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A botanical Pompeii: we found spectacular plant fossils from 30 million...
The Australian continent is now geologically stable. But volcanic rocks, lava flows and a contemporary landscape dotted with extinct volcanoes show this wasn’t always the case.Between 40 and 20...
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Your heart changes in size and shape with exercise – this can lead to heart...
Exercise has long been recognized by clinicians, scientists and public health officials as an important way to maintain health throughout a person’s lifespan. It improves overall fitness, helps build...
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Whales 'cannot out-sing' human noise pollution
Baleen whales have evolved a special voice box to help them to sing underwater -- but this could also make them uniquely vulnerable to being drowned out by human noise pollution, according to new...
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Private lunar lander achieves successful orbit ahead of Thursday touchdown...
ORLANDO, Fla. — A commercial company’s lunar lander launched from Kennedy Space Center last week successfully made it into the moon’s orbit on Wednesday ahead of its Thursday attempt to stick the...
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A brief history of famous Moon landings — and failures
A spaceship built by a company in Texas is poised for lunar touchdown on Thursday, returning America to the Moon after more than five decades in what promises to be a historic first for the private...
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Alabama university pauses IVF treatments after court ruling
An Alabama university temporarily halted in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Wednesday after the high court in the southern US state ruled that frozen embryos outside the womb are children.The...
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Disabled Japanese macaques survive by adjusting their behaviors and receiving...
Nina is a Japanese macaque, one of the red-faced monkeys famous for sitting in hot springs in Japan. Nina lives wild in the forest, but most days, along with her group, she visits the Awajishima...
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Gut bacteria may explain why grey squirrels outcompete reds – new research
Across large parts of the UK, the native red squirrel has been replaced by the grey squirrel, a North American species. As well as endangering reds, grey squirrels pose a threat to our woodlands...
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How we’re using maths and data to reveal why societies collapse
American humorist and writer Mark Twain is believed to have once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”I’ve been working as a historian and complexity scientist for the better...
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From bridge to chess, why men outperform women at ‘mindsports’ – and what to...
Why do men strongly outperform women at “mindsports” such as chess and bridge? Mindsports mainly use the brain and require skills such as memory, critical thinking, problem solving, strategic...
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Republican at CPAC: More people 'have died from wind turbines than nuclear...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) asserted without evidence that more people had died from wind turbines than nuclear power. Donalds made the remarks Thursday during a speech at CPAC. "This nutty Green New...
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America returns spaceship to the Moon, a private sector first
For the first time since the Apollo era, an American spaceship has landed on the Moon: an uncrewed commercial robot, funded by NASA to pave the way for US astronauts to return to Earth's cosmic...
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A 'reset' for your body? Scrutinizing the hype over juice cleanses
Who doesn't want to wake up in the morning full of energy and feeling great? This is what makers of juice cleanses - or juice fasts - promise you: a "reset" for your body. Sounds enticing, especially...
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Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven’t encountered before
Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century.In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned...
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Ticker shows climate inaction cost U.S. nearly $3,000 per second in 2023
After an unprecedented number of billion-dollar extreme weather disasters across the United States last year, advocacy groups on Friday released an updated "Cost of Inaction Ticker" estimating the...
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U.S. spaceship lying sideways after dramatic Moon touchdown
The first American spaceship to the Moon since the Apollo era is probably lying sideways following its dramatic landing, the company that built it said Friday, even as ground controllers work to...
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IQ tests: the danger of reading too much into them
Many people object to intelligence tests. Some say IQ test scores are too often abused. They says it’s unfair that when children “fail” these tests it can mean they receive a worse secondary education...
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The brightest object ever observed in the night sky is a black hole
A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than...
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2 million animals dead as extreme winter weather hits Mongolia
More than two million animals have died in Mongolia so far this winter, a government official said Monday, as the country endures extreme cold and snow.The landlocked country is no stranger to severe...
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A media psychologist explains the research behind ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Arthur’
To adult viewers, educational media content for children, such as “Sesame Street” or “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” may seem rather simplistic. The pacing is slow, key themes are often repeated and...
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