British robot helping autistic children with their social skills | Reuters

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LONDON “This is nice, it tickles me,” Kaspar the social robot tells four-year-old Finn as they play together at an autism school north of London.

Kaspar, developed by the University of Hertfordshire, also sings song,...

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SpaceX launches SES-10 satellite, lands in first reuse of orbital rocket

March 30 (UPI) — SpaceX launched a private communications satellite Thursday evening in what the company said is the first time an orbital space rocket has been used for multiple flights.
The launch occurred at Cape Canaveral, Fla., at precisely 6:30 p.m., which was at the start of its...

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Amateur archaeologists find six-foot MAMMOTH TUSK found off British coastline | Science | News

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Dog-walkers and beachgoers were urged to keep an eye out for unusual pieces of wood that could turn out to be invaluable artefacts.
Gustav Milne, of the Museum of London Archaeology, made the call...

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Colin Furze Built A 100MPH Bumper Car For The Stig And It's Glorious

From high voltage ejector beds to homemade hoverbikes, YouTube inventor Colin Furze has come up with some pretty inspired designs over the years.


But the latest might just be his best yet.


In a new YouTube video, Furze unveils a bumper car that can travel at speeds of up to...

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Anti-Flavivirus Antibodies Enhance Zika Infection in Mice

3-D representation of Zika virionWIKIMEDIA, MANUEL ALMAGRO RIVASA more-severe dengue virus infection can occur in an individual previously exposed to a different dengue virus serotype. Researchers theorize that this more-severe secondary infection occurs because circulating anti-dengue...

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SpaceX Makes a First With Second-Hand Rocket - Video

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SpaceX launched a “pre-flown” rocket into space on Thursday. If the company can repeat it, this method could slash the price of space travel in the future.


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Rising Seas Threaten Coastal Military Bases

Many military installations are along coastlines and are vulnerable to rising seas, including military bases on the Virginia coast, which face dangers of flooding.


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Trump Critics on Climate Policy Hope Executives Can Sway Him

“Mr. Trump says the business perspective is especially important, so hearing the business voice is critical,” said Kevin Moss, of the World Resources Institute, an environmental research group in Washington.

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Mating season means active alligators in Florida

TAMPA –  It’s the season of love for Florida alligators. Mating season has begun and typically lasts through June.
Residents across the Tampa Bay area are starting to see alligators move from nearby bodies of water, like lakes and retention ponds, to their doorsteps, as male gators...

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SpaceX Reuses A Rocket To Launch A Satellite : The Two-Way : NPR

This photo, made available by SpaceX Thursday, shows the company’s Falcon 9 rocket launching from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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Brain implant lets paralyzed man feed himself using his thoughts | Reuters

By Julie Steenhuysen
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CHICAGO A paralyzed man in Cleveland fed himself mashed potatoes for the first time in eight years, aided by a computer-brain interface that reads his thoughts and sends signals to move muscles in his arm, U.S. researchers said on...

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Citizen scientist turns Juno image into art

March 28 (UPI) — Often, NASA’s public images don’t need enhancement. They’re awe-inspiring as they are. But one recent image of Jupiter’s surface required a few tweaks.
Those tweaks were provided by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko. Thanks to Tkachenko, some...

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California at risk of DEVASTATING tsunami - Experts warn tragedy is LONG OVERDUE | Science | News

The state is currently in the midst of Tsunami Preparedness Week where experts are looking to highlight the risk of a devastating huge wave.
Just off the coast of California lies a fault known as the Cascadia – which is up to 30 times more powerful than its more famous neighbour, the San...

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Architects Designed A Skyscraper That Hangs From An Orbiting Asteroid

Why build skyscrapers from the ground up when you can hang them off asteroids and fly them around the Earth?


That’s the logic behind a bonkers new concept for a floating building suspended from vast rocks within our orbit.



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NIH: Grant Applicants Can Cite Preprints

In an agency first, the National Institutes of Health provides guidance on citing certain non-peer-reviewed publications in agency proposals and reports.

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How Comet 67P’s Face Changed During Its Trip Around the Sun

Cliffs collapsed, boulders moved, cracks opened up, and jets of dust and gas erupted.
Those are some of the transmogrifications that scientists discovered as they pored over two years of photographs of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by Rosetta, the European Space Agency spacecraft...

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Passengers Take Flight To View Southern Lights

The Aurora Australis is a display of neon green lights that dance across the southern skies. A plane took off from New Zealand to get a special view.


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Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies

With his order to move forward with the rollback, climate diplomats around the world maneuvered to fill the vacuum left by the exit of the globe’s second-biggest climate polluter.

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Ancient Rock Carvings Depicting Masked People Discovered in Egypt

Before King Tut, Hatshepsut or Ramesses I — in fact, before there were any pharaohs at all — someone pecked an image of a hunter and a dancer wearing an ostrich mask into a rock on a hill along the Nile River.
The image, discovered recently by archaeologists, provides a tantalizing glimpse...

