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08 Oct 15:33

2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Researchers Who Unraveled How Cells Sense Oxygen

by Ed Cara on Gizmodo, shared by Cheryl Eddy to io9

A trio of researchers from the U.S. and the UK has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine, the first of five prizes to be announced this week. On Monday in Sweden, the Nobel committee announced that Americans William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg Semenza, along with Peter Ratcliffe, would split the nearly million-dollar prize…

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05 Jul 07:26

We Now Know Some Of The Plot Before Star Wars: The Force Awakens

by Germain Lussier

Years ago, we thought the destruction of the Death Star at the end of Return of the Jedi marked the beginning of peace in a galaxy far, far, away. Unfortunately for our heroes, it didn’t and now we know a little bit of what happened between that and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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05 Jul 07:23

11 Great Songs That Prove The Misfits Were Better At Girl Power Than Jem

by K. Tempest Bradford

One of the saddest things about the live-action Jem & the Holograms movie is that Jem’s rival band, the Misfits, are nowhere to be found. That’s incredibly dumb—because the Misfits are an integral part of why the 80s cartoon was so amazing. And, if you believe the opening theme, their songs are actually better.

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