When is the Taurid Meteor Shower 2017? How to watch the South Taurids THIS WEEKEND | Science | News

When is the Taurid Meteor Shower 2017?
Stargazers are looking forward to what astronomers have dubbed the “Halloween Fireballs” this weekend. 
Like the North Taurids, which peak on November 11 and 12, the shower is not the most active in the astronomical calendar but regularly produces...

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The Weird Growth Strategy of Earth’s First Trees

A Xinicaulis tree trunk fossilPNASDuring the Devonian period, from about 420 million to 359 million years ago, complex terrestrial plant life really took off. The first rooted plants evolved, and by the end of the period, forests had colonized the environment, sucking up vast amounts of...

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Who Is George Papadopoulos, Trump Aide Who Lied To FBI About Russian ‘Dirt’?

A foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to FBI agents about “dirt” he was offered on Hillary Clinton.

George Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on October 5, but the case wasn’t unsealed until Monday, according to a...

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Nibiru latest: Vatican cover up of Planet X | Science | News

Pope Francis is aware of the planet known as Nibiru and its powers, and is keeping it a secret from the world, according to the new theory.
US Nibiru expert, CJ, who declined to reveal his surname, claims the Vatican is among a group of “elite leaders” involved in suppressing information...

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RNA Editing Possible with CRISPR-Cas13

WIKIMEDIA, NICOLLE RAGER, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONFusing an RNA-editing enzyme to an RNA-targeting Cas protein has enabled researchers to edit specific nucleotides within RNA molecules in human cells. The approach, called RNA Editing for Programmable A-to-I replacement (REPAIR), is...

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Barack Obama To Show Up For Jury Duty After Being Called To Serve In Cook County

Barack Obama reportedly plans to show up for jury duty next month after being called to serve in Illinois.
The former US President has said that he will fulfill his obligations on the jury, the chief judge of Cook County Circuit Court said on Friday.
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END OF THE WORLD: Earthquake November 19 Nibiru / Planet X / Black Star | Science | News

The destruction will hit vulnerable areas all over the world from France and Italy to Alaska and Russia, to the American West Coast, Indonesia and Japan – and loss of life is predicted to be in the millions.
The group has been charting the movements of the so-called Black Star, aka Nemesis,...

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University of Chicago Graduate Students Vote to Unionize

University of Chicago graduate students at the March on the Boss rally, a pro-unionizing event, held May 25, 2017CLAUDIO GONZÁLESIn a National Labor Review Board (NLRB) election last week (October 17-18), University of Chicago teaching and research assistants voted to authorize Graduate...

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Daily Telegraph Admits 'Decolonise' Cambridge Curriculum Story Was Wrong As Student Lola Olufemi Condemns Newspaper

The Daily Telegraph has admitted its story suggesting the University of Cambridge was being “forced” to drop white writers from its curriculum was inaccurate, as the black student who featured on its front page spoke out after suffering “racist and sexist abuse” as a result.
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Human skull thought to be 6,000 YEARS OLD could be world's earliest tsunami victim | Science | News

In 1929, Australian geologist Paul Hossfeld stumbled on a partial human skull in a mangrove outside the coastal town of Aitape in Papua New Guinea.
Originally thought to belong to Homo erectus, the skull was subsequently dated to the mid-Holocene period, about 6,000 years ago.
Now, new...

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Base Editing Now Able to Convert Adenine-Thymine to Guanine-Cytosine

ISTOCK, BEHOLDINGEYEBase editing is a relatively recent genome-editing technique that swaps one DNA base pair for another, offering researchers the potential to correct harmful, single-nucleotide mutations in the human genome. But current classes of base editors only allow the conversion...

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Gemma Collins Is Hoping PR From *That* Fall Will Help Boost 'TOWIE' Ratings, Says Charlie King

Gemma Collins’s fall at the Radio 1 Teen Awards is all anyone can talk about this week, and she is hoping to use that to TOWIE’s advantage, according to her co-star Charlie King. 
The fitness instructor, who appears on the ITVBe show alongside The GC, has claimed she believes...

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Have we found a way to LIVE FOREVER? Scientists discover method to HALT ageing | Science | News

A molecular pathway known as Kruppel-like transcription factors (KLFs) can be increased or decreased in terms of volume to potentially increase the lifetime of an animal.
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine made the discovery after artificially editing the...

