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Astronomers have spotted fairly quiet, LINER galaxies (left) fire up into quasars (right) in a matter of months
Space

Astronomers watch galaxies suddenly fire up into quasars

Normally things happen slowly out in space. It can take thousands, millions or even billions of years for stars and galaxies to evolve. But now astronomers have spotted an event that was thought to happen over millennia play out in a matter of months, as a usually-quiet galaxy suddenly fired up into an energetic quasar – and not just once, but in six different cases.
The Hobbit Hole-inspired Bux-End is the winner of the 2019 Cuprinol Shed of the Year competition
Architecture
Hobbit Hole-inspired Bux End takes 2019 Shed of the Year
The winner of the 2019 Cuprinol Shed of the Year has been announced. Buxton, Derbyshire's Chris Hield got the nod for his Hobbit-inspired Bux End.
A trivalent vaccine has achieved nearly 100-percent efficacy in early animal testing
Medical
Extremely promising new herpes vaccine moves closer to human trials
A novel herpes vaccine has achieved a nearly 100-percent success rate in animal testing, with researchers hoping to soon move into human safety and efficacy trials.
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"Big cat and dog spat" by Peter Haygarth, UK. Highly Commended 2019, Behaviour: Mammals. In a rare encounter, a lone male cheetah is set upon by a pack of African wild dogs. (Both species have disappeared from much of their former ranges, with fewer than 7,000 left of each, mainly due to habitat loss and fragmentation. Both exist at low densities.) Peter had been following the dogs by vehicle as they hunted in Zimanga Private Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A warthog had just escaped the pack when the leading dogs came across the big cat. At first, the dogs were wary, but as the rest of the 12-strong pack arrived, their confidence grew, and they began to encircle the cat, chirping with excitement. The elderly cheetah hissed and lunged back at the mob, his left ear tattered, the right one pinned back in the ruckus. As dust flew in the morning light, Peter kept his focus on the cat’s face. In a few minutes the spat was over as the cheetah fled.
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