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Daily Strange: Cosmic Year

Written By: Ivey Ingalls-Rubin The planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Each orbit for earth is one year. This you all know. Whilst this is all going on, our entire solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our sun and the solar system move around 800 thousand kilometers per hour, which is about 500 ...

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Daily Strange: Strange New Brain Cell

Written By: Ivey Ingalls-Rubin, Staff Writer A strange new shape of brain cell leaves neuroscientists baffled at what the function of these neurons might be. It is true that neurons come in various shapes and sizes; however, they follow a very basic blueprint. The structure consists of a cell body that has protruding gangling appendages called dendrites and axons. In ...

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Daily Strange: Where exactly does that old book smell come from?

Written By: Ivey Ingalls-Rubin, Staff Writer Old books are known to bear a glorious smell within their pages. It truly makes any book nerd weak at the knees. During an interview with The Telegraph, Matija Strlic described that beautiful smell as “A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness, ...

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