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TECTONICS + MAGNETIC SHIELD. “The approximate coincidence of the Ediacarian biological leap forward with the onset of plate tectonics makes a connection between them possible. The link may be that Earth's asthenosphere and its internally generated strong dipolar magnetic field both originated then as a result of Sun/Earth/Moon orbital mechanics.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

DISCONNECT. “At the same time, theories that either predict the existence of nuclear antimatter in segregated domains or its total absence in the current Universe have no firm foundation in observational data.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

NO EXPLANATION. “Anti-H atoms exhibit exactly the same emission spectra as H atoms. Limits on proton lifetime does not provide evidence for baryon number violating interactions.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER CONFOUNDER. “Anti-D, anti-3He, and anti-4He have been produced with the same relative rates as D and 3,4He in heavy ions collisions.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

UNSOLVED RIDDLE. “Matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the greatest mysteries of current cosmology: we have no evidence so far from ground experiments for a mechanism which could explain baryogenesis.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

PHENOMENAL VIDEO of starling murmuring. Breathtaking. Photo from: https://lnkd.in/evZfgSMD https://vimeo.com/31158841 View in LinkedIn

Paper Nautilus octopus’s hectocotylus, or detachable autonomous penis and the brood sack of the female. https://lnkd.in/e7h9CDcN View in LinkedIn

MURMURINGS. “Our results suggest that flocks behave as critical systems, poised to respond maximally to environmental perturbations. Whatever the origin of the scale-free behavior is, the very low value of the exponent γ that we find, i.e., the fact that the correlation is almost not decaying with the distance, is by far the most surprising and exotic feature of bird flocks. How starlings achieve such a strong correlation remains a mystery to us.” https://lnkd.in/eUVrNwuW View in LinkedIn

STRANGE MATING. Argonautidae, or paper nautiluses, are pelagic octopuses, and the dwarf males have an exaggerated copulatory tentacle equipped with a with penis with tentacles, which detaches during breeding into an autonomous missile called a hectocotylus, and swims about for some time seeking females. Females sometimes keep the little creature inside the brood case until her eggs are mature. This strange detachment can survive for 7 hours without water, This penis has been mistaken for a parasitic worm, and for a new male form of the octopus. https://lnkd.in/e7h9CDcN View in LinkedIn

ANTIPARTICLE SAMPLE. “Our planet is constantly bombarded by Cosmic Rays (CRs), high-energy charged particles reaching us from regions of space external to the Solar System.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn