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Mount Everest Is Melting
Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said today (May 14) at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have...
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Watch The Collapse Of One Of The World's Biggest Glaciers
A deafening rumble alerted two scientists to an amazing sight: the collapse of one of Greenland's biggest and fastest-moving glaciers.And because the scientists were already in place with a time-lapse...
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Almost All Scientists Agree That Humans Are Causing Climate Change
A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change is caused by human activity.Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal...
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Oldest Water On Earth Found Deep Underground
A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old — the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life — has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the...
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Processed Foods Contain Crazy High Levels Of Sodium
Despite recent calls for food manufacturers to cut back on salt in their products, sodium levels in processed and restaurant foods have changed little in recent years, a new study suggests.The study,...
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The Inevitable Global Population Collapse
Humans live in equilibrium with other species in a finite world. In such a world, there is never really a Steady State. Instead, there is a constant ebb and flow. One species may be dominant in an...
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The Greatest Blunders Of Genius Scientists
Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.In...
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The First Humans To Live On Mars Need To Be Farmers
WASHINGTON — The first humans to live on Mars might not identify as astronauts, but farmers.To establish a sustainable settlement on Earth's solar system neighbor, space travelers will have to learn...
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Brain-Controlling Magnets Exist, And Scientists Are Making Them Stronger
If you were to tell people that the technology exists to manipulate the workings of people's brains, they may not believe you. That sort of thing is the stuff of cheap sci-fi B movies. If someone in...
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We Can Now Predict Where Hurricane Blackouts Will Happen
Researchers have developed software to predict where blackouts are most likely to happen when storms hit, which could help authorities cut the amount of time people are in the dark after disasters like...
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Harvard Graduate Wants IQ To Be A Screening Factor For Immigrants
The old issue of genes, race and intelligence has exploded once again.The trigger this time is social scientist Jason Richwine, who recently co-authored a study of immigration for the Heritage...
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The 5 Ways We Learn Languages — And Which Is Best For You
Have you ever been to a place where you didn’t know the language? Have you ever wanted to learn a language, but thought the process is too difficult, or takes too long?Sometimes it seems as if there...
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Now You Can 3D Print Your Own Invisibility Cloak
Invisibility cloaks made of plastic can now be created at home using 3D printers, researchers show.The first clues that cloaking devices might one day become more than science fiction, a la "Star Trek"...
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This Week's Super Active Sun Could Disrupt Cell Phone, Radio, And GPS...
This week has seen the most active solar flares in this sun cycle, which began in 2008 and will last until 2019.Four high-strength flares occurred May 13 into May 14."Basically, this is as busy as the...
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Summer Was The Ancient Egyptian Sex Season
The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest.Researchers made this discovery at a cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt whose...
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Thousands Of British Are Getting Measles Because Parents Didn't Vaccinate Them
LONDON (AP) — More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials...
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100% Of Gerbils Sent On Russian Space Flight Die
A number of mice and eight gerbils sent into space in a Russian capsule destined to find out how well organisms can withstand extended flights perished during their journey, scientists said Sunday as...
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Frogs Swallow Using Their Eyeballs
NEW YORK — Neon green, vivid orange, striped and spotted — the frogs are back! An exhibit featuring live frogs from around the world is returning to the American Museum of Natural History here in New...
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Why Feeling Anxious About A Vaccine Makes It More Effective
SAN FRANCISCO—Standing at a podium in front of an audience of psychiatrists, clinicians and scientists, Firdaus Dhabhar brings up a video of his infant son on a large projector screen and presses...
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There's No Scientific Proof That E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit
Smokers who wish to quit commonly use electronic cigarettes to help them, despite the lack of evidence that the devices work, a new study finds.One-third of smokers looking to quit had used...
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