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Why Sci-Fi Planets Like Arrakis Or Tatooine Aren't Accurate, According To NASA
Sci-fi planets like Dune's Arrakis and Star Wars' Tatooine might look cool, but according to NASA they're more fiction than science.
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10 Deadliest Star Wars Outlaws Fans Would Love to See More Of
The old Jedi Master was referring to Mos Eisley spaceport, but he may as well have been talking about the Star Wars galaxy as a whole. The galaxy far, far away is known as a place rocked by vast ...
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Sydney funnel-web spider found to be three different species
The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...
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Forty-one new flora and fauna species added to Australia's threatened list
Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...
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Extinction threatens nearly a quarter of all freshwater species
New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...