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		Explosions in Space May Have Initiated Ancient Extinction on Earth
		Scientists at NASA and the University of Kansas say that a mass extinction on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could have been triggered by a star explosion called a gamma-ray burst. The scientists do not have direct evidence that such a burst activated the ancient extinction. The strength of their work is their atmospheric modeling—essentially a “what if” scenario. The scientists calculated… more...

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