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A Mind-Blowing Study Just Confirmed Earth Had Living Organisms 3.5 Billion Years Ago
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A Mind-Blowing Study Just Confirmed Earth Had Living Organisms 3.5 Billion Years Ago
In the search for the earliest life on Earth, it can be hard to tell whether you're looking at an actual fossil, or crinkles in the rock itself. Such doubts have long shadowed the 1980s discovery of 3.5 billion-year-old fossils in the Australian de
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A Worm With Three Sexes Has Been Discovered Thriving in a Nearly Lifeless Lake
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A Worm With Three Sexes Has Been Discovered Thriving in a Nearly Lifeless Lake
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A Worm With Three Sexes Has Been Discovered Thriving in a Nearly Lifeless Lake
Like the deserts of the Antarctic, or the deepest parts of the sea, Mono Lake in California is an inhospitable place for most life forms. Apart from bacteria and algae, it appears only brine shrimp and diving flies can put up with its super-salty w
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Watch The Mesmerising Colour Shifts of a Sleeping Octopus
You ever watch your pets sleeping? When they twitch their paws and whiskers, and yip and mewl? Well, cats and dogs experience REM sleep, which means they're probably dreaming. And, while evidence of REM sleep has so far not been seen in octopuses,
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A Man's Gut Bacteria Was Making Him 'Drunk' in Extremely Rare Medical Case
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A Man's Gut Bacteria Was Making Him 'Drunk' in Extremely Rare Medical Case
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A Man's Gut Bacteria Was Making Him 'Drunk' in Extremely Rare Medical Case
To the confusion of medical researchers, being teetotal is no guarantee you'll avoid the kind of liver disease that tends to affect heavy drinkers. Now, one strange medical case could get us closer to understanding why that happens.
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Unusual Lakes Detected on Titan Could Be The Ancient Scars of Giant Explosions
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Unusual Lakes Detected on Titan Could Be The Ancient Scars of Giant Explosions
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Unusual Lakes Detected on Titan Could Be The Ancient Scars of Giant Explosions
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, might have a more violent past than astronomers realised.
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First Direct Evidence Shows Bacteria Change Shape Inside Humans to Avoid Antibiotics
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First Direct Evidence Shows Bacteria Change Shape Inside Humans to Avoid Antibiotics
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First Direct Evidence Shows Bacteria Change Shape Inside Humans to Avoid Antibiotics
Widespread antibiotic use is largely to blame for the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, which is currently one of the biggest threats to global health. Not only does antibiotic resistance already cause an estimated 700,000 deaths a year,
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Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed Even Without Intensive Weight Loss, Study Shows
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Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed Even Without Intensive Weight Loss, Study Shows
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Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed Even Without Intensive Weight Loss, Study Shows
Across the world, some 400 million people experience type 2 diabetes: a chronic health condition that can affect several major organs in your body, and eventually lead to heart disease, kidney damage, blindness, and more.
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NASA's InSight Mars Lander Has Sent Back Some Truly Bizarre Sounds
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NASA's InSight Mars Lander Has Sent Back Some Truly Bizarre Sounds
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NASA's InSight Mars Lander Has Sent Back Some Truly Bizarre Sounds
NASA's Mars InSight lander has detected some "peculiar sounds," thanks to an onboard seismometer that's capable of picking up the tiniest of vibrations.
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We Just Got The First Glimpse of The Mysterious Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe
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We Just Got The First Glimpse of The Mysterious Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe
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We Just Got The First Glimpse of The Mysterious Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe
After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe – galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium – about half of it is still missing. So not only is 85 percent of the matter in the universe made
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Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
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Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
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Astronomers Have a Bold Plan to Film The Black Hole at The Centre of Our Galaxy
In April, an international team of scientists captured the first-ever photo of a black hole. In September, they won a US$3 million Breakthrough Prize for that accomplishment. But they're far from finished.
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In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
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In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
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In a Quantum First, Physicists Put 2,000 Atoms in Two Places at Once
You might be familiar with the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, where the eponymous feline in a box can be both alive or dead at the same time, often used to illustrate the multi-state paradox of quantum mechanics.
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Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
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Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
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Scientists Implant False Memories in Birds to Teach Them Songs They've Never Heard
Scientists have been able to teach birds simple songs they've never heard before by selectively activating specific neurons in their brains - effectively implanting false memories.
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We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
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We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
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We Just Got New Information on The First-Ever Plant Sprouted by China on The Moon
When China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft landed on the lunar far side on 3 January 2019, it made history. It was the first spacecraft to visit that part of the Moon, and among its payload was a 2.6 kg (5.7 lb) mini-biosphere called the Lunar Micro Ecosyst
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We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
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We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
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We Just Got More Solid Evidence Mars' Gale Crater Once Held a Vast Salty Lake
From its red and rugged surface, Mars looks like a lifeless planet, both dry and desolate. But that hasn't always been the case.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Won For Profound Discovery of How Cells Sense Oxygen
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to three physician-scientists from the United States and Britain - William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza - "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Discovery of Extrasolar Planets
This morning the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.” James Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, won half the prize for his contributions to physical cosmology, while Michel Mayor, a physicist at the University of Geneva, and Didier Queloz, an astronomer at Geneva and at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, shared the other half for the 1995 discovery of an exoplanet orbiting an sunlike star.
When Peebles began his career at Princeton in the early 1960s, there was little evidence for the Big Bang theory, the idea that the expanding universe could be extrapolated back in time to a small, hot, dense state. Read here.
The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a planet around a distant star. The cosmologist James Peebles shared the other half of the prize.This morning the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.” James Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, won half the prize for his contributions to physical cosmology, while Michel Mayor, a physicist at the University of Geneva, and Didier Queloz, an astronomer at Geneva and at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, shared the other half for the 1995 discovery of an exoplanet orbiting an sunlike star.
When Peebles began his career at Princeton in the early 1960s, there was little evidence for the Big Bang theory, the idea that the expanding universe could be extrapolated back in time to a small, hot, dense state. Read here.
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Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
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Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
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Meat Has Been Grown in Space For The First Time, Hundreds of Miles Above Earth
Space food is notoriously lacklustre, but new technology is slowly revolutionising the way astronauts eat.
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A Diamond With a Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia
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A Diamond With a Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia
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A Diamond With a Whole Other Diamond Inside It Was Discovered in Siberia
Humans have been mining diamonds for a long time, but a new stone hauled from the belly of the Earth could very well be a first. The diamond itself is hollow - and inside is another diamond, freely moving around.
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Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
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Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
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Voyager Mission Reveals Unexpected Pressure at The Edge of The Solar System
NASA astronomers have used data from the Voyager probes to measure the bustle of particles rippling at the very edge of our Solar System, and discovered the pressure in the distant borderlands of our star is higher than they expected.
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Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice
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Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice
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Scientists Have Identified The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brains of Mice
We're not wired to feel safe all the time, but maybe one day we could be.
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Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn - Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
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Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn - Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
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Astronomers Just Detected 20 New Moons Around Saturn - Why Are We Only Finding Them Now?
With the discovery of 20 more moons orbiting Saturn, the ringed planet has overtaken Jupiter as host to the most moons in the Solar system. Saturn now has 82 known moons, whereas Jupiter has a paltry 79.