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Building Blocks of Life May Have Formed in Water Droplets

PXHEREReactions in tiny droplets of water may have given rise to some of the molecules essential for the origin of life.

These reactions, which require a lot of energy in large vats of liquids, are nearly spontaneous in small droplets, researchers report today (October 23) in the...

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Orionids 2017 in India: Where to watch the Orionid meteor shower in India tonight? | Science | News

Star gazers across India will train their eyes on the remnants of Halley’s Comet as they burn up in the atmosphere at 66km/s.
The Orionids appear in the night skies every year towards the end of October, but will peak overnight on Friday October 20 and Sunday October 22.
As many as 10...

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Germany Sees Drastic Decrease in Insects

Insects within alcohol Malaise trapENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY KREFELD Sampling from 63 protected nature areas throughout Germany, researchers have found a drop in flying insect mass by about 76 percent over 27 years. The results, published today (October 18) in PLOS ONE, are drastic, but are...

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How to watch Uranus TONIGHT? Planet visible to the naked eye in the sky | Science | News

Astronomy enthusiasts will be treated to an unprecedented view of Uranus when the gas giant makes its closest approach to Earth tonight.
When Uranus reaches opposition, it will sit directly across from the sun and illuminate the sky, giving star gazers the best chance to spot it in the...

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Vaping vs. Smoking: Can E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit?

ISTOCK, RYANJLANE Kat Rose of Lakewood, Colorado, started smoking cigarettes when she was 12 years old. Ultimately, it was the smell that drove her to want to ditch the habit. “Constantly, my son was like, ‘Mom, you stink,’” she says. But quitting had been a struggle for Rose, a...

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LIFE AFTER DEATH: When you die you KNOW you’re dead | Science | News

When the heart stops the blood supply to the brain is quickly cut off – and in operating theatres this moment would be recorded as the official time of death.
But studies show that the dead person’s mind and consciousness continue to work, at least for a shoirt time – meaning the deceased...

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Bacteria Found in Women’s Upper Reproductive Tracts

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Scientists have long known that in healthy humans, a diverse universe of microbes exists in the vagina. But the existence of bacteria in women’s upper reproductive tract, which includes the uterus and fallopian tubes, remains controversial. A new study, published today...

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AI nano-machines injected into humans will REPAIR bodies from inside | Science | News

The micro technology, potentially available in just 20 years, would be injected into people to fix bones, muscles and cells.
That could include spotting abnormalities in the body’s cells like cancer and ridding them from the body.
And it could even boost our brains with cutting-edge computer...

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On Science and Hip Hop: Q&A with the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA

WIKIMEDIA, FLOWIZMYesterday evening (October 12), GZA, one of the founding members of the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, addressed a large crowd at the University of Colorado Boulder with a few of his verses: “There appeared a speck of light, infinitely hot and extremely bright. Within the center of...

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Asteroid 2012 TC4: Space rock could come back and SMASH into Earth in the near future | Science | News

Asteroid 2012 TC4 has been whizzing past Earth over the last few days in a historic flyby.
But now scientists say the asteroid’s orbit around the sun could lead it on to a collision course with Earth in the future.
The 30 metre-long asteroid flew past Earth at a distance of 27,300 miles –...

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GM Mosquitoes Closer to Release in U.S.

An adult Aedes aegypti mosquito emerges from its pupal case.OXITECLast week (October 5), the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will assume responsibility for overseeing the approval and use of mosquitoes genetically...

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Asteroid 2012 TC4 live stream: How to watch huge rock skim past Earth | Science | News

NASA expects Asteroid 2012 TC4 to shoot past the Earth at a distance of just 31,000 miles and could even come as close as 4,200 miles. 
For context, the Moon is about 384,000 miles from the surface of our planet.
Tonight’s passing will make 2012 TC4 is the first known asteroid to pass less...

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Circadian Gene Linked to Severe Epilepsy in Children

Arrows indicate the brain regions where seizures originate in one of the patients included in the study. LIU ET AL.

In the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the brain’s central pacemaker, CLOCK (circadian locomotor output cycles kaput) is a transcription factor that plays a crucial role in...