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SSL sues rival Orbital ATK over theft of trade secrets: lawsuit | Reuters

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space Systems/Loral is suing rival Orbital ATK over an alleged theft of proprietary data and business plans for an in-space satellite servicing technology, according to a complaint filed on Thursday.

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New Zealand quake to inspire new hazard models

March 24 (UPI) — Each new earthquake offers scientists a chance to better understand the dynamics of regional fault systems and improve predictive analytics.
A team of NASA scientists and New Zealand researchers are using last year’s magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake to improve...

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Scientists fear THIS historical event could spark apocalyptic disaster | Science | News

Researchers believe global warming sparked the biggest ever mass extinction in Earth’s history and now experts fear a repeat could happen soon. 
Around 250 million years ago, roughly 90 per cent of all living things were lost in the ‘Permian mass extinction’ event, with...

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Calling All Tea Connoisseurs: This Is Why You Should Never Reboil Your Kettle When Making A Cuppa

If you reboil water when making a cuppa, you could actually be spoiling the taste.


That’s according to chairman of the UK Tea and Infusions Association, William Gorman, who urged people to always use fresh water in their kettle when making a cup of tea.


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Rethinking a Cancer Drug Target

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the cancer types for which MELK-inhibitors are being tested.WIKIMEDIA, JAMES GRELLIERA protein thought to be essential for cancer cells may not be so essential after all, according to a study published today (March 24) in eLife. Researchers at Cold...

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A Space Odyssey: Making Art Up There

Mr. Kac’s artwork was made possible by the Space Observatory, an office of France’s National Center for Space Studies that focuses on the cultural aspect of space exploration. Beginning Friday, March 24, the observatory is hosting its annual celebration of art and space at the center’s...

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EPA Chief: Trump Plans To Kill Obama-era Clean Power Plan

The Trump administration is expected this week to unveil its executive order undoing President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.


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Before Vaquitas Vanish, a Desperate Bid to Save Them

This calamity has hardly gone unnoticed. The vaquita has been vanishing in plain sight, to the despair of conservationists who have been advising the Mexican government on how to save it. All of the resources brought to bear, including the protection of the Mexican Navy, have proved to be no...

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Chinese researchers announce designer baby breakthrough

Science has taken another step toward delivering the perfect newborn – or at least a bouncing baby free of certain genetic defects.
Chinese researchers used a genome editing technique called CRISPR to rid normal embryos of hereditary diseases that cause blood disorders and other ailments,...

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'Ring Of Fire' Solar Eclipse Set To Blaze In Southern Skies : The Two-Way : NPR

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Astronauts complete spacewalk to retrofit space station | Reuters

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Two spacewalking astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Friday for a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk, the first of three to prepare the orbiting laboratory for future commercial space taxis and...

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Land-based microbes, fungi are invading coral reefs

March 24 (UPI) — New research suggests land-based sources are tainting coral reefs with invasive bacteria and fungi. The foreign organisms could upset the microbial balance of an ecosystem already under threat from global warming.
Scientists measured the makeup of microbial communities...

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Warning issued over Tomb of Jesus Christ: Scientists alert of 'catastrophic' finding | Science | News

Renovations that cost $4million can not save the Tomb of Christ from the dangers of a “catastrophic” collapse after experts identified extensive structural problems.
Scientists found a mass of decaying foundation, prompting calls for more structural reinforcement.
Antonia Moropoulou, chief...

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Scientific Breakthrough Will Allow For Mass Produced Blood

Researchers at the University of Bristol have made a major breakthrough in the creation of artificial blood cells that could one day lead to the production of mass produced blood.


The team from the University worked alongside researchers from NHS Blood and Transplant to create a radical...

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UC Berkeley Receives CRISPR Patent in Europe

© BRYAN SATALINOThe European Patent Office (EPO) yesterday (March 23) announced its intention to award a broad-strokes patent for CRISPR gene-editing technology to the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research. The claims...

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Visualizing the Cosmic Streams That Spew Meteor Showers

An excerpt of an animated simulation of the Geminids meteor shower, which peaks in December. The blue circle and dot is Earth’s orbit of the sun. Visit the full interactive here.


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Goats and Soda : NPR

Ghanaian and American team members met for the first time at the competition, held in Washington, D.C.

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Headed North, Sandhill Cranes Squeeze In Where They Can

You’ll hear it before you see it.
The ancient call of a single crane can trumpet out for miles. And when they all cry out at once the sound multiplies by the tens or hundreds of thousands.


The Sounds of Sandhill Cranes

Each spring, around half a million sandhill cranes...

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SpaceX capsule returns space station science to Earth

LOS ANGELES –  A SpaceX capsule is back on Earth with a full load of space station science samples.
The Dragon cargo ship parachuted into the Pacific on Sunday off the Southern California coast. Astronauts set it free from the International Space Station 5½ hours earlier.
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SpaceX Announces Plans To Send Two Customers To The Moon : The Two-Way : NPR

SpaceX says its Falcon Heavy rocket, shown here in an artist’s rendering, will be used in the mission to the moon.


