2021-04-14 13:33 |
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Ancient people may have created cave art while hallucinating...
Stone age people may have deliberately ventured into oxygen-depleted caves to paint while having out-of-body experiences and hallucinations, researchers say.... |
2021-04-14 13:13 |
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Experts worried after 4 dead gray whales wash up around San Francisco...
Four dead gray whales have washed up in San Francisco Bay in eight days, prompting fears that the species is under threat in the area.... |
2021-04-14 12:35 |
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Your most distant cousin doesn't even have an anus...
No animal is less related to you than a sea sponge, and they've got the genes and nerveless, anus-less bodies to prove it.... |
2021-04-14 12:33 |
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Telescope lasers could give humanity an edge in war against space junk...
Space junk is a growing problem. Scientists want to fight it with lasers that can de-twinkle the stars.... |
2021-04-14 12:30 |
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Pet dog buried 6,000 years ago is earliest evidence of its domestication in Arabia...
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered bones at a burial site that reveal the domestication of dogs in the area happened much earlier than previously believed.... |
2021-04-14 11:00 |
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Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea...
The Japanese government announced plans to dump more than 1 million tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, beginning in two years.... |
2021-04-13 20:15 |
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Long-necked dinosaurs migrated hundreds of miles, 'stomach stones' reveal...
These stones were carried more than 600 miles in the 'belly of a dinosaur.'... |
2021-04-13 18:01 |
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Mom & baby giraffe trapped on a sinking island rescued in months-long operation...
A months-long rescue operation transported the last of nine stranded giraffes to their new home in a mainland sanctuary.... |
2021-04-13 17:30 |
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After 48-year search, physicists discover ultra-rare 'triple glueball' particle...
A never-before-seen particle known as the odderon has revealed itself in the hot guts of two particle colliders, confirming a 48-year-old theory.... |
2021-04-13 17:28 |
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Fireball meteor burns up over South Florida...
A sparkling fireball zoomed across the sky near West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday night (April 13).... |
2021-04-13 15:22 |
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A third of Antarctic ice shelves could collapse at current pace of warming...
A third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves would risk collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.... |
2021-04-13 13:48 |
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US may pause J&J coronavirus vaccines due to rare cases of blood clots...
The CDC and FDA are recommending a pause in administering the J&J vaccine to investigate reports of 6 cases of rare blood clots.... |
2021-04-13 12:33 |
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100,000-year-old Neanderthal footprints show children playing in the sand...
Fossilized footprints on a beach in Spain were made about 100,000 years ago by a family of Neanderthals, including children who jumped about as if playing in the sand.... |
2021-04-13 11:00 |
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Can vaccinated people still spread COVID-19? Huge study tackles question...
A federally funded study taking place at 21 college campuses will test how well Moderna's COVID-19 shot prevents vaccinated people from spreading the coronavirus.... |
2021-04-13 11:00 |
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UK coronavirus variant not more deadly, just spreads more easily, studies find...
The findings contradict some early research from U.K. health officials.... |
2021-04-13 11:00 |
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Strange blue structures glow on Mars in new NASA image...
The north pole of Mars looks even more alien.... |
2021-04-12 18:32 |
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5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall on Earth each year...
Each year, 5,200 tons of space dust fall to Earth, far outweighing larger meteorites that hit the planet.... |
2021-04-12 17:14 |
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Antibody cocktail helps prevent coronavirus infections in same households...
A monoclonal antibody cocktail developed by Regeneron reduced risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 by 81% in household contacts living with a positive case, company said.... |
2021-04-12 11:35 |
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Baby born with three penises...
A baby boy born in Iraq with three penises is the first reported human case of triphallia. He's doing well after surgery.... |
2021-04-12 11:30 |
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Yuri Gagarin: How the first man in space sparked a conspiracy theory...
Before the cosmonaut orbited the Earth, rumors abounded that someone else already had.... |
2021-04-12 01:05 |
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NASA delays Mars helicopter Ingenuity's 1st flight to April 14...
NASA has delayed the first flight of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the vehicle's last test ended earlier than planned.... |
2021-04-11 12:14 |
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World's largest recorded sawfish washes up dead in Florida...
The longest sawfish ever measured washed up in Florida, not far from another large specimen.... |
2021-04-11 11:00 |
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Did Marie Antoinette really say 'Let them eat cake'?...
No, it was part of a concerted and sexist effort by revolutionaries to undermine the queen.... |
2021-04-10 12:00 |
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NASA to land 1st person of color on the moon with Artemis program...
NASA will land the first person of color in addition to the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program, NASA's Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk revealed today (April 9).... |
2021-04-10 11:58 |
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is 'go' for historic 1st flight on Sunday...
Humanity's first helicopter on Mars has been cleared for a historic takeoff.... |
2021-04-10 11:00 |
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Why do cats have belly 'pouches'?...
