Mars, Jupiter

  

  Three bright planets are on display this month, and two of these are of special interest. That's because June begins with a close-up encounter of the planet Mars and ends with a very different type of approach to the planet Jupiter.Recall that the planets slide across the sky independently of the seasonal progression of the stars. Indeed, it's this odd motion that made them stand out for early naked-eye observers, along with their conspicuous brightness. Jupiter, easily the brightest object in ..

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