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Curiosity Made Its Move And Saw Its Tracks
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its first halting steps on the Red Planet today (Aug. 22), snapping photos of its tracks to commemorate the test drive milestone. The 1-ton Curiosity rover was slated...
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The Arctic Ice Cap Is About To Hit Its Lowest Level Ever
The Arctic ice cap is close to its record lowest level with a fortnight remaining until the end of the melt season. Scientists in the US said the loss of ice in the Arctic this summer was likely to be...
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The Five Biggest Science Gaffes By Politicians
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo) is in hot water with the public — and his own political party — for claiming that pregnancy from "legitimate rape" is rare because "the female body has ways to try to shut that...
View ArticleAerospace Engineers Invent A Working Hovercraft
A resurrected hover vehicle won't fly through dense forests as effortlessly as the "Star Wars" speeder bikes from "Return of the Jedi," but its intuitive controls could someday allow anyone to fly it...
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Babies Born To Older Fathers Are More Likely To Have Health Problems
Men should not delay parenthood because the children of older fathers are more than twice as likely to be born with genetic mutations which can lead to health problems, a study has found. Fertility...
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Gibbons Sing Like Human Sopranos When Dosed With Helium
Singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers when calling to one another across the jungle, a study has found. Humans were believed to have evolved our unique speaking ability...
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60 Minutes Of Working Out Doesn't Make You Lose More Weight Than 30 Minutes
If you want to lose weight, exercising for more than 30 minutes a day may be wasted effort, a new study from Denmark suggests. In the study, participants who exercised for 30 minutes a day for three...
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A Snake Has Died Of A Manbite
A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake subsequently bit the snake to death, a local newspaper reported on Thursday (Aug. 23). After being bitten by the snake, while he was working in his rice...
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Arctic Sea Ice To Reach A Record Low Within Days
Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early as this weekend, in "dramatic changes" signalling that man-made global warming is having a major impact on the polar region....
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Genetic Engineering Turns Bacteria Into Car Fuel
A humble soil bacteria has become a genetically engineered factory capable of making fuel for cars. But the project still has to get out of the lab and scale up to industrial-size production. The MIT...
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Mysterious Origins Of The Most Powerful Exploding Stars Revealed
The most powerful exploding stars in the universe are still cloaked in mystery, but some are now yielding the secrets of their origins, scientists say. Research is also shedding light on gamma-ray...
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Researchers Have Spotted Sugar Floating Around A Sun-Like Star In Deep Space
What a sweet cosmic find! Sugar molecules have been found in the gas surrounding a young sun-like star, suggesting that some of the building blocks of life may actually be present even as alien...
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The Mysterious Disappearance Of 200 Pigeons Has Been Boggling Bird Lovers
Hundreds of racing pigeons have been disappearing over a sleepy pocket of North East England, earning the region a reputation as the "Birdmuda Triangle." On Saturday (Aug. 25), the Telegraph...
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These Endangered Tiger Cubs Are Going To Be Flooded Out Of Their Home
Two endangered tiger cubs and their mother have been caught on film in Thailand near the site of a proposed hydroelectric dam. The black-and-white footage, taken in May, shows a mother tiger...
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Millions Of New Black Holes Discovered
A jackpot of previously unknown black holes across the universe has been discovered by the infrared eyes of a prolific NASA sky-mapping telescope. The cosmic find comes from data collected by NASA's...
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A New Tick-Transmitted Virus Has Been Sickening Missourians
Two men in Missouri who became severely ill after sustaining tick bites were found to be infected with a new type of virus, according to a study from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention...
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TB Cases Are Increasingly Resistant To All Drugs, Study Warns
Cases of tuberculosis that are resistant to virtually all drugs currently available to treat the disease are increasing at an alarming rate around the world, according to a study. The paper, in the...
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How Medicine Hat, Alberta Keeps Its Rat Population At Zero
FINDING rats in the town dump is hardly cause for comment in most of the world. Rattus norvergicus (the Norway rat) has spread to all but a few bits of the planet, giving rise to the urban myth that...
View ArticleAn Arctic Sea Ice Low Point
One of the most closely watched benchmarks of climate change reached a modern high – or low – point this week, as ice covering the Arctic Ocean diminished to the smallest extent observed since...
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Starving Yourself May Not Help You Live Longer
Drastically reducing calorie intake may not be as effective as previously thought for prolonging lifespan, according to a 23-year study published in Nature. The idea that eating less could slow the...
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