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We’ve been taught that all matter is composed of tiny building blocks called atoms. Now imagine if this wasn’t true. This is the research astronomers are pursuing as they try to figure out what “dark matter” is.

Theoretical physicist Howard Baer says, “Recent scientific breakthroughs have shown that most of the matter in the universe?about four-fifths?is not made up of atoms, but of something else, called ‘dark matter.’ The evidence for dark matter is now overwhelming, and the…amount of dark matter is becoming precisely known.”
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Parts of the arctic are experiencing an incredible heat wave, with temperatures reaching above 72 degrees?the same as current weather conditions in parts of California!

In the Oct. 3 edition of the Independent, Steve Connor quotes researcher Scott Lamoureux as saying, “The landscape was being torn to pieces, literally before our eyes.”

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Now that summer is over and exhausted parents have sent their kids back to school, an ongoing question arises once again: should kids go to school all year? New research has found that students in “year-round” schools don’t learn more than their peers in traditional nine-month schools. And if kids go to school full-time, they won’t have enough chances to get DIRTY!
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In the Oct. 4 edition of the Independent, Robert Verkaik reports that MI6 agents (the equivalent of the US CIA) were operating in Paris on the night of August 31, 1997, the time of the car crash that killed Diana and Dodi Fayed. This was revealed to a jury at a hearing in the UK which is investigating their deaths. Dodi?s father, Mohamed Al Fayed, believes that they were murdered to avert a scandal that would have affected the monarchysince he claims that Diana was pregnant when she died.
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