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Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
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Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
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Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
Snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.
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Chang'e 4 Team Just Released Beyond Amazing New Pics of Our Moon's Far Side
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Chang'e 4 Team Just Released Beyond Amazing New Pics of Our Moon's Far Side
It's been just over a year since China's Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover landed on the far side of the Moon. All this time, they've been studying the Von Kármán crater and sharing the results through a solitary link - the Queqiao relay satellit
The world’s largest radio telescope is now fully operational.
Located and built in China, the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was making discoveries even before hitting its full stride.
It’s also the world’s most sensitive telescope and some believe could even lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life.
Located and built in China, the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was making discoveries even before hitting its full stride.
It’s also the world’s most sensitive telescope and some believe could even lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life.
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The 'Doomsday Clock' Just Jumped Closer to Midnight Than Ever. Guess Why
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The 'Doomsday Clock' Just Jumped Closer to Midnight Than Ever. Guess Why
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The 'Doomsday Clock' Just Jumped Closer to Midnight Than Ever. Guess Why
The Doomsday Clock has jumped closer to midnight than it's ever been in its 73-year history, indicating looming apocalyptic threats.
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Scientists Recreate The Voice of a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Priest's Mummy
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Scientists Recreate The Voice of a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Priest's Mummy
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Scientists Recreate The Voice of a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Priest's Mummy
If the dead could talk, they'd probably have a lot to say. Still, it's pretty darn tough when you can only make one sound and you've lost your tongue.
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Nanoparticles of Fungal Spores Have Been Detected Floating in Our Atmosphere
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Nanoparticles of Fungal Spores Have Been Detected Floating in Our Atmosphere
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Nanoparticles of Fungal Spores Have Been Detected Floating in Our Atmosphere
We all take a lot of breaths every day – it's sort of essential to living – so the science of what we're actually taking into our lungs is hugely important. That air might contain two to three times more in the way of fungal spore fragments tha
This discovery sheds light on why stress turns hair prematurely grey
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How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white
Nature - Sympathetic inputs drive hair greying in stressed mice.
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Strange Tracks in Texas Indicate Giant Sauropods Walking on Their Front Feet Only
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Strange Tracks in Texas Indicate Giant Sauropods Walking on Their Front Feet Only
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Strange Tracks in Texas Indicate Giant Sauropods Walking on Their Front Feet Only
They were the largest animals to ever walk the Earth: sauropods, a dinosaur clade of such immense size and stature, they're sometimes dubbed 'thunder lizards'.
Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For The First Timev
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Lab-Grown Heart Muscles Have Been Transplanted Into a Human For The First Time
On Monday, researchers from Japan's Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant.
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Staggering New Images of The Sun Are The Most Detailed Ever Taken
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Staggering New Images of The Sun Are The Most Detailed Ever Taken
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Staggering New Images of The Sun Are The Most Detailed Ever Taken
A new telescope built to study the Sun has released its first images, and they are just breathtaking. They show the surface of the Sun in the most exquisite detail we've ever seen - revealing convection granules the size of Texas, and tiny magnetic
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How The New Coronavirus Compares to Past Zoonotic Outbreaks, in One Simple Chart
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How The New Coronavirus Compares to Past Zoonotic Outbreaks, in One Simple Chart
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How The New Coronavirus Compares to Past Zoonotic Outbreaks, in One Simple Chart
Editor's note (2 Feb 2020): A previous version of the chart in this article incorrectly reported the case-fatality rate of H1N1. It is 0.02 percent. The city name of Marburg has also been misspelled; we regret the error.
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Mathematicians Solve an Enduring '42' Problem Using Planetary Supercomputer
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Mathematicians Solve an Enduring '42' Problem Using Planetary Supercomputer
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Mathematicians Solve an Enduring '42' Problem Using Planetary Supercomputer
Mathematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of the natural numbers below 100 be expressed as the sum of three cubes?
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Ancient Crate-Like Object May Be World's Oldest Known Wooden Structure
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Ancient Crate-Like Object May Be World's Oldest Known Wooden Structure
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Ancient Crate-Like Object May Be World's Oldest Known Wooden Structure
The old well doesn't look like much - a wooden crate-like object, dilapidated, crumbling a little. But according to new research, it's really special. A tree-ring dating technique has revealed that the oak wood used to make it was cut around 7,275
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Water Seems to Have Not One, But Two Distinct Structures in Its Liquid State
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Water Seems to Have Not One, But Two Distinct Structures in Its Liquid State
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Water Seems to Have Not One, But Two Distinct Structures in Its Liquid State
Life as we know it wouldn't exist without it, but compared to other liquids, water is just a freaking weirdo. And, as it now turns out, it's even weirder than we thought. Scientists in Japan have demonstrated that water has not one, but two differe
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A Long-Lost Legendary Roman Fruit Tree Has Been Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds
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A Long-Lost Legendary Roman Fruit Tree Has Been Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds
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A Long-Lost Legendary Roman Fruit Tree Has Been Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds
Scientists have cultivated plants from date palm seeds that languished in ancient ruins and caves for 2,000 years.
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US Trial Shows 3 Cancer Patients Had Their Genomes Altered Safely by CRISPR
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US Trial Shows 3 Cancer Patients Had Their Genomes Altered Safely by CRISPR
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US Trial Shows 3 Cancer Patients Had Their Genomes Altered Safely by CRISPR
US scientists have succeeded in genetically editing the immune systems of three cancer patients using CRISPR, without creating any side effects, a first for the tool which is revolutionizing biomedical research.
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A Device That 'Prints' New Skin Right Onto Burns Just Passed Another Animal Trial
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A Device That 'Prints' New Skin Right Onto Burns Just Passed Another Animal Trial
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A Device That 'Prints' New Skin Right Onto Burns Just Passed Another Animal Trial
In 2018, Canadian scientists unveiled a handheld device that "prints" sheets of artificial skin directly onto the wounds of burn victims.
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Physicists Have Finally Figured Out The Secret of How Soap Bubbles Get So Giant
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Physicists Have Finally Figured Out The Secret of How Soap Bubbles Get So Giant
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Physicists Have Finally Figured Out The Secret of How Soap Bubbles Get So Giant
With the right patience and finesse, you can get soap bubbles to grow to enormous sizes. At their most gigantic, with surface areas approaching 100 metres squared (over 1,000 square feet), these globules can get large enough to hold entire cars wit
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'Warning to Humanity': Stop Killing Insects Now Before It's Too Late, Say Scientists
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'Warning to Humanity': Stop Killing Insects Now Before It's Too Late, Say Scientists
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'Warning to Humanity': Stop Killing Insects Now Before It's Too Late, Say Scientists
Half of the 1 million animal and plant species on Earth facing extinction are insects, and their disappearance could be catastrophic for humankind, scientists have said in a "warning to humanity".
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Engineers Just Built an Impressively Stable Quantum Silicon Chip From Artificial Atoms
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Engineers Just Built an Impressively Stable Quantum Silicon Chip From Artificial Atoms
Newly created artificial atoms on a silicon chip could become the new basis for quantum computing.