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Space

Last fall the shoe-box-sized Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS), onboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx,...

03 Mar 2020

Student-Built Instrument Onboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx Detects Newly Flaring Black Hole

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Plants and Animals

Chattanooga Zoo has three newly hatched Komodo dragons, who turn out to be the product of parthenoge...

03 Mar 2020

Zoo Discovers its New Baby Komodo Dragons Were Born Without Male Involvement

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Health and Medicine

Every PFAS analyzed displayed at least one characteristic of other carcinogenic chemicals, despite d...

03 Mar 2020

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Chemicals Commonly Used In Food Packaging And Household Products Have Cancer-Causing Properties

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Health and Medicine

In 2015 alone, air pollution caused an extra 8.8 million premature deaths....

03 Mar 2020

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Air Pollution “Pandemic” Causes Nearly 9 Million Premature Deaths Annually, Study Finds

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Health and Medicine

Four months after the 2016 US election, the proportion of boys born in Ontario fell, particularly in...

02 Mar 2020

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The 2016 US Election May Have Changed Birth Sex Ratios In Canada

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Editor's Blog

In a video posted online, several people are seen diving into the pool who shortly after began choki...

02 Mar 2020

Three People Reportedly Die After Dry Ice Dumped Into Pool During Birthday Party

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Health and Medicine

In the same speech, Trump told viewers that he suspended the entry of foreign nationals trying to en...

02 Mar 2020

Trump Accuses Democrats Of Politicizing Coronavirus, Calls It Their “New Hoax”

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Plants and Animals

Swamp wallabies are only the second mammal we have discovered that can have two pregnancies at diffe...

02 Mar 2020

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Swamp Wallabies Can Get Pregnant, Even When They Are Already Pregnant

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Physics

However, a team of researchers at Northeastern University, Boston, may have accidentally stumbled up...

02 Mar 2020

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Physicists Accidentally Discover A New State Of Matter That Could Change Modern Technology

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Technology

All 68 billion possible 12-note melodies that can be written using one octave are now in the public ...

02 Mar 2020

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An Algorithm Has Created Every Possible Musical Melody So No One Can Ever Sue For Copyright Infringement

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Space

The magnetic field properties of the halo have been measured with pulsars...

02 Mar 2020

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Pulsars Were Used To Study The Magnetic Field Of The Milky Way Like Never Before

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Space

The Earthshine during a total lunar eclipse was used to work out what alien astronomers might learn ...

02 Mar 2020

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How A Total Lunar Eclipse Gave Astronomers A Chance To View Earth Like A Transiting Planet