Top news for December 21, 2008

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India launches a huge military communications satellite to orbit using its most powerful rocket (video)

SpaceX launches private space station pathfinder 'Haven Demo,' 17 other satellites to orbit (video)

Physicists Have Mathematically Proven the Universe Is Not a Simulation

“Really Bizarre” – Physicists Uncover a Quantum Material That Breaks All the Rules

How Used Coffee Grounds May Fend Off Parkinson’s

A prehistoric battle just rewrote T. rex’s story

After 25 years, scientists solve the bird-eating bat mystery

A new microscopy breakthrough is revealing the oceans’ invisible life

Soil microbes remember drought and help plants survive

Physicists argue that the universe’s fundamental structure transcends algorithmic computation based on mathematical proofs and cannot be a computer-generated reality, suggesting that the simulation hypothesis does not fit under current physics.