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Reading with Ellie Ellie's Video Blogs Ellie's 2020 Archives 2020 Coronavirus Blogs Crystalinks turns 25 - August 25, 2020

Ellie's World Blogs
Christmas Themes
Covid Baby Boom?
Remembering 2020
The Galactic Keyhole and Ancient Aliens
Celestial Alignments in December
Mystery of galaxy's missing dark matter solved
Monoliths 2020 and Beyond
Setting Sun, Cloud Spirits, UFOs, and Bar Code

Japanese space capsule carrying pristine asteroid samples lands in Australia

China now holds the world's last giant, single-dish telescope after the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed

China plants flag on moon

Most accurate map of our galaxy pinpoints 1.8 billion cosmic objects

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Crystals may help reveal hidden Kilauea Volcano behavior

New undersea supervolcano possibly discovered in northern Pacific Ocean

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Using a video game to understand the origin of emotions

Once hospitalized, Black patients with COVID-19 have lower risk of death than white

This Weekend: Mariah Carey spreads Christmas cheer on Apple TV+and Selena comes to Netflix

World's largest atom smasher could seed microscopic black holes

Physicists recorded the flowing sound of a 'perfect' fluid for the first time

Researchers observe what could be the first hints of dark bosons

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Astronomers Confirm EarthÕs Newest Mini-Moon Is Actually a Long-Lost Rocket

Researchers uncover key clues about the solar system's history

Hayabusa 2: Returning asteroid sample could help uncover the origins of life and the solar system

Voyager Mission Finds a New Type of Electron Burst at The Edge of Our Solar System

Drone catches Arecibo Observatory's last moments

China's Chang'e 5 probe lifts off from moon carrying lunar samples

Nasa to pay company $1 to collect rocks from moon

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Bond Fire in Southern California now 10% contained, two firefighters injured

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Lost islands beneath the North Sea survived a mega-tsunami 8,000 years ago

Ireland's Only 2 Dinosaur Bones Have Just Been Confirmed For The First Time

3000-year-old temple-era gold bead found by 9-year-old Jerusalem boy

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Warner Bros. will stream movies on HBO Max the same day they drop in theaters

With more than 700 theaters forced to close again

Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst

Astronomers Are Mystified by These Ghostly, Unexplained Circles Seen in Space

Gaia: Most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars

NASA: Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid

'Rare' meteor triggers sonic boom, brilliant flash over Lake Ontario

Elon Musk is Ôhighly confidentÕ SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026

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The U.S. Geological Survey registered a small earthquake in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania

43 earthquakes in 24 hours hit California-Nevada border

Six people missing after Alaska landslide

The Alps are growing taller

2020 Is on Track to Be Second-Hottest Year on Record

Santa Ana Winds and Dry Air Stoke California Fire Dange

Sediment cores from Dogger Littoral suggest Dogger Island survived ancient tsunami

Water samples reveal microplastics in remote Patagonian fjord system

Lightning ÔsuperboltsÕ have a unique formation mechanism, satellite studies suggest

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A baby born in Tennessee can lay claim to being the oldest baby ever born, in that she is believed to be the longest-frozen embryo ever successfully delivered in a live birth.

Small and large birth weight linked to genetics of mother and baby - except in tiniest babies

Autism study suggests connection between repetitive behaviors, gut problems

Neuroscientists Found Which Part of Our Brains Tells Real Words Apart From Srhlil

Scientists Invent a Microscope That Can Safely Look Straight Through Your Skull

Scientists reverse age-related vision loss, eye damage from glaucoma in mice

Feeling sore after exercise? Here's what science suggests helps (and what doesn't)

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COVID-19 caution fatigue: Why it happens, and 3 ways to prevent it

What social distancing does to a brain

U.S. tops 14 million Covid-19 cases, sets daily record for deaths, cases and hospitalizations

Covid-19 vaccines may have potentially unpleasant side effects

Map: Coronavirus cases are surging around the U.S. See where the hot spots are.

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They rank among some of the oldest known art in the world. Strange statuettes of female figures dating back to the Late Stone Age, many with heavily rounded breasts, buttocks, thighs, hips, and stomachs

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More Than 110,000 City Public School Students are Homeless, Report Says

The Soviet Spy Who Invented the First Major Electronic Instrument

Three Ex-Presidents - Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton fill leadership vacuum as Trump ignores worsening pandemic

Why does it matter if most Republican voters still think Biden lost?