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This College Class On 'Historical Frauds' Is Fighting Pseudoscience Head-On

Pseudoscience has been enjoying a major resurgence as of late, thanks in large part to the leadership of our conspiracy theorist in chief, President Donald Trump. Public trust in scientific research ― not to mention in the concept of evidence itself ―  has been steadily eroding as “fake...

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Scientists use graphene to power 'electronic skin' that can feel | Reuters

LONDON Scientists have found a way to power an experimental kind of electronic skin using solar energy in a further step towards the development of prosthetic limbs or robots with a sense of touch.

Teams around the world are working to develop flexible versions of synthetic skin that can...

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Hyperloop Pod Unveiled: This Is What Travelling On 700mph Train Could Look Like

A train that travels through low-pressure tubes at 700mph might sound like science fiction, but it just got one step closer to reality.


Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, one of two firms racing to realise the vision, has announced it has started building the first Hyperloop passenger...

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The embryo: The earliest mutations of human life observed by researchers | Science | News

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Analysing genomes from adult cells, the scientists could look back in time to reveal how each embryo developed.
The findings, published in the journal Nature, show that from the two-cell stage of the human embryo, one of these...

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Thousands of monkeys are dying from yellow fever in Brazil

March 22 (UPI) — Yellow fever, a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is spreading through Brazil, infecting and killing both monkeys and humans.
According to the latest reports from local scientists, several thousand monkeys — most of them howler monkeys — have been...

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Enzyme Required for Mitochondrial Genome Destruction

Male Drosophila suzukiiWIKIMEDIA, MARTIN COOPERMost animals inherit mitochondria from their mothers. Now, at team of scientists has shown that, in Drosophila, the paternal contribution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is degraded in the sperm in a process that depends on a subunit of the fruit...

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Congress Rolls Back Obama-Era Rule On Hunting Bears And Wolves In Alaska : The Two-Way : NPR

Brown bears play in a pond at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage Glacier, Alaska, in 2009.

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In the Land of Giants

The General Sherman Tree is one of the park’s primary attractions. It’s 275 feet tall, 100 feet in circumference, and known to be the largest tree on Earth, by volume. (The National Park Service drives home its massiveness on a sign in front of its trunk this way: If the General Sherman were...

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First endangered bee in the United States named

The rusty patched bumblebee is the first native bee to become an endangered species in the United States. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials have stated they do not know what caused the decline, but the species is on the brink of extinction.
The bee could be disappearing for a number...

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The Fight For Pluto's Fate As A Planet Continues : NPR

About a decade ago Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet. Now scientists are arguing that because of shape and surface features, Pluto and 110 bodies in our solar system deserve to be planets.





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Newer type 2 diabetes drugs show heart protective quality in study | Reuters

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WASHINGTON A newer class of type 2 diabetes drugs significantly cut the risk of death and hospitalization for heart failure compared with other medicines for the disease, according to data released on Sunday from a so-called real world...

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New Hubble image shows shimmering frisbee galaxy

March 20 (UPI) — The spiral galaxy NGC 1448 is located 50 million light-years from Earth. It can be appreciated more intimately thanks to a new closeup image captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.
Scientists shared the portrait of the frisbee-shaped galaxy on NASA’s...

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Extreme weather and pollution 'made 2016 a RECORD-breaker' | Science | News

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Using data from around the world, the WMO confirmed 2016 as the warmest ever.
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This Is The Ghostly Face Of A Poor Man Who Lived 700 Years Ago

New facial reconstruction techniques have allowed us, for the first time, to stare into the eyes of a man who lived a staggering 700 years ago.


Unlike previous reconstructions this man was not a noble, nor was he important, instead he is the quintessential ‘ordinary man’ of the 13th...

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Inflammation Drives Gut Bacteria Evolution

WIKIMEDIA, NIAIDIntestinal inflammation caused by Salmonella infection activates bacteriophages within the bacteria to spread genes throughout the colony, according to a report published in Science today (March 16). The findings reveal how genetic traits encoded in the viruses, such as...

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Indonesia's Peat Fires Still Blaze, But Not As Much As They Used To : Parallels : NPR

Farmer Arif Subandi surveys scorched peat lands near his house in the village of Punggur Kecil in West Kalimantan Province on Borneo.

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Falling Trees Kill at Least 19 at Kintampo Waterfall in Ghana

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Young Chilean inmates use 3D technology to make prostheses

SANTIAGO, CHILE –  Young inmates in the southern Chilean city of Valdivia are learning how to use 3D technology to make prostheses for children from poor families.
“The kids have really surprised us with their motivation and commitment to the project,” program director Montserrat...

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Chuck Berry Immortalized On Voyager Space Mission : NPR

In 1977, a recording of Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” was included on a golden disc sent to space with the Voyager mission. The mission continues today.





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Miniature lab begins science experiments in outer space | Reuters

HERZLIYA, Israel Orbiting the earth at more than 500 kilometers (300 miles), a tiny satellite with a laboratory shrunk to the size of a tissue box is helping scientists carry out experiments that take gravity out of the equation.

The technology was launched into space last month by...

