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The world's largest radio telescope began operating in southwestern China Sunday, a project Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.
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The eyes of the world are focused on the increasingly tight tussle to succeed President Obama to the White House. While key issues have been debated, what do the major party candidates have to say about key science topics?
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A smog outbreak in Southeast Asia last year may have caused over 100,000 premature deaths, according to a new study released Monday that triggered calls for action to tackle the "killer haze".
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The Gaia space probe, launched in 2013, has mapped more than a billion stars in the Milky Way, vastly expanding the inventory of known stars in our galaxy, the European Space Agency said Wednesday.
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The giant panda may have been taken off the endangered species list, but the emblematic black and white bear still faces a plethora of risks including epidemics and climate change, Chinese breeding centres say.
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There is no easy explanation for why some people commit crimes and others don't.
Similarly, there's no easy answer to the question of why some people end up in jails and prisons while others do not.
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By AFP
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Days after Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong died 40 years ago the problem of what to do with his corpse was becoming increasingly heated -- literally.
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An American scientist has named a new species of parasite he recently discovered after United States President Barack Obama.
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US scientists have discovered a new species of a parasitic flatworm that infects turtles in Malaysia, and named it after Barack Obama as a way of honoring the US president.
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By AFP
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Scientific techniques that can wipe out invasive species or alter mosquitoes' ability to carry disease are pushing ahead, raising concerns about the ethics of permanently changing the natural world, experts say.
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NASA has set a new schedule for the launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to Mars.
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Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has finally spotted the tiny lander Philae stuck in a dark crack on the surface of its comet home -- the first glimpse since the robot lab crashlanded in 2014, ground controllers said Monday.
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NASA published the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole and its southern aurora, taken during the Juno spacecraft's first orbital flyby of the gaseous giant.
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The Nobel Prize-winning head of Europe's biggest biomedical research centre in London said that Britain's vote to leave the EU is worrying his European employees and will hit "extremely important" funding.
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Life on Earth is even older than we thought, Australian scientists said Thursday as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
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Life on Earth is even older than we thought, Australian scientists said Thursday as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
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By AFP
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Life on Earth is even older than we thought, Australian scientists said Thursday as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
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The world's first driverless taxis went into operation on Thursday in Singapore in a limited public trial, beating giants like Uber in the race to roll out the revolutionary technology.
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Bradley Crehan was hit by a car after walking out of a bar in Santa Monica, California, last February.
The 25-year-old's head slammed to the ground, causing a severe brain injury.
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Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest our Sun, opening up the glittering prospect of a habitable world that may one day be explored by robots.
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The deadly earthquake that struck central Italy before dawn Wednesday occurred in a notorious seismic hotspot, and dangerous aftershocks are possible, scientists said.
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At the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, some of the fastest and strongest people in the world showed us what humans in peak physical condition can accomplish.
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A group in Japan is launching a test involving airborne delivery of medicines as part of the plan to make drones play a crucial role during disasters.
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The 5,300-year-old Alpine mummy known as the Tyrolean Iceman died wearing leather clothes and accessories harvested from no less than five wild or domesticated species, a DNA analysis published Thursday revealed.
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China launched the world's first quantum satellite on Tuesday, state media reported, in an effort to harness the power of particle physics to build an "unhackable" system of encrypted communications.
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Jeff Steinhauer, a physicist at Technion University in Israel, has created an acoustic black hole and observed particles slipping out of its grasp, providing the strongest evidence to date of one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions.
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Greenland sharks are the Earth's longest-lived vertebrates -- or creatures with a spine -- with a lifespan that can last as long as 400 years, international researchers said.
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Nobel prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail was given a state funeral with military honours on Sunday in Cairo attended by Egypt's president and top officials.
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The world's top land carnivores such as tigers, lions and jaguars are coming under threat as their prey dwindles in number, according to the first global study of feeding patterns.
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For as long as athletes have been battling for gold medals, they have been taking fortifying tonics -- some stomach-churning, others downright dangerous -- with little concern for their health.
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A chart showing the massive plunge recorded around the time the shark vanished. Smithsonian YouTube
An example of some nano-sized molecular machinery made with 3D models. NASA via Wikimedia Commons
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Krypton gas is beautiful but also quite dangerous under certain circumstances. Jurii
File photo: Scientist at work in Dr Sandle's laboratory
This chart shows the reality of believing and not believing in our Lord and Savior.
How NASA assets will observe Comet Siding Spring NASA
Museum of Science and Industry
Photo credit: Joe Ziolkowski The Museum of Science an Industry
With new planets being discovered constantly life could show up when we least expect it. Unmismoobjetivo
An impressive look at the jawline of a crocodile. Raul654
Ebola particles are quite scary up close, but you should not buy into the fear right away. NIAID
Mount Canlaon or the Kanlaon Volcano. Studphil
Center Milky Way Galaxy Forest Glades I wander, on Flick'r
Cannabis oil comes in a variety of forms which deliver different levels of the drug to those who ingest it. SgoG
The difference between science and religion DamnedIfGodExists
The South Kensington Science Museum actually has an example of a genome sequence on display. As you can see there is a huge amount of information in the genetic structure of each living being. Some believe this may hold the key to fighting aging. George Gastin
Looking for an idea to include the kids in the gardening fun or a project to keep them occupied for the summer. Check back for step by step instructions on how to grow square watermelon for just a few dollars. Watermelons
In the anti-laser, incoming light waves are trapped in a cavity where they bounce back and forth until they are eventually absorbed. Their energy is dissipated as heat. Photo courtesy of Yale / Yidong Chong
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