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Thousands have flocked to a church in Argentina where an image of Christ is said to be oozing blood.A mysterious red substance has been witnessed running from the face of Christ in the image which depicts the Last Supper. A local priest has said that he believes the "blood" is coming from the crown of thorns worn on Christ"s head. Thousands of pilgrims have overwhelmed a small church in Argentina after blood was said to be oozing down the face of an image of Jesus Christ.

A red substance was photographed running from the forehead of Jesus and down his cheek in a church depiction of the Last Supper.

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A new study has suggested that the mysterious dark matter and energy in our universe may not actually exist at all.Planets, stars and other recognisable componenets of our universe make up only 4 percent of the total mass with dark matter and energy accounting for the rest of it, but now this has been called in to question and scientists are trying to determine if themanner in which this has been calculated is fundamentally wrong.

Dark matter and energy, the mysterious forces thought to make up 96 per cent of the universe, may not exist according to a groundbreaking study. British scientists have claimed that the method used to calculate the make-up of the universe may be wrong.

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In a quest to understand how life began on Earth, scientists have discovered that a blast of ultraviolet light may have been the spoon that stirred the simmering primordial soup. The research demonstrates a more commonplace scenario for creating RNA -- believed to be an early coding system for life.

And that opens a wider door for life's evolution not only on Earth, but possibly elsewhere in the solar system and beyond. Researchers at Georgia Tech and the University of Roma "La Sapienza" focused on the molecule formamide, the simplest structure containing the required four building blocks of life -- carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. Previous studies have already shown how heating formamide in a mineral stew creates most of the ingredients for ribonucleic acid, commonly known as RNA.

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Palaeontologists have discovered two mammal hairs encased in 100 million-year-old amber. While older 2D fossilised hairs are known, those preserved in the amber are the oldest 3D specimens known. The hairs, found alongside a fly pupa in amber uncovered in southwest France, are remarkably similar to hair found on modern mammals.

That implies that the shape and structure of mammal hair has remained unchanged over a vast period of time. "We have 2D hair imprints as early as the Middle Jurassic," says Dr Romain Vullo of the University of Rennes, France, who discovered the hair. The Jurassic Period lasted from 200 to 145 millions of years ago, followed by the Cretaceous Period which lasted to 65 million years ago.

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