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Advanced chemical testing and electronic scanning devices are helping...
Credit: Photo by DeAgostini/Getty ImagesFrom the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor, Egypt's ancient monuments are holding onto mysteries which researchers now aim to unravel with cutting...
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The new AI-powered system developed at Columbia University could show up in...
Credit: Nima Mesgarani/Columbia EngineeringAsk anyone who uses a modern hearing aid and they'll likely tell you that the technology is just this side of miraculous — except in crowds. In busy...
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Expect to see “polar plums” and “helmet streamers” during the total solar...
Credit: NSO/NSFWith the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse only a few weeks away, astronomers have revealed what the sun's outer atmosphere is likely to look like as the sun disappears behind the moon. The...
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Social isolation, loneliness, and living alone can be as strong a predictor...
Credit: Education Images/UIG/Getty ImagesA lack of social connection has been found to be as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and to be an even stronger predictor of mortality than obesity,...
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Danish researchers have developed a method for quickly turning the stinging...
Credit: Reinhard Dirscher/Getty ImageHow about a side of jellyfish with that sandwich? Danish researchers have found a way to turn the floating, stinging bane of many beachgoers into a crispy snack in...
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John Rummel, a biology professor at East Carolina University, reflects on his...
Credit: NASA/Reid WisemanIf you want a job protecting Earth from threats from outer space — or even protecting Mars from us — NASA has an opening for you — sort of. The job of planetary protection...
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Brain scans show that first-person shooter games shrink the hippocampus in...
Credit: WIN-Initiative/Getty ImagesParents worried about the amount of time their kids spend playing video games have to sort through a lot of conflicting messages. In recent years, there’s been...
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New research proposes a technique for repairing damaged “circuits” that...
Credit: Oliver Burston/Getty ImagesWhen studying the human brain, biologists and neurologists have found it useful to divide the organ into various regions — the cerebellum, for instance, or the...
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The SETI Institute has launched a crowdfunding drive for the first "all-sky,...
Credit: ESOThe best way to find laser flashes from an alien civilization is to look everywhere, all the time, and a new project aims to do just that. The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial...
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The report, obtained by The New York Times, contradicts claims made by...
Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesAverage US temperatures have risen dramatically and fast, with recent decades the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a draft federal government report...
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A growing number of clinics are providing specialty care to transgender kids,...
Credit: Valentin Russanov/Getty ImagesIn 2012, when he was a medical resident at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Lewis attended a meeting for parents of transgender...
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The biggest known terrestrial animal was the peaceful and plant-loving...
Credit: Jorge GonzalezIn the distance, he suddenly saw what appeared to be a giant bone. Wondering what had died, he showed the bone to his boss Oscar Mayo, a dinosaur buff who suspected that the...
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The James Webb Space Telescope, billed as NASA’s premier observatory of the...
Credit: ESO/M. KornmesserAround this time last year, astronomers excitedly announced the discovery of a planet roughly the size of Earth that was found to be orbiting the star Proxima Centauri. At a...
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As the nation awaits the Great American Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21, Stanford's...
Credit: NASAEclipse fever is sweeping the United States. Millions of people are preparing to watch an epic solar eclipse that will be visible from coast to coast on August 21. But while the total...
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New research on the behavior of lizards found the animals fled less...
Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA frightening encounter with police in Orange County inspired new research that determined clothing color may have a profound effect on animals. Breanna Putnam of the...
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Researchers created a machine-learning algorithm that was able to identify...
Credit: Thomas Trutschel/Getty ImagesHeads up Instagram users — the pictures you post may be more revealing than you think. This week, researchers at Harvard University and the University of Vermont...
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Excavations of human remains in England show that the bodies were eaten, with...
Credit: Bello et al.Cheddar Gorge and nearby areas of Somerset in England are world famous for their cheddar cheeses, many of which are aged in caves. But Gough’s Cave, located in the gorge, is also...
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The star S2 showed slight deviations in its orbit of a black hole at the...
Credit: ESO/M. Parsa/L. CalçadaA giant star near the center of our galaxy hints, once again, that Albert Einstein was correct about gravity. A group of astronomers in Germany and the Czech Republic...
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A fifth of the world’s population lives in the region, where heat and...
Credit: Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesBy the end of this century, temperatures in South Asia — a region where about one-fifth of the world's population lives — could become too hot and humid for people...
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The conditions needed to support life as we know it may be present on several...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThe complex choreography of Saturn's numerous moons displays beautiful physics, but only a few of the worlds may be friendly to life. Oceans of liquid...
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