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Spiders eat more than 400 million tons of insects every year

March 17 (UPI) — Humans may believe they’re the ultimate carnivores — they do eat 400 million tons of meat and fish annually — but spiders are every much as voracious, if not more.
A team of European researchers estimate spiders consume between 400 and 800 million...

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MYSTERY SOLVED: Have scientists finally cracked consciousness? | Science | News

Experts have edged closer to finally explaining how exactly humans have consciousness after they discovered three neurons in mammalian brains.
Consciousness, the ability to perceive and be aware of our surroundings, has baffled scientists for centuries, with there so far being an inability...

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On The Academic Road To Nowhere - One Scientist's Story

I have always loved animals. When I was at primary school I was unable to reach the front entrance without stopping to remove imperilled earthworms from the pavement and safely return them to soil. Even as a teenager, on summer holidays in France I was more concerned with patrolling the...

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Science Advocates Decry Trump’s Proposed Budget

PIXABAYThe Trump administration released its FY 2018 federal budget proposal today (March 16), outlining possible funding cuts at federal research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and others. While Congress has yet to...

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Climate Change As An Issue Of National Security

Defense Secretary James Mattis called climate change a national security threat. Retired Brig. Gen. Gerald Galloway talks about how the Pentagon will manage challenges presented by climate change.


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Despite Pollution, Coal Plant Is Cleared to Reopen in New Delhi

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'King' polar bear skull found in northern Alaska may solve mystery

Archeologists studying the existence of “king” polar bears find information on these bears elusive. There is little information available from the indigenous people in northern Alaska.
But scientists say that they recovered the fourth largest polar bear skull ever recorded after a storm in...

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Microbe Hunter Turned Astronaut Plies Her Trade In Space : Shots

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins floats in the International Space Station in September 2016, wearing a spacesuit decorated by patients recovering at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.


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nose shape was influenced by local climate | Reuters

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WASHINGTON The human nose, in all its glorious forms, is one of our most distinctive characteristics, whether big, little, broad, narrow or somewhere in between. Scientists are now sniffing out some of the factors that drove the evolution...

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SpaceX rocket carries satellite into orbit after two-day delay

March 16 (UPI) — SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday after a two-day delay due to high winds. The rocket delivered an EchoStar 23 communications satellite into high altitude orbit.
The blastoff took place in the darkness of early morning at Florida’s...

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Metallic sphere seven times size of Jupiter found - and it’s PROOF of aliens, hunters say | Science | News

In 2012, astronomers spotted a “perplexing, isolated” object that was found to have a mass four to seven times that of Jupiter – by far the biggest planet in the solar system – around 100 lightyears away.
Experts believed it was the closest rogue planet ever found, but after studying the...

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Declassified Footage Of Dozens Of US Nuclear Tests Has Been Published On YouTube

Mushroom clouds were a common sight in the Nevada desert and the Pacific Proving Ground between 1945 and 1962.


The US used the regions to carry out more than 200 atmospheric nuclear tests, before above ground explosions were banned in 1963.


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Opinion: After We March | The Scientist Magazine®

WIKIMEDIA, KRASSOTKINGiven instances in which the current administration has opposed facts—scientific or otherwise—and ongoing assaults on science, next month’s March for Science is a worthy first step toward getting those who care about research and American innovation engaged and ready...

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Ron Drever, Physicist Who Helped Confirm Einstein Theory, Dies at 85

Dr. Drever, Dr. Thorne and Dr. Weiss were awarded a slew of prestigious and lucrative prizes last summer, and few would have been surprised to see them share the Nobel in physics this fall. The Nobel is not awarded posthumously, but Dr. Thorne and Dr. Weiss would still be eligible.

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California Deserts In 'Super Bloom' Thanks To A Wet Winter : NPR

In some parts of the country, cold weather is threatening crops. Meanwhile, California has been so unseasonably wet that its deserts are experiencing what’s called a “super bloom.” After years of drought, the normally arid desert is lush.
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Scientists Bristle at Trump Budget’s Cuts to Research

While the budget is only a blueprint and is sure to face strong opposition from members of both parties in Congress — many lawmakers have already said that certain cuts, like those to the N.I.H., are nonstarters — policy makers expressed concern about what the proposal says about the...

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Photos found in Eva Braun's bunker bedroom are sold

A photo album featuring candid shots of some of the most evil people ever to walk the Earth has been snapped up for $41,000 by an anonymous buyer at an auction in England.
The album, found in the bunker bedroom of Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler’s mistress, features Hitler and henchmen...

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Cold War-Era Nuclear Test Films Reveal New Data When Digitized : The Two-Way : NPR

The film is silent, but it starts with a bang. The screen blows out white, then a tropical beach comes into view, before an explosion tears across the horizon. A two-tiered mushroom cloud flows skyward, revealing a dark, intense plume of smoke that smolders in the distance.




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Fossils from 1.6 billion years ago may be oldest-known plants | Reuters

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WASHINGTON Fossils unearthed in India that are 1.6 billion years old and look like red algae may represent the earliest-known plants, a discovery that could force scientists to reassess the timing of when major lineages in the tree of...