There are three possible explanations.... |
2021-04-10 11:00 |
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NASA detects rare 'double quasar' in ancient corner of the universe...
Finding this rare object was like 'a needle in a haystack,' the researchers said.... |
2021-04-09 20:50 |
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3,000-year-old 'Lost Golden City' discovered in Egypt...
Archaeologists have found what may be the greatest Egyptian discovery since King Tut's tomb.... |
2021-04-09 19:50 |
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Pfizer requests FDA authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine in kids 12 to 15...
The company hopes to make the vaccine available to the age group before the start of the fall school year.... |
2021-04-09 18:47 |
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A woman's debilitating chronic itch disappeared after she started using marijuana...
A woman's chronic itch defied all types of treatment, from steroids to opioids to light therapy, but it finally dissipated after her doctors told her to try cannabis.... |
2021-04-09 17:02 |
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Two satellites might collide at 32,000 mph over the Arctic today...
There's a one-in-five chance of two large satellites colliding at a relative velocity of 32,679 mph (52,592 kph) over the Siberian Arctic Friday (April 9) — an event that would spew 1.9 tons (1,700 kilograms) of debris across Earth's orbital... |
2021-04-09 17:02 |
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Explosive volcanic eruption rocks Caribbean island, as evacuations continue...
La Soufrire volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted explosively Friday, spewing ash tens of thousands of feet into the air.... |
2021-04-09 13:43 |
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Quick guide: COVID-19 vaccines in use and how they work...
Here's a quick guide to the COVID-19 vaccines now in use around the world.... |
2021-04-09 12:29 |
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Astronomers detect a bright-blue bridge of stars, and it's about to blow...
Astrophysicists have found a new region of the Milky Way, and it's filled with searingly hot, bright-blue stars that are about to explode.... |
2021-04-09 11:48 |
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The Great North American Solar Eclipse of 2024 is just 3 years away...
Three years from today, on Monday, April 8, 2024, more than half a billion people across North America have the chance to see another Great American Solar Eclipse.... |
2021-04-09 11:43 |
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These endangered monkeys kept getting hit by cars. Scientists had a clever solution....
Adding speed bumps to a road in a national park in Zanzibar has reduced the number of collisions between cars and one of Africa's rarest primates.... |
2021-04-09 11:00 |
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'Dark sirens' could solve one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology...
A team has offered a way for gravitational wave events called dark sirens to resolve a crisis in cosmology... |
2021-04-09 11:00 |
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Europe's oldest map, a stone slab, unearthed in France...
The map likely represents an area along the River Odet in western France.... |
2021-04-08 21:27 |
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People are taking an animal deworming drug for COVID-19, and it's a really bad idea...
Misinformation about ivermectin has led some people to take the drug for COVID-19.... |
2021-04-08 18:40 |
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Turtles complete seemingly impossible journey thanks to a hidden 'corridor' through the Pacific...
Loggerhead turtles use "thermal corridors" to swim from Japan to Mexico, a new study suggests.... |
2021-04-08 18:00 |
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First 'Homo' species left Africa with ape-like brains...
Early humans dispersed out of African with "primitive" brains.... |
2021-04-08 17:44 |
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Black holes: The darkest objects in the universe...
Find out what black holes are, who discovered them, how we know they exist and what would happen if you fell into a black hole.... |
2021-04-08 15:31 |
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Earth nearly lost all its oxygen 2.3 billion years ago...
The permanent oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere took twice as long as previously believed and finally finished up to 100 million years later than expected.... |
2021-04-08 14:20 |
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Masquerading, deadly snake discovered and named after shape-shifting Chinese goddess...
Scientists in China have discovered a new species of deadly snake and have named it after a shape-shifting snake goddess from Chinese mythology.... |
2021-04-08 11:00 |
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'Ghost forests' are invading the North Carolina coast...
No leaves, no limbs — just hundreds of grey, lifeless trunks.... |
2021-04-08 11:00 |
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Cells age prematurely in those with depression, study suggests...
People with major depression had accelerated cellular aging by an average of two years compared to healthy controls.... |
2021-04-07 21:00 |
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Rare autoimmune disorder caused a woman's nose to collapse...
A rare autoimmune disorder decimated the cartilage and bone in a woman's nose, causing her nose to collapse and sink into her face.... |
2021-04-07 19:05 |
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A tiny, wobbling muon just shook particle physics to its core...
But this may not be the end of the story.... |
2021-04-07 18:36 |
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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine causes very rare blood clots, EU regulator says...
The COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford can sometimes cause unusual blood clots, accompanied by abnormally low platelets.... |
2021-04-07 17:42 |
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Medieval gold coin hoards and skull ring discovered in Wales...
"Memento Mori" was written around the skull on the ring.... |