Republicans brace for Trump rally in Georgia ahead of January runoffs

Meteor exploded and disintegrated in midair above Syracuse around noontime

Mystery of galaxy's missing dark matter solved

Black holes may not exist, but fuzzballs might, wild theory suggests

Scientists discover new way to measure turbulence of large planets and exoplanets

Videos: Watch China spacecraft land on the moon in this amazing video

China spacecraft collects moon samples to take back to Earth

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Sydney storm sets bell tower ablaze and cuts power to thousands

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Gene that protects against osteoarthritis identified

There Are 6 Human Chronotypes, Not Just Morning Larks And Night Owls, Study Says

New Study Reveals The Content of People's Dreams During This Weird Pandemic Time

It Now Looks Like COVID-19 Was Already in The US in December 2019

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A 37-Million-Year-Old 'Sabre-Toothed Tiger' Just Went Up For Auction

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Bill Barr has sounded the death knell on Trump's wild claims

Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Art is harmony.
Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of
tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under
the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

American anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, geologist and museum director who helped to establish professional archaeology in the United States. Holmes was regarded as a master in the scientific documentation of landscapes. His achievements included important publications on Indian cultures in prehistory and on Maya Civilization at Chichen Itza.

China's Chang'e 5 lands on the moon to collect the 1st fresh lunar samples in decades

Broken Arecibo telescope collapses, ending an era of alien-hunting

Several constellations to see in December

Australian scientists map millions of galaxies with new telescope

Astronomers Just Mapped 1 Million Previously Unknown Galaxies, And You Can Take a Tour

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Neurological diseases of the brain such as dementia, autism and schizophrenia are now a growing social problem

Study finds some primary school-aged children self-harm, as experts call for earlier intervention

A Baby Was Born With Protective Antibodies After Mom Had COVID-19 During Pregnancy

How HIV became the virus we can treat

AI Solves 50-Year-Old Biology 'Grand Challenge' Decades Before Experts Predicted

Rock-a-bye - Why vibrations lead to sleepiness

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Major storm hits U.S. East Coast, leaving more than 230 000 customers without power

Researchers explore population size, density in rise of centralized power in antiquity

What will the climate be like when Earth's next supercontinent forms?

Early human landscape modifications discovered in Amazonia

Revealed: The lost Doggerland archipelago that SURVIVED the tsunami that cut Britain off from Europe 8,000 years ago and became a 'staging post' for early farmers arriving from the continent

Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon surges to 12-year high

Researchers find that building footbridges positively affects rural economies in flood-prone areas

Chinese submarine reaches the deepest place on Earth

Nemonte Nenquimo - A female indigenous leader from the Ecuadorean Amazon is one of the winners of the Goldman environmental prize, which recognizes grassroots activism

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Researchers offer new theory on 'Venus' figurines

Tens of Thousands of 12,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings Found in Colombia

Newly discovered Amazon rock art show the rainforest's earliest inhabitants living with giant Ice Age animals

Animals Are Using UtahÕs Largest Wildlife Overpass Earlier Than Expected

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Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision

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The SmithsonianÕs Evolving Role as the NationÕs Knowledge Partner

Suburbs are becoming increasingly diverse Ð urban development and the pandemic will transform them further

How politics drive our personal relationships - and even where we live

Two thirds of school-age kids without internet access: UN

Study: Students falling behind in math during pandemic

New study shows strong links between music and math, reading achievement

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William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in presidential election

Dr. Scott Atlas, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, has resigned from the Trump administration

Georgia's lieutenant governor joins state GOP officials in rejecting Trump's 'misinformation'

Our solar system will disintegrate sooner than we thought

Dangerous 'naked' black holes could be hiding in the universe

Swarms of 'primordial' black holes might fill our universe

Neutrinos Prove Our Sun Is Undergoing a Second Type of Fusion in Its Core

New tech can get oxygen, fuel from Mars's salty water

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Thousands flee as Indonesian volcano bursts to life

Strong mag. 6.3 earthquake - Chile-Argentina Border Region

Deep-sea volcanoes: Windows into the subsurface

Seismic guidelines underestimate impact of 'The Big One' on metro Vancouver buildings

East Coast braces for snow, heavy rain in first major storm system of the fall

Historic 2020 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close

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The Amazing Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot

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A mysterious Arthur C Clarke-style monolith appears in Romania after unexplained metal monolith vanished from Utah - so who (or what) put it there?
It was spotted a few metres away from the well-known archaeological landmark the Petrodava Dacian Fortress, which is the oldest historical monument in Piatra Neamt.

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 8° Gemini