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71PhysicsA black hole circling a wormhole would emit weird gravitational waves
Gravitational wave detectors have already spotted mysterious black holes. But something even stranger might be next: wormholes. A black hole spiraling into...
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73HealthCOVID-19 causes smell loss: Olfactory support cells, not neurons, are vulnerable to novel coronavirus infection
Temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is the main neurological symptom and one of the earliest and most commonly reported indicators of...
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129PhysicsJust Three Orbiting Black Holes Can Break Time-Reversal Symmetry
Most of the laws of physics don’t care which direction time is travelling. Forwards, backwards… either way, the laws work exactly the...
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111TechnologyData Are Finally In: Electric Cars Really Do Produce Less CO2 Pollution
Electric cars absolutely do produce less CO2 than gas guzzlers, a new study has confirmed – countering claims that carbon emissions from...
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116EnvironmentA Glacier in Antarctica Has Retreated With Astonishing Speed, Threatening Collapse
The ice sheet that sits atop Earth’s deepest land canyon stands on shaky ground. A detailed mapping of Denman Glacier in East...
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110HealthCoronaviruses Similar to The COVID-19 One Have Just Been Found in Pangolins
A search for the ‘missing link’ in the chain of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has uncovered two close cousins of the new...
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126SpaceAnalysis Has Failed to Find a Dark Matter ‘Glow’ in The Milky Way’s Halo
Once again, a search for signs of dark matter outside its gravitational effect has turned up zilch – but this time it’s...
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150TechnologyScientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells
In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have...
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147EnvironmentMakeshift Koala Hospital in Australia Scrambles to Save Animals Hurt in Bushfires
Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park’s makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or...
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154PhysicsThe fastest-spinning object ever made could help spot quantum friction in a vacuum
To detect the quantum friction of empty space, scientists are going for a spin.A twirling nanoparticle, suspended in a laser beam inside...
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143PhysicsScientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the...
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128HealthPlaying With Babies Can Make Your Brain Waves Sync Up Together
Playing with a tiny human is one of those small pleasures in life where you really feel like you’re connecting with a...
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119EnvironmentRepresenting 500 Million Citizens, The EP Officially Declares a Climate Emergency
The European Parliament declared a climate emergency on Thursday, in a largely symbolic move that nonetheless increases pressure on member states to...
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191HealthNew Details About The Infamous ‘CRISPR Babies’ Experiment Have Just Been Revealed
More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui’s attempt to use CRISPR technology to modify human...
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151SpaceAstronomers Have Caught This Pulsar Glitching For The Very First Time
After keeping a dead star under close observation for over two decades, astronomers have finally caught it acting out. A pulsar called...
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158PhysicsThis New Type of ‘Quantum Camouflage’ Can Hide Heat Signatures From Infrared Vision
A unique material that appears to decouple an object’s temperature from the amount of thermal radiation it produces could provide a new...
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205EnvironmentAustralia Is Being Ravaged by The Worst-Ever Heatwave, And That Says a Lot
Australia may set a record for its hottest day this week, as temperatures soar past 104 degrees (40 Celsius) in most of...
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160SpaceNASA Just Observed a Totally New Kind of Magnetic Eruption on The Sun
The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas, a continual flow of super-hot plasma creates ropes...
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128HealthStudy paves way to better understanding, treatment of arthritis
Oregon State University research has provided the first complete, cellular-level look at what’s going on in joints afflicted by osteoarthritis, a debilitating...
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137Life ScienceResearchers discover brain circuit linked to food impulsivity
Within seconds, you’ve ordered a tub of the stuff and have eaten several handfuls.Impulsivity, or responding without thinking about the consequences of...
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235EnvironmentUnderwater Loudspeakers Make Fish Flock to Dead Coral in Radical Experiment
The desperate search for ways to help the world’s coral reefs rebound from the devastating effects of climate change has given rise...
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223SpaceA Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System
How typical is our Solar System? The question bedevils planetary scientists, but making detections of analogous features in other planetary systems is...
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266SpaceNASA’s New Planet-Hunting Space Telescope
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these...
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169HealthBrain Scans Confirm There’s No Difference Between Boy And Girl Brains Doing Math
There are no gender differences in the brain when it comes to maths processing ability, a new study has confirmed. This could...
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205PhysicsNew Quantum Physics Suggests Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist
Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum...
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204TechnologyAn ‘Unsinkable’ Metal That Floats Even When Damaged
It took just 2 1/2 hours for the Titanic to sink after it collided with an iceberg in 1912.Before the disaster, the...
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202EnvironmentAntidepressants Affecting Fish in a Strange Way, Study Shows
Immersed in a ‘drug soup‘ of pharmaceutical pollutants, aquatic wildlife acts in ways that puts them at risk of becoming an easily...
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220HealthAlgae inside blood vessels could act as oxygen factories
CHICAGO — It’s a strange mash-up, but it works: Algae living inside tadpoles’ blood vessels can pump out oxygen for nearby oxygen-starved...
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222Life ScienceSleep may trigger rhythmic power washing in the brain
Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first...
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195ChemistryPlant-based fire retardants may offer a less toxic way to tame flames
Flame retardants are going green. Using compounds from plants, researchers are concocting a new generation of flame retardants, which one day could...