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Searching for polar bears on Alaska’s North Slope

March 15 (UPI) — On a frigid March day in 2011, workers with ENI Petroleum were busy moving construction equipment on and off Spy Island, a man-made offshore drill site in the Beaufort Sea a few miles off the coast near Ooliktok Point, when a female polar bear popped out of a deep snow...

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Volcano eruption and HUNDREDS of earthquakes spark BIG ONE fears in Chile | Science | News

The Chillan volcano located in central Chile exhibited an “eruptive pulse” on Tuesday, March 14, which led to 761 minor earthquakes.
An eruptive pulse is when there is essentially a small eruption, which releases lava and smoke from the volcano, without a huge explosion.
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Do You Know The Agenda Behind Your School's STEM Provision?

By Dr Jan Maskell, Scientists for Global Responsibility, and Rhianna Louise, ForcesWatch.Children today inherit a world beset with insecurity. Huge losses of biodiversity and major erosion of soils are jeopardising food supplies. Severe weather events and sea level rise, due to global...

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CRISPR-Based Therapy Prevents Retinal Degeneration

Right: markedly reduced Nrl expression in retinal photoreceptor layer at 2.5 months after administration of AAV-CRISPR/Cas9 against Nrl; left: treatment with AAV-CRISPR/Cas9 against EGFP was used as a control WENHAN YU, NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE, BETHESDA, MDDelivering a CRISPR/Cas9–based...

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Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s Moon Shot, Gets First Paying Customer

The companies are part of a private sector space boom that has restored the United States’ position in aerospace technology and exploration. Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other international commercial space companies are also competing with the tech entrepreneurs for business and government...

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EPA Reopens U.S. Rules Setting Vehicle Efficiency Standards For 2025 : The Two-Way : NPR

The CAFE standards that set fuel efficiency marks for the auto industry will be reopened for review, the Trump administration says. Here, vehicles refuel at a roadside gas station in New Mexico.

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Solar Experiment Lets Neighbors Trade Energy Among Themselves

“Community members can work both individually and collectively to help meet demand in an efficient way,” said Audrey Zibelman, who recently resigned as chairwoman of the New York State Public Service Commission, which regulates the state’s utilities.

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Cruise ship crash causes more than $18M in damage to pristine Indonesian reef, experts say

The damage caused by a British-owned cruise ship that accidentally ran aground on a pristine Indonesian coral reef could total more than $18 million, according to academics and environmental groups working in the region.
Researchers for Conservation International Indonesia (CII), Papua State...

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Scientists Catch Star And Possible Black Hole In A Rapid, Dangerous Dance : The Two-Way : NPR

An artist’s impression of a white dwarf in an extremely close orbit around what’s believed to be a black hole. The star is so close that much of its material is being pulled away.

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Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say | Reuters

NEW YORK For most Americans, daylight saving time means only one thing: losing an hour’s sleep. So what is the point?

This is actually a reasonable question, according to a growing body of scientific research.

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How Arctic weather can improve mid-latitude forecasts

March 10 (UPI) — During the second week of February in 2015, the meandering jet stream slipped steadily southward, pulling down icy fingers of Arctic air. In Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 15 was the coldest day in 21 years, and record daily lows were recorded from the Great Lakes across the...

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SHOCK CLAIM: Human DNA ‘was designed by aliens’, say scientists | Science | News

A pair of scientists from Kazakhstan believe that our species was designed by a higher power, alien civilisation that either wanted to preserve a message in our DNA or simply plant life on other planets.
Maxim A. Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute and Vladimir I. Shcherbak from...

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Panasonic Has Launched A Washing Machine With A Curry Button, But There's A Catch

If, like us, you’ve sacrificed a fair few items of clothing during your weekly curry binges, we have some tantalising news.


Panasonic has built a washing machine with a setting designed to target particularly gruesome curry stains.


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Opinion: Redefining Species Based on Compatibility of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genes

Male blue-winged warblerGEOFFREY E. HILLWhat defines a species? Because the boundaries between species can appear so fluid, pursuing such a question seems, at times, like academic esoterica—little different than discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. But accurate...

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Pan, Moon of Saturn, Looks Like a Cosmic Ravioli (or Maybe a Walnut)

In a stunning set of close-ups, Pan, a diminutive moon of Saturn, looks like a floating ravioli lost in space, or a wrinkled flying saucer.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took the photographs on Tuesday, passing within 15,268 miles of the moon, which has a diameter of about 20 miles, roughly the...

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EPA's Chief Environmental Justice Official Steps Down

One of the EPA programs the administration may eliminate is the office of Environmental Justice, according to The Washington Post. Steve Inskeep talks to Mustafa Ali, who helped found the office.


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Meet Diego, the Centenarian Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species

CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION, Galápagos — Of all the giant tortoises on these islands, where the theory of evolution was born, only a few have received names that stuck.
There was Popeye, adopted by sailors at an Ecuadorean naval base. There was Lonesome George, last of his line, who...

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Strange new Nebula is missing its light source

The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of gases?
Researchers led by Zheng Cai, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered an “enormous...

