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An increase in clear, sunny days over the world's largest island may be...
Credit: University of BristolAn increase in clear, sunny days over Greenland is melting more of the island’s ice sheet amid a long-term shift in weather patterns in the far North, European scientists...
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By replicating the function of the human brain's 100 trillion synapses,...
Credit: Art Partner Images/Getty ImagesHeads up, humanity. Artificial intelligence may be about to get a lot smarter. An international team of scientists has developed a new kind of synthetic...
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After years of technical problems and delays with a technology that would...
Credit: George Frey/Getty ImagesUtility conglomerate Southern Company has pulled the plug on a struggling “clean coal” power plant in Mississippi after state regulators balked at the project’s...
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New genetic analysis reveals the heavy role that human intervention has...
Credit: Bob HaarmansHorse lovers admire a wide variety of breeds, each with apparently distinctive characteristics and traits. But it may come as a surprise that nearly all horses alive today descend...
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A new fossil find, named Coronodon havensteini, helps explain the unusual...
Credit: Alberto GennariGeologist Mark Havenstein has always had a knack for finding rare, important fossils. As a child, he found a tooth for the largest shark that ever lived — megalodon — on a beach...
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A study shows that chimps have more “fast-twitch” muscle fibers that enable...
Credit: ThinkstockIn 1926, scientist John Bauman brought five “husky farm lads” and three chimpanzees to Muhlenberg College for an experiment. The husky humans and chimpanzees all had to pull a...
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A promising new device might someday be used in maintenance robots in space...
Credit: Jiang et al.Robotic pincers inspired by geckos could help collect garbage in space, a new study finds. In experiments, the device was able to glom on to objects in the lab and even floating...
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Rising global temperatures are likely to hit the lowest-income parts of the...
Credit: Lukas Schulze/Getty ImagesHow much is one degree worth? Based on a new estimate of what climate change will do to the US economy, the cost could be hundreds of billions of dollars. A sweeping...
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While magnesium bubbles propel the bots, layers of iron, gold, and silver...
Water contamination and water-borne diseases are a serious public health crisis in the United States, as well as around the world. Though some may tend to think of unsafe drinking water as existing...
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The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like heatwaves and...
Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty ImagesHalf a degree Celsius of global warming has been enough to increase heat waves and heavy rains in many regions of the planet, researchers reported Friday....
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Scientists from around the world are refuting a controversial claim last fall...
For as long as humans have been alive, we have contemplated our inherent mortality while progressively living longer and longer over time. Last fall, a new scientific paper made waves by declaring that...
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Three carved human skulls found in southeastern Turkey provide evidence of...
Credit: Dieter Johannes and Klaus Schmidt, Göbekli Tepe Archive, DAIWhen the ruins of Göbekli Tepe, meaning “Potbelly Hill,” were first discovered in Turkey in the early 1960s, the artifacts there...
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According to several experts who testified before Congress this week, we may...
Credit: NASAThere’s a saying among space exploration enthusiasts that human missions to Mars have always been 20 years ahead of available technology. We’ve never quite had the significant research...
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Brian Merchant, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the...
Credit: Philip Sowels/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesJune 29 marked 10 years since Apple launched the original iPhone, an event that flipped the script on mobile devices and fundamentally changed...
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Razanandrongobe sakalavae — Razana for short — was able to take on the...
Credit: Fabio ManucciThe Jurassic period is often called the Age of the Ruling Reptiles, and for good reason. In the seas, aquatic reptiles such as the dolphin-like Stenopterygius were plentiful. In...
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New satellite images show a growing rift in the Larsen C ice shelf, which...
Credit: NASAA chunk of ice bigger than the US state of Delaware is hanging by a thread from the West Antarctic ice shelf, satellite images revealed Wednesday. When it finally calves from the Larsen C...
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CRISPR could potentially produce a very sensitive diagnostic device that...
Credit: Mopic/ShutterstockThe gene-editing tool known as CRISPR is fast becoming known for its potential to treat disease by snipping genetic mutations from DNA. But genomic tools like CRISPR also...
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New research suggests that frog species flourished in the ecological niches...
Credit: Brian FreiermuthThe mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs paved the way for a totally different type of creature to take over — frogs. The slimy amphibians exploded in numbers and...
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Using insect larvae to convert food waste into high-protein feed for animals...
Credit: MD-TerraristikIf the idea of munching on insects has you wrinkling your nose in disgust, perhaps you'd settle for eating meat from animals raised on insects? A handful of companies around...
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The particle, dubbed Xicc++, contains two heavy "charm" quarks and one "up"...
Credit: View Pictures/UIG via Getty ImagesEuropean scientists said Thursday they have discovered a new subatomic particle containing a never-before-seen combination of quarks — the most basic building...
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