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Jon Lomberg has launched a fundraising campaign to equip the interstellar...
Credit: NASANASA's New Horizons spacecraft could end up bearing a message for intelligent aliens, just as the agency's venerable Voyager probes are doing. Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 famously carry...
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While scientists remain uncertain about the impact of climate change on...
Credit: NASAScientists freely acknowledge they don't know everything about how global warming affects hurricanes like the one pummeling southeast Texas. But what they do know is enough to keep them up...
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American researchers are increasingly going offshore to developing countries...
Credit: VCG/VCG via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Defying US safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter,...
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Along a stretch of Atlantic shore from the Outer Banks to Miami, sea levels...
Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAlong the southeastern coast of the United States, the future is arriving faster than elsewhere. While sea levels worldwide have been going up an average of about an...
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Paradromics, a California-based startup, is designing a high-speed...
Credit: ParadromicsLt. Commander Geordi La Forge, the fictional helmsman of Star Trek: The Next Generation portrayed by the actor LeVar Burton, was born blind, but could see using a 24th-century visor...
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InSight will do a deep dive into the Martian underground, putting two...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed MartinWhat lies beneath the surface on Mars? NASA’s next Mars mission aims to find out. The InSight project, NASA’s first mission to study the Red Planet’s deep...
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The Tesla and SpaceX CEO believes the only way to keep pace with artificial...
Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesTesla CEO Elon Musk, perhaps the world’s most famous futurist, has made a career of pursuing far-fetched projects that have one leg planted firmly in...
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Rapid growth could see the sun provide 50 percent of global electricity by...
Credit: Denis Doyle/Getty ImagesSolar energy has grown faster than most analysts expected, and improvements in solar panels could make it a much bigger part of the world’s electrical power systems in...
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Research shows that endogenous opioid release occurs even in the absence of...
Credit: Laurence Mouton/Getty ImagesWhether it’s the holiday season or someone’s birthday in the office, it’s hard not to overeat when you’re surrounded by delicious food. But what if you’re...
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The most distant galactic magnetic field that has ever been observed provides...
Credit: Vikrant Agarwal/EyeEmAn international group of physicists has measured the most distant galactic magnetic field that has ever been observed. It belongs to a young galaxy, named CLASS...
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“The record for total rainfall from a tropical system has been BROKEN!” the...
Credit: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesHurricane Harvey has set what forecasters believe is a new rainfall record for the continental United States, officials said Tuesday. Harvey, swirling for the past few...
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NASA's Aqua satellite, specialized aircraft, and the International Space...
Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES ProjectNASA is monitoring Tropical Storm Harvey as it moves back into the Gulf of Mexico this morning (Aug. 28) after causing heavy rains and severe flooding across Texas and...
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Jane Kim, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, thinks it’s...
Credit: Wojtek Laski/Getty ImagesClick through some news headlines these days and you'll find plenty of anxiety about workplace automation despite widely varying interpretations among academics of how...
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Temporarily deprived of the ability to smell, these ocean-faring birds had...
Credit: Vincent PommeyrolAt least one species of sea-faring bird uses its sense of smell to navigate over ocean waters, according to a novel experiment described in a study released Tuesday....
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Researchers working in the Utah desert experiment with methods for...
The first humans on Mars will face a dangerous and harsh environment, particularly the Red Planet’s high levels of radiation. The Mars Curiosity rover estimated that during travel to and from the Red...
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With the James Webb Space Telescope set to launch next year, scientists are...
Credit: Emmet Given/NASA MarshallWith NASA's James Webb Space Telescope set to launch in late 2018, researchers are already talking about the next generation of telescopes. That's because massive...
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Some of the characteristics that have made Hurricane Harvey so destructive...
Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesScientists say the devastating intensity of hurricanes such as Harvey is consistent with global warming trends — rising seas, warming oceans, hotter air — and warn of...
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Thanks to an increase in education, women today are more likely to marry men...
Credit: Hero ImagesThe idea of “marrying up,” in which someone elevates their social status by getting hitched to someone of a higher class or tax bracket, has pervaded human culture for centuries....
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The find is prompting scientists to rethinking how — and when — people first...
Credit: Tom Poole, Liquid Jungle LabAn ice-free corridor between the Americas and Asia opened up about 12,500 years ago, allowing humans to cross over the Bering land bridge to settle what is now the...
View ArticleTo remove a tumor, doctors mapped the regions of the teacher's brain that are...
Scalpel. Forceps. Clamp… Saxophone. Surgeons in Rochester, NY, asked a music teacher to play his saxophone while lying on an operating table during brain surgery to determine whether they had...
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