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This Moon Of Saturn May Be Tiny, But It Sure Looks Like A Mouthful : The Two-Way : NPR

That’s no ravioli! Pan, one of Saturn’s moons, bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain stuffed pasta.

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Complex synthetic life moves closer with designer yeast genome | Reuters

By Ben Hirschler
| LONDON


LONDON Scientists have taken a big step toward designing complex forms of life from scratch by constructing five new artificial chromosomes of baker’s yeast, representing a third of the micro-organism’s genome, or genetic...

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Aerial survey of polar ice expands to Arctic

March 10 (UPI) — The NASA mission that has produced unprecedented aerial 3D-views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets will be expanding for the first time to the Arctic Eurasian Basin.
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’FIRE TORNADOES AND TSUNAMIS’ THIS is what would kill us if an asteroid hit | Science | News

Before the asteroid has hit the ground, it is likely to kill more people than the actual impact will, scientists say.
If, or when, an asteroid does shoot towards Earth, once it enters the atmosphere the sheer force and energy that comes with it will cause more damage than the impact.
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Elon Musk Claims Tesla Can Solve South Australia's Energy Crisis In 100 Days

South Australia has been engulfed in a full-blown energy crisis for months now, with residents enduring seemingly endless blackouts and price spikes.


Enter Silicon Valley’s resident superhero, Elon Musk, who in typically audacious form has said he can not only solve the problem, but also...

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Toward Aflatoxin-Free Transgenic Corn | The Scientist Magazine®

Left: A. flavus–infected non-transgenic and transgenic corn kernels; right: non-transgenic and transgenic corn plantsMONICA A. SCHMIDT

Aspergillus molds make some 16 million tons of corn unsafe for consumption each year. It’s not the fungus itself that’s the problem, however; it’s the...

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Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof

“I hope and believe this will start something,” the musician, Jon Larsen, said in an interview. His goal? “Making it easy.”
His book, “In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micro-Meteorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters,” due out in August, details the secret of his extraordinarily successful...

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'He Needs To Listen To Us.' Protesters Call On Trump To Respect Native Sovereignty : The Two-Way : NPR

Demonstrators march in Washington, D.C., on Friday, calling on the Trump administration to meet with tribal leaders and opposing construction of the nearly complete Dakota Access Pipeline.

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First Underwater Video of Elusive True’s Beaked Whales

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Her current research started in 2012, with a whale that washed up on the shore of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, a Spanish territory in the Atlantic. Using its DNA, Dr. Aguilar de Soto and her team identified it as a True’s whale. But it had an unusual...

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Rabbit hole leads to 700 year old Knights Templar cave

Rabbit hole leads to 700 year old Knights Templar cave
Rabbit hole leads to an incredible secret – the entrance to a mysterious cave network used by the Knights Templar 700 years ago.
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NASA Images Reveal Saturn's Moon Pan Has A Food-Like Appearance : The Salt : NPR

Over 700 million miles away, a tiny space dumpling orbits Saturn.








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How about some tasty woolly rhinoceros for dinner? | Reuters

By Will Dunham
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WASHINGTON Ancient DNA from dental plaque is revealing intriguing new information about Neanderthals including specific menu items in their diet like woolly rhinoceros and wild mushrooms as well as their use of plant-based medicine to...

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ISS to house Cold Air Labratory for extreme temperature atomic research

March 8 (UPI) — The International Space Station will be home to the coldest place in the universe this summer after NASA scientists conduct experiments in a chamber that cools temperatures to near absolute zero.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of...

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Cavemen had painkillers through their diet of mushrooms, pine nuts and moss | Science | News

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Cavemen’s painkillers came from, among other things, mushrooms


The astonishing findings show our ancient ancestors used plants to relieve toothache and stomach bugs before the discovery of aspirin or penicillin.
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This Ancient Greek Technique Can Actually Double Your Memory, Say Scientists

Trying to remember things can be difficult, we’re only human after all.


Well what if we told you that there was an ancient technique that could effectively double your memory.


Researchers from Radboud University have found scientific proof that by creating a fictional place in your mind...

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Terabytes of Government Data Copied

Agulhas Return Current (ARC) Ocean Climate Station mooringNOAAIn the past several months, a movement has sprung up among librarians, environmental and computer scientists, and supporters of access to public data to create archives of environmental information. While the volume of material...

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Our Universe’s Very Dusty Early, Early Beginnings

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Warm Winter Can Be Deadly For Snowmobilers And Ice Fishermen

The unusually warm winter has proven deadly in the northeast. More than a dozen people, including snowmobilers and ice fishermen, have died when they fell through thin lake ice.


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Across the Parched Prairie, Fires Scorch 2,300 Square Miles

The National Weather Service has issued a critical fire risk warning from the Texas Panhandle into Oklahoma, Kansas and western Missouri.

