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Writer Fuel: “Replica” Sword Turns Out to Be Real, and 3,000 Years Old

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A “replica” sword that has been part of the collection at the Field Museum in Chicago for nearly a century is actually a 3,000-year-old artifact from the Bronze Age. Curators made the shocking discovery while preparing for an upcoming exhibition called “First Kings of Europe.” The 3-foot-long (91 centimeters) bronze sword had been in storage … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Space Hurricanes Could Help Us Find More Exoplanets

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Young stars are surrounded by chaos: Clouds of gas, dust and ice swirl about in a so-called protoplanetary disk. And when gravity binds this material together, planets are born. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers developed a new technique to measure and date infant exoplanets forming in these protoplanetary disks. By … Read more

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Review: Blood of the Basilisk – Molly J. Bragg

Blood of the Basilisk - Molly J. Bragg

Genre: Fantasy Reviewer: Lucy Get It At Amazon | Publisher About The Book Kota, a sorceress who works as a detective with the Grimmani Detective Agency, is on her way to a new posting on the world of Proximus. She’s been charged with transporting a mystical artifact called a Keystone that will allow Proximus to build a … Read more

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Astronomy: Some Asteroids are Space Pillows – Piles of Hard to Destroy Rubble

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Dust collected from the surface of an ancient, peanut-shaped and “potentially-hazardous” asteroid has revealed that some space rocks are much bouncier and harder to destroy than first thought — posing concerns about Earth’s long-term safety. The analysis of three tiny dust particles — gathered from the surface of the 1640-foot-long (500 meters) rubble pile asteroid … Read more

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Review: The Eidolon – K.D. Edwards

The Eidolon - K.D. Edwards

Genre: Urban Fantasy Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon About The Book In the epic conclusion to K.D. Edwards’ first blockbuster trilogy in The Tarot Sequence series, readers followed Rune on a race against time as an age-old threat rose to threaten the city of New Atlantis. Now, for the first time, The Eidolon tells … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Could Aliens Be Using Our Sun as a Node in a Giant Internet?

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Are aliens using a quirk of the sun’s gravity to transmit information through an interstellar communication network? For the first time ever, astronomers explored this intriguing possibility and scanned for signals coming from hidden nonhuman probes orbiting the sun. So far, the method hasn’t turned up signs of spacefaring aliens, but it represents a promising … Read more

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Review: Eclipse – Herman Steuernagel

Eclipse - Herman Steuernagel

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Dystopian Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon About The Book Django had everything he ever wanted… now he’s lost it all. When Django uncovered an unexpected truth, he didn’t know it would end the lives of nearly everyone he cares about. Left only with his sister, his best friend and an … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Can Life Make a World Inhabitable?

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Once life gains even the tiniest foothold on a planet, it may have the power to transform that world, forcing us to broaden our definition of “habitable,” new research suggests. We don’t really know where life might arise. We have only one example of a life-hosting planet, Earth, which started to get interesting perhaps only … Read more

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Review: The Truthspoken Heir – Novae Caelum

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Genre: Space Fantasy Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon About The Book RESIST THE CALL. CARE FOR YOURSELF. LOVE THE ENEMY. Arianna’s always been the perfect Truthspoken Heir, the obedient future ruler of her interstellar kingdom. But when Arianna’s royal shapeshifting abilities fail her publicly and disastrously at her engagement ball, she suddenly finds herself … Read more

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Writer Fuel: What;s a Buchdahl Star? And Do They Exist?

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An elusive object in space has posed a riddle for scientists. It looks like a black hole. It acts like a black hole. It may even smell like a black hole. But it has one crucial difference: It has no event horizon, meaning that you can escape its gravitational clutches if you try hard enough. … Read more