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DNA reveals a European Neandertal lineage that lasted 80,000 years
Neandertals had evolutionary stamina. An unbroken genet...Read more
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Fossils in Burmese amber offer an exquisite view of dinosaur times—and an ethical minefield
TENGCHONG, CHINA—On an overcast spring morning, a mosai...Read more
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Two hours a week is key dose of nature for health and wellbeing
Spending at least two hours a week in nature may be a c...Read more
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The world’s first direct images of a black hole
An international team of over 200 astronomers has captu...Read more
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Archaeologists discover Incan tomb in Peru
Peruvian archaeologists discovered an Incan tomb in the...Read more
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New Tonga island ‘now home to flowers and owls’
Scientists have found signs of life on one of the world...Read more
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Magnetic north just changed. Here’s what that means
Magnetic north has never sat still. In the last hundred...Read more
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Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are no...Read more
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Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why?!
Something strange is going on at the top of the world. ...Read more
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The smoking gun of a newborn star
In this image the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has c...Read more
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Chinese scientists turn copper into ‘gold’
A team of Chinese researchers have turned cheap copper ...Read more
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If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind!
NEVER trust the textbooks, even the ones written by gre...Read more
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New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos!
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved ...Read more
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A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
We present the results from three gravitational-wave se...Read more
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What Happens to the Brain in Zero Gravity?
NASA has made a commitment to send humans to Mars by th...Read more
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Don’t spank your kids. Do time-outs and positive talk instead
Sometime around 9 p.m., before the second leg of a cros...Read more
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The first observed wimpy supernova may have birthed a neutron star duo
A faint, fleeting supernova may be the key to understan...Read more
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Saturn’s “ring rain” is a surprising cocktail of chemicals
The “ring rain” of material falling from Saturn’s rings...Read more
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
A team of astronomers using the latest set of data from...Read more
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New Artificial Intelligence Does Something Extraordinary, It Remembers!
When you return to school after summer break, it may fe...Read more
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19,000 hours of recordings from the Apollo 11 mission online!
NASA and the University of Texas have teamed up to digi...Read more
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Could Machine Learning Mean the End of Understanding in Science?
Much to the chagrin of summer party planners, weather i...Read more
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Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus
New archaeological research from The Australian Nationa...Read more
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Liquid water spied deep below polar ice cap on Mars
Far beneath the deeply frozen ice cap at Mars’s south p...Read more
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Jupiter has 12 more moons than we knew about
Astronomers have found 12 more moons around Jupiter, an...Read more
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New results indicate interstellar nomad ‘Oumuamua’ is a comet
Oumuamua, the first interstellar object discovered in t...Read more
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Colony ship to nearest star only needs crew of 100 to survive
AN INITIAL crew of 98 people might be all that is neede...Read more
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Was That Script Written By A Human Or An AI?
If you spent time on social media today, you probably c...Read more
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Scientists Have Caught Bacteria “Fishing” For DNA From Their Dead Friends
Bacteria are slippery little suckers. They evolve rapid...Read more
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NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Launches to Probe Red Planet’s Deep Interior
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASA’s latest...Read more
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Diamonds Found in a Meteorite Once Belonged to a Lost Planet in Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered that tiny diamonds found ins...Read more
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13,000-year-old human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast
Human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast...Read more
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The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestia
A new explanation for the Moon’s origin has it fo...Read more
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Metalens combined with an artificial muscle
Inspired by the human eye, researchers at the Harvard J...Read more
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Is the Out of Africa Theory Out?
All the ancestors of contemporary Europeans apparently ...Read more
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NASA Budget Proposal Plans End of NASA Funding of ISS
WASHINGTON — NASA’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposal wi...Read more
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Deposition rates of viruses and bacteria above the atmospheric boundary layer
“Every day, more than 800 million viruses are deposited...Read more
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Sharp stones found in India signal surprisingly early toolmaking advances
Stone-tool makers in what’s now India redesigned their ...Read more
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After More Than 100 Years, Wild Wolves Are Returning to Belgium
It’s not hard to find worrying stories about the ...Read more
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Star Trek Discovery Feels Increasingly More Comfortable In a Universe of Killers
In many ways, Star Trek: Discovery suffers most of all ...Read more
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Our Bodies Could Be Treating a Western Diet Like It Was a Dangerous Infection
The immune system responds to a fast food diet in much ...Read more
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Bacteria Living in Our Gut Are Hijacking And Controlling Our Genes
Your gut microflora isn’t just sitting silently w...Read more
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The World Needs More Scientists: How We Can Train Millions in Virtual Labs
California wild fires, melting arctic ice caps, and rec...Read more
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The Most Effective Way to Lose Weight With Minimal Effort, According to Science
o you want to lose a few kilograms. You’ve h...Read more
Science links
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Interactive globe of ancient Earth!
Great interactive globe of ancient Earth! See Pangea, s...
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Celestia
The Celestia Motherlode is a repository for various add...
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Solve puzzles for Science.
Foldit is a revolutionary crowdsourcing computer game e...
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Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your c...
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Slooh
Look into space through our online telescopes, under yo...
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Spaceflightnow
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Space
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Singularityhub
Singularity Hub chronicles technological progress by hi...
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Science Alert
Mission, to fuel the public understanding of science an...
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Sciencedaily
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Futurism
Science website, Futurism covers the breakthrough techn...
Science Circle Blog
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Pigments and Colors and Dyes, Oh My! available on film
Some chemistry behind the colors we see: Pigments and C...Read more
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Darwin Day lecture available on film!
Darwin Day 2019 Lecture Heroes of Evolution: Kettlewell...Read more
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“Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease” on film
Prometheus Chained, by Peter Paul Rubens, c 1611-1615 P...Read more