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California fault capable of producing magnitude-7.4 earthquake, study says

SAN DIEGO –  An earthquake fault running from San Diego Bay to Los Angeles is capable of producing a magnitude-7.4 earthquake that could affect some of the region’s most densely populated areas, according to a study released Tuesday.
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Women Of NASA To Be Immortalized — In Lego Form : The Two-Way : NPR

The Women of NASA set, submitted by Maia Weinstock, celebrates female NASA pioneers.


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Europe launches fifth Sentinel Earth observation satellite | Reuters

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'Marginal value theorem' predicts movements of human hunter-gatherers

March 6 (UPI) — New research shows the “marginal value theorem” successfully predicts the movement of human hunter-gatherer camps like those of the Batek, an indigenous people living in the rainforest of Peninsular Malaysia.
The theorem has previously been used to describe...

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SPACE WEATHER WARNING: Phenomenon is a ‘GLOBAL THREAT’ which could devastate world trade | Science | News

Researchers from the Met Office, Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) have gathered in London to discuss the threat of the phenomenon.
While space weather is largely irrelevant when it comes to human health, the way that it can affect our technology can be detrimental to our lifestyle...

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Why That 'Clean Swimming Pool' Smell Is Actually Bad For Your Health

Simon Cotton, University of Birmingham and Laura Finney, University of Nottingham
It’s recently been reported that scientists have managed to create a test to measure how much urine is in a swimming pool. It seems that peeing in the pool has become commonplace, and even high-profile...

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Q&A: Encoding a Classic Film, Computer Operating System in DNA

Dina Zielinski and Yaniv Erlich NEW YORK GENOME CENTERYaniv Erlich and colleagues encoded large media files in DNA, copied the DNA multiple times, and still managed to retrieve the files without any errors, they reported in Science today (March 2). Compared with cassette tapes and 8 mm...

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Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women

Scientists now know we are not the center of the universe, nor are we even made of the same stuff as most of creation. Cosmologists have now concluded that there is five or 10 times as much dark matter in the universe as there is ordinary atomic matter — the stuff of stars, planets and...

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How Administration Regs Could Affect The Future Of The Electric Car

President Trump promised to roll back fuel economy rules put in place by the Obama administration. It could take years to play out. What’s at stake in the near term: the future of the electric car.


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Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data — If They Can Find It

But concern about the vulnerability of scientific information has also focused attention on a nonpartisan problem of digital-age government: Much of the scientific information so painstakingly collected over the decades, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, remains held only by the...

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Scientists have plan to bring back Mars' oceans

Mars isn’t particularly habitable to humans at the moment, but NASA’s latest brainstorm could one day bring back the planet’s beaches—or at least some of its oceans, Engadget reports.
At a workshop in DC last week, scientists from the agency’s Planetary Science...

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Tracking Lightning Strikes, From Space : The Two-Way : NPR

An image of Western Hemisphere lightning storms, captured Feb. 14 over the course of one hour. Brighter colors indicate more lightning energy was recorded (the key is in kilowatt-hours of total optical emissions from lightning.) The most powerful storm system is...

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NASA Mars satellite shifts course to avoid hitting planet's moon | Reuters

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A NASA science satellite orbiting Mars was forced to make a rare evasive maneuver to avoid a collision next week with one of the planet’s two small moons, the U.S. space agency said on...

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New Hubble image showcases galactic hybrid UGC 12591

March 3 (UPI) — Hubble released a new image this week showcasing the galaxy UGC 12591. The galaxy is noted for its massive size and unusual structure.
UGC 12591 is a hybrid galaxy, combining the characteristics of both lenticular and spiral galaxies. The hybrid is four times more...

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Foreign black object hovering over secret research complex in Texas | Science | News

The terrifying black cube was snapped over El Paso on the Texas border just a few miles from White Sands – the infamous US military testing site where the world’s first Atomic bomb was detonated.
Almost all the experimental weapons research carried out ay White Sands is highly...

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Scientists Now Know How Pandas Got Their Patches

The iconic black and white stripes of the giant panda make it one of the most recognisable animals on the planet.


Yet despite this scientists have, until now, had absolutely no definitive explanation as to why pandas are black and white.



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Key Regulator of Intestinal Homeostasis Identified

Artist’s rendition of a macrophage in the gut and epigenome (green balls are the basic units of chromatin, with nucleosomes wrapped twice around an octamer of a histone)ELLA MARU STUDIO

Researchers are only beginning to understand the roles of the hundreds of proteins involved in...

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First Seen 30 Years Ago, a Supernova Refuses to Be Ignored

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On the morning of Feb. 23, 1987, a couple of...

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For The First Time In 146 Years Chicago Goes Without Snow During January And February : NPR

Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist for WGN-TV and The Chicago Tribune, talks about the Windy City’s changing weather, specifically the record-breaking lack of snow this year.





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Pawnee Nation Sues Oklahoma Oil Companies in Tribal Court Over Earthquake Damage

Lawyers representing the 3,200-member tribe in north central Oklahoma say the lawsuit is the first earthquake-related litigation filed in a tribal court. If an appeal were filed in a jury decision, it could be heard by a five-member tribal Supreme Court, and that decision would be...

