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A New York Museum research team discovered a "ghost" bird that hadn't been seen in half a century in the remote highlands of Solomon Islands’ Guadalcanal. Then they killed the bird to collect as a specimen for additional study.
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New Delhi -
India's former president and top scientist A. P. J. Kalam, who played a lead role in the country's nuclear weapons tests, died on Monday, a hospital official said. He was 83.
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Sydney -
On Tuesday, a scientist leading efforts in Australia to find signals from alien life on other planets said people should think twice before replying.
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Dinosaurs grew quickly and were warm-blooded just like modern mammals, says a scientist who researched the metabolism of these ancient creatures.
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John Nash, the Nobel prize winning mathematician, whose life inspired the best-selling biographical book and Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mind," has died in a car accident, together with his wife, on Saturday.
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Scientists have created a new battery that is capable of fully charging a smartphone in just one minute. Made of aluminium, it could replace today's lithium models in the future and is billed as being much safer too.
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Naturalist Sy Montgomery took some time from her busy schedule to talk about her book "The Tarantula Scientist" and her career in writing.
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A scientist has created a microscope out of mostly paper that will cost less than a dollar -- far less than the several hundred dollars most reasonable ones would cost. It will magnify objects 2,100 times and can help in fighting serious diseases.
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Australian scientists uncover a lake that has not been affected by climate changes or any man made influences. It has maintained its same water state for the past 7,500 years.
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A California surgeon called Rongxiang Xu is suing the Nobel Committee for failing to recognize him in 2012 for his work on regenerative medicine.
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Hua Jun Zhao, a researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin, has been accused of stealing three vials of a development cancer drug with a view to sending the drugs and associated research data to China.
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In an interview with Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, the French scientist who ran lifetime tests on GM maize and Roundup on rats, Séralini says the US should label GMOs and that Roundup should be banned.
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An Italian scientist has come out with his own theory behind homosexuality, pinning it down to the usage of vaccinations.
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Philadelphia -
Melissa Ketunuti, a researcher into infectious diseases in children, was strangled, bound, and set ablaze in the basement of her home in Center City, Philadelphia.
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Durham -
When a scientist discovered a new genus of ferns, which is described as having a “somewhat fluid definitions of gender", she decided to name her new discovery "Gaga".
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A new study conducted on a dead elephant has demonstrated to researchers that elephants sing in the same way that humans do. The vocal sound is so low that it is inaudible to humans, but it is, nonetheless there.
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Moscow -
In the wake of the recent popular movie "Avatar", Russian scientists now have plans to transplant people's brains into robots.
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Tel Aviv -
Two escort girls and their male partners have been arrested for allegedly taking part in the murder and robbery in Tel Aviv of 70-year-old Dr. Eli Lazuz, a French chemistry expert.
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With Iranian nuclear talks set to begin in early December, Iran's nuclear program was set back with computer viruses and a successful assassination of an Iranian scientist.
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Santa Clara -
A senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in Mountain View said that proof of alien civilizations could happen within the next 25 years, which he bases on the Drake Equation.
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Reading -
A young British scientist stakes a claim to being the first human infected with a computer virus after he contaminated an electronic RFID chip implanted in his hand.
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The scientist many view as responsible for first persuading the world that it was in danger from global warming has said that he hopes there is failure at the UN Climate Change Conference, which begins next week in Copenhagen.
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French officials have arrested a physicist who works at the facility that houses the world's largest particle collider. He is suspected of having al-Qaeda links.
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A scientist predicted the earthquake in Italy several days ago but was rebuked by the government officials, who called it “scaremongering”. The quake has killed at least 90 people and left 50,000 homeless.
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In nine days the Large Hadron Collider will be switched on. Some scientists fear that will be the end of the world. They believe that the world's biggest experiment will create a black hole and swallow the Earth.
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Researchers from Europe have found a batch of "Super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star along with two other solar systems containing small planets.
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American scientists have proved they are green fingered as well as expert in the scientific world by introducing the world's first "super carrot," guaranteed to provide huge amounts of calcium
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The UK government recently announced its commitment to improved radiotherapy methods as a means to promote the fight against cancer. The move was welcomed by medics, but scientists claim the government still does not support the newest technology.
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Now there's another reason to kick back a couple of beers a day. Scientists say that drinking beer helps make you clever. According to a study by the University of Auckland, New Zealand on rats proved the adage booze makes you clever.
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Scientists have revealed what it's like when faced with the different types of death based on accounts from lucky survivors and medical advancements in the field. Most die because of lack of oxygen to the brain.
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Jennifer Anne Doudna a Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California. Dr. Jennifer Doudna
Purdue University scientist looking at the Zika virus structure, revealed in 2016. Purdue University
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