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• Looks like a Sharknado brewing, but shark horde is a good thing, people say

  Sharks live in the ocean. That’s the running joke in my circles. Every February it’s kind of become a ritual for news gatherers and social media sharers. Somewhere between Groundhog Day and Valentine’s Day every year, it’s time to broadcast the shark migration video clip. During the months of January through March, hundreds of thousands of sharks migrate from the Florida Keys and South Florida northward along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Sunshine State. The migration is timed to follow..

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• Neuroscientists have found a basis for the 'I was just following orders' excuse

  

  Society has long held that when people commit wrongdoing, they cannot eschew responsibility by claiming that they were “just following orders.” The infamous plea became known as the “Nuremberg defense” during the post-World War Two trials, when Nazi war criminals used it to excuse their actions. But a study published in Cell Biology on Feb. 18, titled “Coercion changes the sense of agency in the human brain,” suggests that this excuse isn’t just a pretext. People who’ve been ordered to do somet..

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• Pluto's moon may have had an ocean

  

  Rachel Feltman, Washington Post Posted: Sunday, February 21, 2016, 1:08 AM Scientists have been blown away by Pluto's complex geology in the months following NASA's historic flyby of the dwarf planet. But it's not the only interesting world in its system: Charon, Pluto's largest moon, has proved surprising as well. According to the latest data from New Horizons, Charon may once have hosted a large subsurface ocean. The freezing and expansion of this ocean could be to bla..

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• Put Your Artwork On An Asteroid

  

  Put Your Artwork On An Asteroid NASA is inviting you to put your artwork on an asteroid as it will hurdle through space for thousands of years to come. The new call for art submission made by the space agency will seek to encourage those interested in expressing their spirit of exploration. The submissions will be sent via the OSIRIS-REx, to be launched later this year The spacecraft will reach asteroid Bennu in 2018, after which it will remain there Asteroid Bennu is 4 billion years old, aroun..

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