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184ChemistryBrett McGuire searches space for the chemistry of life
In a different reality, space might smell like almonds. After all, scientists surveying the chemicals in the cosmos have found benzonitrile; just...
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216ChemistryMolecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated
When things heat up, most solids expand as higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate more dramatically, necessitating more space. But some solid...
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193PhysicsPhysics Nobel awarded for discoveries about the universe’s evolution and exoplanets
Two sets of cosmic discoveries have garnered the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics. Half of the prize of 9 million Swedish kronor...
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208PhysicsPhysicists have found quasiparticles that mimic hypothetical dark matter axions
An elusive hypothetical particle comes in imitation form. Lurking within a solid crystal is a phenomenon that is mathematically similar to proposed...
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202NatureHundreds of Mysterious ‘Ice Eggs’ Have Washed Up on a Finland Beach
Ice comes in many shapes and sizes, from mountainous icebergs to tiny flurries of snow. But few of us will ever come...
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173SpaceTESS Data May Already Hold a Clue to The Mysterious Planet Nine
There seems to be something large lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System, messing with the orbits of some of...
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228EnvironmentGeology, not CO2, controlled monsoon intensity in Asia’s ancient past
Shifting tectonic plates, not atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, controlled the strength of the powerful East Asian monsoon throughout its history, scientists say....
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190PhysicsGoogle officially lays claim to quantum supremacy
Quantum supremacy is here, researchers from Google claim. For the first time, a quantum computer has solved a problem that can’t be...
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225TechnologyA will to survive might take AI to the next level
Fiction is full of robots with feelings. Like that emotional kid David, played by Haley Joel Osment, in the movie A.I. Or...
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241HealthMesmerising Video Shows Waves of Spinal Fluid Washing Over The Brain During Sleep
We are quite literally having our brains washed every night. Neuroscientists have now produced a fascinating video that shows this nocturnal pulsing...
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163TechnologyUsing AI to predict where and when lightning will strike
Lightning is one of the most unpredictable phenomena in nature. It regularly kills people and animals and sets fire to homes and...
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171HealthVitamin E acetate is a culprit in the deadly vaping outbreak, the CDC says
For the first time, a chemical potentially responsible for widespread vaping-related lung injuries and deaths in the United States has been found...
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168SpaceLight leaking from a distant galaxy hints at a cosmic makeover’s origins
A leaky galaxy might be offering up clues about a vast cosmic makeover foisted on the universe during its youth. Within about...
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194ChemistryAmerican whiskeys leave unique ‘webs’ when evaporated
Step aside, whiskey connoisseurs. Scientists have a new way to discern quality among bourbons. An analysis of residues from evaporated bourbons reveals...
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170PhysicsTrapping atoms in a laser beam offers a new way to measure gravity
By watching how atoms behave when they’re suspended in midair, rather than in free fall, physicists have come up with a new...
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170EnvironmentScientists Study Sea Levels 125,000 Years Ago And It’s a Terrifying Look at Our Future
Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according to new research that offers...
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218EnvironmentDecades of dumping acid suggest acid rain may make trees thirstier
A forest watered by acid rain may be less able to slake its thirst. That’s one finding from a decades-long experiment in...
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195NatureDiscovery of Birds With a Complex Society Shows Mammals Aren’t as Unique as We Thought
It has long been thought that one of the reasons we humans developed large brains was to allow us to maintain complex social...
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159TechnologyUber’s Self-Driving Cars Have a Huge Flaw When It Comes to Jaywalkers
Software detected the woman almost six seconds before Uber’s self-driving car struck her, investigators say, in the crash that would lead to...
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187Life ScienceMassive Review Confirms House Plants Aren’t Actually ‘Purifying’ The Air in Your Home
Filling your house with potted plants might make you happier and more productive, but it’s not going to make the air you...
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174SpaceNASA Just Opened a Moon Dirt Sample Untouched Since The ’70s
For the first time in more than 40 years, NASA scientists have opened up a sample of Moon matter collected during the...
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299HealthThe Real Cause of Your Neck Pain Probably Has Very Little to Do With Bad Posture
If you suffer from neck pain, you’re not alone. Spinal pain is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and its...
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207HealthChronic Form of B12 Deficiency:Major Health Issues
An estimated 6 percent of people in the US and UK suffer from vitamin B12 deficiency. The condition is recognised by the...
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182Health‘Causal Connection’ Between Sleep Quality And Anxiety
Everybody knows to get a good night’s sleep if they want to feel their best, but the emotional consequences of not having...
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359EnvironmentEven More Insects Than We Feared Have Disappeared in The Last Decade
The world’s insects are in trouble. In recent years, growing evidence has found a scary number of bugs are missing from the...
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71SpaceScientists Detect Giant ‘Megaripple’ Structures Moving Across Mars
For the first time, scientists have observed that ‘megaripples’ on Mars – huge sand waves seen on the Martian surface – are...
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72Life ScienceMiocene Fossil from Africa Provides New Evidence for Origin of American Crocodiles
The skull and associated lower jaw of an adult Crocodylus checchiai were collected in 1938 at the paleontological site of As Sahabi...
