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New Zealand Volcano Erupts, Killing at Least 5
A volcano erupted violently on a New Zealand island today local time, sending ash up to 12,000 feet (3,700 meters)…
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Europe Is Launching a Suicide Robot to ‘Hug’ Space Trash Out of Orbit
The largest garbage dump on Earth might be in space. In low Earth orbit — the space around our planet…
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First Pig-Monkey Chimeras Were Just Created in China
Two piglets recently born in China look like average swine on the outside, but on the inside, they are (a…
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Albert Einstein: The Life of a Brilliant Physicist
Albert Einstein was a German-American physicist and probably the most well-known scientist of the 20th century. His theory of relativity, which…
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Health
Can Gene Therapy Cure HIV? US Gov’t. Is Banking $100 Million On It.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants to cure HIV and sickle cell disease with gene therapies, and will…
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Doctors Are Trying to Use CRISPR to Fight Cancer. The 1st Trial Suggests It’s Safe.
In the first clinical trial of its kind, researchers used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to fine-tune the DNA of people’s immune cells, in hopes…
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Navy Officers Say ‘Unknown Individuals’ Made Them Erase Evidence of 2004 UFO Encounter
Several Navy officers who witnessed the now-famous Nimitz UFO encounter in 2004 say “unknown individuals” showed up after the event…
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A Blue Whale Had His Heartbeat Taken for the First Time Ever — And Scientists Are Shocked
When the largest animals on Earth grab a snack, their hearts skip a beat — or sometimes 30. That’s what a team…
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Google’s Quantum Computer Just Aced an ‘Impossible’ Test
Google just took a quantum leap in computer science. Using the company’s state-of-the-art quantum computer, called Sycamore, Google has claimed…
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Environment
There’s a Lost Continent Hiding Beneath Europe
There’s a lost continent hidden below southern Europe. And researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of it yet. The…
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