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SpaceX launch stream: Falcon 9 rocket launches 10 Iridium NEXT satellites – WATCH it here | Science | News

The SpaceX Falcon9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 8.37am local time (1.37pm BST).
Onboard were 10 satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation – a communications network which will eventually be made up of 66 primary satellites and nine back-ups.
The first...

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CRISPR System Targets RNA in Mammalian Cells

Cas13a bound to and cleaving single-stranded RNA.STEPHEN DIXONBack in 2016, scientists uncovered CRISPR proteins that bind and cleave single-stranded RNA, rather than DNA. Now, the same team from MIT has tweaked the system, called CRISPR-Cas13a, to work in mammalian cells.

“Prior to...

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When is the Draconid meteor shower 2017? What time can you see it? | Science | News

Up to a thousand shooting stars an hour could be on display during the peak of the shower expected on Sunday (October 8). 
The Draconids got their name because they radiate out from a constellation known as Draco the Dragon.
What is the best time to see the Draconids? 
This year’s Draconid...

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How Animals and Plants Weather Hurricanes

Despite the devastation to Puerto Rico, its only native parrot, Amazona vittata, appears to have weathered Hurricane Maria fairly well. That wasn’t the case for this endangered species in previous storms.WIKIMEDIA, TOM MACKENZIEHurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico. With sustained winds of...

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Afterlife Files Takes The Deepest Possible Look Into Electronic Voice Phenomena

I think we all know about Electronic Voice Phenomena. But still, just FYI, when the dead attempt to communicate with the living, there are a number of stereotypical ways such a communication occurs. Sometimes, they appear as dewy apparitions, sometimes as floating orbs of light. Sometimes...

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Exploding shooting star 'superbolide' creates HUGE FIREBALL as it bursts over city | Science | News

The astrological event, dubbed a “superbolide” was an exploding meteor that shined brighter than the moon in Yunnan Province, Shangri-La County.
NASA described the star as a huge fireball that dazzled eyewitnesses who saw it flit through the sky yesterday.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a...

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Effects of Neanderthal DNA on Modern Humans

WIKIMEDIA, HAIRYMUSEUMMATTPeople of Caucasian descent have, within their genomes, small amounts of Neanderthal DNA. Previous studies have shown this ancient DNA may influence a person’s health, but a new study in the American Journal of Human Genetics today (October 5) reveals that the...

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Liberals And Conservatives Are Both Biased Against Science, But In Different Ways

We usually think of political conservatives as the anti-science contingent, owing to their factions who deny, among other scientifically-verifiable facts, climate change and evolution. That may not be quite fair, as recent anti-vaccination arguments have often come from those who identify...

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DISASTER WARNING: Deadly storms and food shortages will get WORSE, warn scientists | Science | News

On the back of deadly storms in the Caribbean and wildfires raging across the US and Australia, scientists are warning that this is just the beginning of a growing number of disasters.
In the future, even parts of Southern Europe will be too hot for humans to reside in in the future, and...

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DNA-Delivered Antibodies Fight Off Lethal Bacterial Infection

Mouse muscle (nuclei stained blue) expresses monoclonal antibodies (green) that are protective against the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.AMI PATEL

US researchers have successfully delivered a monoclonal antibody against a severe bacterial infection using DNA—the first time such a...

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Spreading Pseudoscience: 5 Reasons Why Some Liberals Are as Bad as Conservatives

With the recent measles outbreak in Disneyland being linked to largely unvaccinated districts in Southern California, it is apparent that we are in the midst of a time when misinformation is running rampant. Although anti-science sentiment has historically been found in highly religious and...

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Big One WILL hit California soon as huge earthquake rattles Mexico, scientist warns | Science | News

In the days following the powerful 7.1 quake in Mexico City which killed more than 200 people, California was also hit by a handful of smaller tremors – with the most powerful registering at 3.2.
Beneath California, the Pacific and North American tectonic plates are moving northward –...

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Coastal Critters Make Epic Voyages After 2011 Tsunami

Coauthor John Chapman of Oregon State University inspects a Japanese vessel that washed ashore on Long Beach, Washington.RUSS LEWISPieces of plastic and other ocean debris gave coastal critters a ride to other continents following the enormous earthquake-generated tsunami that hit the...

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