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#Most Interesting Science News articles of the WeekThis week we have zebra stripes on the Earth the most accurate timekeeper and even weird techni-quarks.</Don't miss these!</Strange stripelike features in Earth's magnetic field are caused by the planet's spin and not by the constant bombardment of solar particles as previously thought scientists say.</The so-called zebra stripes form when the electric field around Earth generated by the planet's rotation previously thought to be too weak to impact the fast-moving particles creates a striped pattern in the inner electron belt.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44583-earth-magnetic-field-zebra-stripes-source. html target=blank>'Zebra Stripes'in Earth's Magnetic field Have Surprising Source </a p>A tomb newly excavated at an ancient cemetery in Egypt would have boasted a pyramid 7 meters (23 feet) high at its entrance archaeologists say.</The tomb found at the site of Abydos dates back around 3300 years. Within one of its vaulted burial chambers a team of archaeologists found a finely crafted sandstone sarcophagus painted red which was created for a scribe named Horemheb. The sarcophagus has images of several Egyptian gods on it and hieroglyphic inscriptions recording spells from the Book of the Dead that helped one enter the afterlife.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44476-ancient-egyptian-tomb-with-pyramid-entrance-discovered. html target=blank>3300-Year-Old Tomb with Pyramid Entrance Discovered in Egypt</a p>A Texas couple has captured what is being called a baby chupacabra the legendary animal said to roam the countryside in search of blood. The Ratcliffe chupacabra as it's been dubbed was found Sunday in a tree on the couple's property in Ratcliffe Texas . But upon closer examination it becomes clear that the mysterious creature couldn't possibly be the legendary beast.</The defining feature of the chupacabra is that it's a vampire: Chupacabra means goat sucker in Spanish named so because it is said to drain the blood from animals such as goats chickens and other livestock.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44617-texas-chupacabra-mystery. html target=blank>Texas'Chupacabra'Turns Out to Be Imposter</a p>A new atomic clock unveiled Thursday (April 3) is three times more accurate than the one previously used to keep official time in the United states making it the most precise timekeeper yet developed.</The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) an agency of the U s. Department of commerce said the new clock known as NIST-F2 will serve as the time and frequency standard for the country. The ultraprecise atomic clock is so exact it is capable of maintaining perfect time for 300 million years neither gaining nor losing one second during that time said Thomas O'Brian chief of the NIST's Time and Frequency Division.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44619-most-accurate-atomic-clock. html target=blank>New Atomic clock Is Most Accurate Timekeeper Yet</a p>Scientists have pinned down the birth date of the moon to within 100 million years of the birth of the solar system the best timeline yet for the evolution of our planet's natural satellite.</This new discovery about the origin of the moon may help solve a mystery about why the moon and the Earth appear virtually identical in makeup investigators added.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44585-moon-age-revealed-lunar-mystery. html target=blank>Moon's Age Revealed and a Lunar Mystery May be solved</a p>Something is rotten in the state of Denmark Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet. Archaeologists working at a Danish site might agree with the Bard after discovering barrels from a latrine that dates back to the 14th century.</And yes poop still stinks even after 700 years.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44597-medieval-poop-toilet-latrine-denmark. html target=blank>Medieval Poop Still Stinks Experts Discover</a p >About 112 million years ago a long-necked sauropod dinosaur traversed some intertidal flats near what Is rose now Glen Texas. Coming after it perhaps hours or days later or perhaps hot on its tail in a dinosaur chase scene a meat-eating theropod followed overlaying some of the sauropod's footprints with its own.</This snippet of the Cretaceous ended up frozen in rock and paleontologists discovered the prints as early as 1917. But an excavation in 1940 led to a third of the trackway vanishing. Now researchers have reconstructed the entire trackway all 148 feet (45 meters) of it using old photography and new technology.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44575-dinosaur-chase-reconstruction. html target=blank>112-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur'Chase'Reconstructed in 3d</a p >The idea that our universe may be just one among many out there has intrigued modern cosmologists for some time. But it looks like this multiverse concept might actually have appeared albeit unintentionally back in the middle Ages.</When scientists analyzed a 13th-century Latin text and applied modern mathematics to it they found hints that The english philosopher who wrote it in 1225 was already toying with concepts similar to the multiverse.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44539-multiverse-concept-middle-ages-grosseteste. html target=blank>How a Medieval Philosopher Dreamed Up the'Multiverse'</a p>The Higgs boson a particle thought to explain how other particles get their mass is tiny but it may not be the tiniest particle yet. Theories have predicted long the existence of even smaller particles that might make up the Higgs and recent research suggests these pip-squeaks dubbed techni-quarks are likely lurking in the universe.</However it will take the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the world's most powerful particle accelerator or the next generation of colliders to spot these Higgs components saidthomas Ryttov a particle physicist at the University of Southern Denmark.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44559-techni-quarks-may-lurk-inside-higgs-boson. html target=blank>Weird'Techni-Quarks'May Lurk Inside Higgs Boson Particle</a p>An experimental mini heart could help people with a medical condition that causes blood to pool in their veins by pumping their blood through the vessels and back to the heart researchers say.</The mini hearts are tiny pumps consisting of a cuff of heart muscle cells. Once implanted to surround a vein they could contract rhythmically squeezing blood through the vessel. A patient's own stem cells could be used to make the mini heart decreasing the chances of tissue rejection researchers say.</Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/44609-mini-hearts-could-pump-blood-through-veins. html target=blank>'Mini Hearts'Could Pump Blood Through Faulty Veins</a p p

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