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It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon
Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.A thorough...
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Vision can predict dementia 12 years before diagnosis, study finds
The eyes can reveal a lot about the health of our brain. Indeed, problems with the...
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Blinking Boosts Your Vision, and We Never Even Noticed
Blinking: it happens every few seconds without you even thinking – unless of course, you're engaging...
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'Hottest Ever' March Is 10th Month in a Row to Shatter Heat Records
Europe's climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight...
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Korean Fusion Reactor Sets New Record for Sustaining 100M Degree Plasma
Upgrades to Korea's 'artificial Sun' fusion reactor have produced another record-breaking result, with new components able...
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Plants Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard It Until Now
It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a...
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Younger Generations Have Larger Brains. Is That Healthier?
The size of the human brain may be gradually increasing over time, and that could reduce...
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Hypothesis That Universe Has No Dark Matter and Is 27B Years Old
Sound waves fossilized in the maps of galaxies across the Universe could be interpreted as signs...
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Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed from 10M Miles Away in NASA Test
Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA...
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Scientists Discovered a 'Fear Switch' in the Brain, and How to Turn It Off
The hair rising on the back of your neck, the gelid pool in the pit of...
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Giant DNA Study Reveals Where India's People Originally Came From
The most populous country in the world, India, has long been left out of genetic studies,...
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Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries
Plastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in several major organs of the human body,...
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New 'Water Batteries' Are Cheaper, Recyclable, and Won't Explode
Water and electronics don't usually mix, but as it turns out, batteries could benefit from some...
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Alzheimer's Might Not Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals
The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest...
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Scientists Confirm the World Now Has over 1B Obese People
More than one billion people around the world are now suffering from obesity with the number...
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Clouds Vanish During a Solar Eclipse, and We Know Why
When the Moon passes in front of the Sun in a solar eclipse, the jaw-dropping spectacle...
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Mysterious New Form of Magnetism Confirmed
There was a time when there was only one game of ferromagnetism in town. Want to...
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NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in the Kuiper Belt
There may be a lot more than we thought to the belt of icy debris that...
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Scientists Developed a Tool to Reveal Who's at Risk of Burnout, and It's Free
Ask someone how they are in today's increasingly hectic world, you'll often get a reply with...
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A mysterious wave-like structure in our galaxy found to be slowly slithering
Gazing out upon the apparently unchanging sea of stars around us, it's tempting to think of...
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The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Reveals Key Differences
Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the...
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We Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years
The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts....