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Just 670 million years after the Big Bang, a quasar with a monstrous black hole dominated a growing galaxy.

Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 7:07 am A team of scientists have been exploring some of New Zealand’s most remote and rugged coastal zones. Parts of the South Island’s West Coast are so inhospitable to humans that marine biologists simply don’t know what plants and animals are there, or how they are faring. Enter the NIWA drone team, ably assisted by the Department of Conservation and University of Cantebury. Recently they’ve been mapping two marine reserves off the West Coast of the Sout...

January 2021 1041 Cordis, Hangzhou, Sci-Tech City opens and joins its sister Cordis hotels in Shanghai, Beijing, Dongqian Lake, Hong Kong and Auckland.   Located in the heart of the high technological and integrated complex, Hangzhou Future Sci -Tech City, Cordis, Hangzhou is a contemporary, approachable luxury hotel which features 186 rooms and suites ranging from 36 to 190-sq-m in size, three restaurants and bar, a 24 hour well-equipped gym and a diverse range of flexible meeting and ev...

Bottles of wine aged on ISS now on their way back to Earth with SpaceX Dragon Listen - 01:48 The upgraded SpaceX cargo Dragon undocked from the ISS on Jan. 12. NASA TV SpaceXs upgraded Dragon resupply spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday with a lot of precious cargo on board. When it splashes back down to Earth on Wednesday, it will return 12 bottles of wine and 320 grape ...

Observations from New Horizons at the edge of the solar system indicate there may be fewer galaxies than we thought.

Just 670 million years after the Big Bang, a quasar with a monstrous black hole dominated a growing galaxy.

Megalodon babies ate their unhatched siblings in the womb Its a shark-eat-shark world. Listen - 01:39 Screenshot from Discovery networks "Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives" TV show. Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET The megalodon was one of the most terrifying aquatic predators to ever stalk the Earths oceans, reaching at least 50 feet (15 meters) in length (yes, the 2018 film takes some liberties on that f...

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With the return trek to the office well underway, it’s nice to know that even if holidays seem to finish as quickly as they started, at least summer continues. Warmer summertime air and a stubborn high have MetService forecasting a pleasant week ahead for most Kiwis, with only couple of weather features around the fringes making for the contrary. “Fine for most,” exclaims MetService Meteorologist, Tui McInnes. “Most kiwis will benefit from nice weather this week,” McInnes says; “nic...

The aftermath of a white dwarf collision shows a never-before-seen type of star in a neon green nebula.