Women are more likely to opt for “maybe”
“Is paint a tool?” This sounds like the start of a three-hour argument between stoned college students, but it’s actually a question scientists asked groups of men and women. And apparently, ladies were more likely to answer “sort of.” Researchers at the University of Warwick asked 113 people whether 50 objects belonged “partially, fully, or…
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Hubble Comes of Age With Dramatic New Image
This dramatic look at Arp 273 shows the very photogenic group of interacting galaxies that glow bright with intense star formation, perhaps triggered by a little carousing the two galaxies are doing with each other as they approach and interact. Arp 273 lies in the constellation Andromeda and is roughly 300 million light-years away from…
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Nancy Atkinson - Universe Today