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Scientists find dozens of new species in Gulf of Mexico after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

It may have been one of the world’s largest oil spill disasters but the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have had little effect on the ecosystem as dozens of new species of animals are living in the body of water.
A group of oceanographers...

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Science Explores Why Astronauts Eyes Change In Space : Shots

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Mars astronaut radiation shield set for moon mission trial-developer | Reuters

By Ori Lewis and Rinat Harash
| HAIFA, Israel


HAIFA, Israel A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said.

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Scientists successfully store computer files in DNA

March 2 (UPI) — DNA is nature’s hard drive, capable of storing, replicating and transmitting massive amounts of information. Researchers in New York found a way to use DNA like an actual computer hard drive, successfully storing, replicating and retrieving several digital...

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QUANTUM LEAP – Can this 90-year-old man REALLY jump between alternate universes? | Science | News

Burt Goldman, who has been described as The American Monk, has spent more than half a century perfecting the art of meditation, and believes that he is now able to reach such a state of zen that he can quantum jump to alternate universes through mediation.
Mr Goldman’s claims rely on the...

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How We Discovered The World's Oldest Fossils

Over 3,770m years ago, the Earth looked very different. There were no plants, no animals, the sky was not blue. The surface would have resembled a bare rocky wasteland.


Yet it was around this time that we think the first life appeared, deep in the ocean around hot fissures in the seabed...

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Cortical Interneurons Show Layer-Specific Activities

Researchers examine the firing patterns of interneurons throughout all layers of the somatosensory cortices of alert mice.


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India Launches 104 Satellites From a Single Rocket, Ramping Up a Space Race

NEW DELHI — India’s space agency launched a flock of 104 satellites into space over the course of 18 minutes on Wednesday, nearly tripling the previous record for single-day satellite launches and establishing India as a key player in a growing commercial market for space-based surveillance...

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Rick Perry Sworn In As Energy Secretary : The Two-Way : NPR

Energy Secretary Rick Perry was sworn in Thursday, apparently having come to terms with heading the agency he once wanted to abolish.

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Sydney’s Swelter Has a Climate Change Link, Scientists Say

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In new territory, good froggy dads go cannibal

Now that’s an unreliable babysitter: Male poison frogs (Allobates femoralis) take care of egg clutches, even those that aren’t theirs, in their own territories. But if these frogs move into a new territory, watch out: They eat every egg in sight.
A team of researchers, led by Eva...

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Women Of NASA To Be Given The Lego Treatment : NPR

Five “Women of NASA” will be given the LEGO treatment. The toy company announced at the end of February that it will produce the set designed by MIT News science editor and LEGO fan, Maia Weinstock.





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NASA inks deal with Boeing for extra rides for astronauts | Reuters

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA will pay Boeing Co up to $373.5 million for rides to fly up to five astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz capsules, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.

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Study: Trip around the sun may have altered comet water cycle

Feb. 28 (UPI) — Water production processes on Oort cloud comet C/2014 Q2, comet Lovejoy, may have been altered during the comet’s closest approach to the sun, its perihelion.
Keck Observatory readings showed comet Lovejoy began producing two to three times more HDO, a heavier...

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Nasa to send probe to the SUN in order to protect us from CATASTROPHIC solar event | Science | News

The Solar Plus Probe – which will hit speeds approaching half a million miles-per-hour – is to be launched towards the sun next year as Nasa hopes to understand “the threats of space weather”.
The plan mimics the plotline from Danny Boyle sci-fi thriller Sunshine in which a manned...

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Bringing The Woolly Mammoth Back To Life Might Not Be Such A Good Idea After All

The question of whether researchers can haul the woolly mammoth back into existence has fascinated the scientific community for years.


But after scientists revealed they are just two years away from creating a hybrid embryo, some have asked if the ancient creature should be reborn.


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How Bacteria Interfere with Insect Reproduction

Wolbachia (red) in insect testes (blue)VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, SETH BORDENSTEINTwo papers published in Nature and Nature Microbiology yesterday (February 27) resolve one of the longest-standing puzzles in entomology: how Wolbachia bacteria cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in their...

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SpaceX Plans to Send 2 Tourists Around Moon in 2018

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SpaceX, the ambitious rocket company headed by Elon Musk, wants to send a...

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California Weighs Tougher Emissions Rules For Gas-Powered Garden Equipment : NPR

California is looking into ways to reduce the use of gas-powered lawn and gardening equipment because they will soon surpass cars as the biggest polluters in the state.

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How to Have a Green Vacation

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With the United Nations designating 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, there has never been a better time to be more environmentally conscious when traveling. And, it’s...

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Historic supernova explosion still shines bright after 30 years

The strikingly bright shock waves from a massive star explosion first observed in 1987 can still be seen today, three decades later.
This brilliant star explosion, called Supernova 1987A, occurred only 160,000 light-years from Earth in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way known as the Large...

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SpaceX Moves To Launch First-Ever Private Mission To The Moon : NPR

SpaceX claims it will launch the first ever private moon mission in 2018, which would send people to the moon for the first time in 45 years. The announcement may signify the start of a new race to the moon, this time between NASA and the private space industry.





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