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Here Are 5 Important Questions to Help You Tell if Health News Can Be Trusted
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Here Are 5 Important Questions to Help You Tell if Health News Can Be Trusted
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Here Are 5 Important Questions to Help You Tell if Health News Can Be Trusted
Who doesn't want to know if drinking that second or third cup of coffee a day will improve your memory, or if sleeping too much increases your risk of a heart attack?
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Babies Who Are Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Altered For Years Afterwards
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Babies Who Are Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Altered For Years Afterwards
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Babies Who Are Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Altered For Years Afterwards
The amount of close and comforting contact that young infants get doesn't just keep them warm, snug, and loved.
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This Quirky Jogging Hack Could Help You Instantly Run Longer And Faster
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This Quirky Jogging Hack Could Help You Instantly Run Longer And Faster
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This Quirky Jogging Hack Could Help You Instantly Run Longer And Faster
If you're looking for a way to run longer and faster than ever before, perhaps all you need is... a spring in your step.
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Would You Stand Up to an Authoritarian Regime or Conform? Here's The Science
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Would You Stand Up to an Authoritarian Regime or Conform? Here's The Science
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Would You Stand Up to an Authoritarian Regime or Conform? Here's The Science
Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the best people could hope for, being powerless to kick against the system.
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Let's Face It: Going Green Is Simply No Match For Cutting Back on All The Junk We Buy
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Let's Face It: Going Green Is Simply No Match For Cutting Back on All The Junk We Buy
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Let's Face It: Going Green Is Simply No Match For Cutting Back on All The Junk We Buy
If you're a millennial who likes to indulge in a bit of retail therapy to cope with anxiety over the climate crisis, we've got some bad news.
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Research Has Ignored Endometriosis For Decades, And It's Now Costing All of Us
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Research Has Ignored Endometriosis For Decades, And It's Now Costing All of Us
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Research Has Ignored Endometriosis For Decades, And It's Now Costing All of Us
The average cost for a woman with endometriosis both personally and for society is around AU$30,000 a year, according to our research, published today in the journal PLOS ONE.
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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.
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Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek's Warp Speeds Are Painfully Slow
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Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek's Warp Speeds Are Painfully Slow
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Former NASA Scientist Demonstrates Why Star Trek's Warp Speeds Are Painfully Slow
In the sci-fi universe of "Star Trek", spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum.
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We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
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We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
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We Just Found Out That The Milky Way Has Been Repeatedly Stealing Smaller Galaxies
Orbiting is par for the course in our universe. The Earth orbits the Sun, the Moon orbits the Earth, and more than 50 galaxies orbit the Milky Way, the biggest of those being the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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MIT Engineers Show Da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Radical Bridge Design Would Have Worked
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MIT Engineers Show Da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Radical Bridge Design Would Have Worked
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MIT Engineers Show Da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Radical Bridge Design Would Have Worked
We know that Leonardo da Vinci was a genius who was well ahead of his time, but even the great man himself might have struggled to believe that engineers would still be marvelling over his creations some 500 years later.
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Orangutans Can Play The Kazoo, And It's Changing Our Knowledge of How Speech Evolved
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Orangutans Can Play The Kazoo, And It's Changing Our Knowledge of How Speech Evolved
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Orangutans Can Play The Kazoo, And It's Changing Our Knowledge of How Speech Evolved
A kazoo might seem a world away from the spoken word. But our ability to produce its buzzing, Donald Duck-like sound at will was key in us ever developing the ability to speak at all.
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Astronomers Observe in Incredible Detail a Black Hole Flickering in Our Own Galaxy
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Astronomers Observe in Incredible Detail a Black Hole Flickering in Our Own Galaxy
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Astronomers Observe in Incredible Detail a Black Hole Flickering in Our Own Galaxy
A black hole flickering in the Milky Way galaxy has been filmed in unprecedented detail, with a new high frame-rate technique that is helping us understand the wild dynamics of these most enigmatic objects.
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Upside-Down 'Rivers' Are Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves From Beneath
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Upside-Down 'Rivers' Are Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves From Beneath
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Upside-Down 'Rivers' Are Melting Antarctic Ice Shelves From Beneath
Antarctic ice shelves are being destabilised by hidden, upside-down 'rivers' of warm water that course below the shelves and melt them from underneath, new research shows.
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Study Spanning 40 Years Finds Odd Link Between Being a Slow Walker And Ageing Faster
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Study Spanning 40 Years Finds Odd Link Between Being a Slow Walker And Ageing Faster
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Study Spanning 40 Years Finds Odd Link Between Being a Slow Walker And Ageing Faster
Being a slow walker doesn't just signify you enjoy a leisurely stroll. According to new research, walking with a slow gait could be a symptom of significant deficits in physical and cognitive health.
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The First Peer-Reviewed Paper on Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Has Just Been Published
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The First Peer-Reviewed Paper on Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Has Just Been Published
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The First Peer-Reviewed Paper on Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Has Just Been Published
We've been hearing a lot about interstellar comet 2I/Borisov after its amazing discovery on 30 August 2019. Now the first analysis has hit peer-reviewed publication, landing a description of the comet in the prestigious pages of Nature Astronomy.
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Why Typhoon Hagibis Packed Such a Powerful, Devastating Punch in Japan
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Why Typhoon Hagibis Packed Such a Powerful, Devastating Punch in Japan
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Why Typhoon Hagibis Packed Such a Powerful, Devastating Punch in Japan
Typhoon Hagibis proved to be extraordinarily devastating for northern Japan when it struck this weekend, unleashing more than three feet of rain in just 24 hours in some locations, causing widespread flash flooding as well as river flooding. The st
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Former NASA Scientist Is 'Convinced' We've Already Found Evidence of Life on Mars
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Former NASA Scientist Is 'Convinced' We've Already Found Evidence of Life on Mars
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Scientists Create a Material That Captures CO2 And Turns It Into Organic Matter
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Scientists Create a Material That Captures CO2 And Turns It Into Organic Matter
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Scientists Create a Material That Captures CO2 And Turns It Into Organic Matter
Scientists have come up with an innovative way to try and counter the massive amounts of carbon dioxide we're still pumping into the air, even as a climate crisis unfolds around us: turning that CO2 into a useful organic polymer.
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For The First Time, Scientists Have Observed Mucus's Secret Ability to Subdue Germs
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For The First Time, Scientists Have Observed Mucus's Secret Ability to Subdue Germs
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For The First Time, Scientists Have Observed Mucus's Secret Ability to Subdue Germs
We are all full of mucus, and not only because cold season is upon us. Our bodies produce a fresh liter of slime each day to coat our passages and tracts. Mucus may be gross, but its grossness disguises how helpful it is.
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NASA Engineer Claims 'Helical Engine' Concept Could Travel 99% The Speed of Light
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NASA Engineer Claims 'Helical Engine' Concept Could Travel 99% The Speed of Light
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NASA Engineer Claims 'Helical Engine' Concept Could Reach 99% The Speed of Light
When it comes to space, there's a problem with our human drive to go all the places and see all the things. A big problem. It's, well, space. It's way too big. Even travelling at the maximum speed the Universe allows, it would take us years to reac