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Nobel prize winner Svante Paabo's DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of…
PTI
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IIT Guwahati researchers find important clues to understand why stars die
"The study of supernovae and the particles they release helps us understand the universe bec…
PTI
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There might be a secret massive black hole in our galaxy that scientists didn’t know about till now!
We have found evidence for the second-biggest black hole in our Milky Way, challenging our understa…
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A baby boomer from Baltimore moved to Germany 19 years ago and plans to retire there. He says free healthcare and quality of life are better than in the US.
Jeffrey Park, 63, has worked in Germany since 2005 and plans to retire there. He prefers the healt…
John Towfighi
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You don't have to live in a Blue Zone to reach 100. These 4 things will maximize your chances, according to a lifespan expert.
Even though your lifespan is mostly decided by chance, there are lifestyle changes you can make to …
Serafina Kenny
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Humans and Neanderthals only had sex for a brief period, but it still fundamentally changed our DNA
Scientists studied ancient humans and learned humans and Neanderthals started interbreeding 47,000 …
Jenny McGrath
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Atomic oxygen found sandwiched between layers of sulphurous clouds On Venus
Researchers found that the temperature of atomic oxygen on Venus ranged from –120°C on the day side…
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal tiny flares shooting from a 'hole' in the sun. They could explain how the sun blasts Earth with charged particles.
Solar Orbiter's discovery of these jets, called "picoflares," could solve the mystery of how the su…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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I get paid to play with dogs and figure out how they communicate. Here are the qualifications I needed and the challenges of working in a niche field.
Scientific researcher Dr. Juliane Bräuer runs the DogStudies lab in Jena, Germany where she designs…
Ralph Jones
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James Webb telescope detects an asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum, between 300 and 650 feet, or 100 and 200 metres, …
PTI
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The source of the Black Death plague is finally pinpointed by scientists, new study says
The Black Death first originated in Kyrgyzstan, in central Asia, in the late 1330s, spreading rapid…
Joshua Zitser
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As Earth's climate got wetter, ancient humans were able to migrate more widely, a new scientific model suggests
A research team simulated Earth's climate history 2 million years ago. Their work suggests human ex…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi win Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in climate, complex physical systems
Manabe from Princeton University, US and Hasselmann from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,…
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A 3,000-year-old skeleton with almost 800 injuries turns out to be the oldest shark attack victim ever found
The ancient skeleton found in southern Japan was believed to be a fisherman who was possibly savage…
Sophia Ankel
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Legendary mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson has died at the age of 96
Dyson worked on a diverse range of physics and mathematical problems: nuclear reactors, solid-state…
Bani Sapra
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are strikingly similar to the sun and Earth
Scientists discovered an Earth-like, potentially habitable planet about 3,000 light-years away. Its…
Holly Secon
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Air pollution ups COVID-19 deaths by 15% worldwide, claims study
According to the study, published in the journal Cardiovascular Research, in Europe the proporti…