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New galaxy 'most distant' yet discovered
An international team of astronomers has detected the most distant galaxy yet. The galaxy is about 30 billion light-years away and is helping scientists shed light on the period that immediately followed the Big Bang.
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Researchers discover new bomb-detecting radar method inspired by dolphins
Researchers have discovered a new radar technique that could be used to find an improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a pile of trash on the road, and the finding was inspired from an unlikely source: dolphins. The technology could also be used to find buried earthquake victims, animals marked with tags, or tiny surveillance devices hidden in walls.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mural Discovered Under Layers Of Paint During Sforza Castle Restoration In Italy
Restorers working on renovations for the Sforza Castle in Italy got quite a shock this week when they peeled away several coats of paint to reveal part of a Leonardo Da Vinci mural. Buried beneath 17 layers of whitewash, the portion of the drawing -- which depicts a tree root stuck in a rock -- has likely been hidden from view for at least 500 years.
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Australia’s Oldest Bird Footprints Are 100-Million-Years-Old
A recent discovery in Australia proves that there were birds living alongside other kinds of dinosaurs on the continent 100 million years ago. Australia’s oldest bird footprints, from the Early Cretaceous period, were found in a slab of rock recovered from the cliffs of Dinosaur Cove, a fossil-rich area on the coast of southern Victoria near Melbourne. The finding of the ancient bird tracks helps paleontologists better understand Australia’s prehistoric timeline.
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Biologists Discover Tiny Neural Computers in the Brain
Neuroscientists have learned that dendrites do more than just provide passive wiring in the brain. These nerve cell connectors also process information, essentially functioning as tiny computers. Our brains, it would appear, pack more computing power than we assumed.
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New-found Earth-sized Exoplanet Doomed
Astronomers announced this week that they have spotted a rocky Earth-size planet beyond our solar system, the smallest alien world accurately sized by observers to date. However, the super-hot planet is no second Earth, and according to theories, the distant world some 700 light-years away from Earth shouldn’t exist.
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Even in the dark, brain “sees” its own body’s movement
With the help of computerized eye trackers, new research finds that at least 50 percent of people can see the movement of their own hand even in the absence of all light.
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Newfound "King of Gore" Dinosaur Ruled Before T. Rex
A newly discovered "King of Gore" tyrannosaur pushes back the origins of T. rex's terrifying family tree to at least 80 million years ago, report paleontologists.
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Exotic Fruit Fly Three in One Insect
Every so often nature provides something that is stunning in its simplicity. It can also amaze with an almost perfect replication of reality. There is an exotic fruit fly called “Goniurellia tridens” which has been referred to as a 3-in-1 insect. This fruit fly has relied on some pretty spectacular wing art to protect itself from predators.
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Quantum Experiment Shows How Time ‘Emerges’ from Entanglement
Time is an emergent phenomenon that is a side effect of quantum entanglement, say physicists. And they have the first experimental results to prove it
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World's oldest creature was 507...but scientists killed it
When scientists inadvertently killed what turned out to be the world’s oldest living creature, it was bad enough. Now, their mistake has been compounded after further research found it was even older – at 507 years.
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Astronomers Discover Largest Structure in the Universe
What’s the largest structure in the Universe? That’s a question that has intrigued scientists for centuries. Today, they…
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10,000-year-old house among amazing finds unearthed in Israel
Archaeologists say they've uncovered some stunning finds while digging at a construction site in Israel, including stone axes, a "cultic" temple and traces of a 10,000-year-old house.
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Cancer meets its nemesis in reprogrammed blood cells
Engineer immune cells to recognise tumour cells they would otherwise overlook and they call a halt to cancers we thought were incurable
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New photonic molecules are not unlike lightsabers
Scientists from Harvard and MIT have jointly demonstrated that, in specific conditions, photons can be made to interact with each other and form molecules. Such groupings of photons, dubbed “Photonic molecules”, constitute an entirely new form of matter, which until recently was purely theoretical. Combining the properties of light and those of solids, in terms of physics this new form of matter is not unlike a certain material that millions of Star Wars fans are already well familiar with..
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Baby dinosaur skeleton found intact in Alberta
An extremely well-preserved baby dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.
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Small Black Holes Are Deadlier Than Previously Thought
There’s a black hole in a galaxy 22 million light-years away that’s incredibly bright and energetic. Astronomers naturally assumed it was a supermassive black hole. But new observations show it’s actually quite tiny — throwing many conceptions of what we thought we knew about these things completely out the window.
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Stealth camera takes pictures virtually in the dark
Computing technique reconstructs 3D images from single photons reflected from dimly lit object.
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Mushrooms Create Their Own Breeze
Mushrooms must scatter their spores to make little mushrooms. And we've long assumed that they rely on a friendly breeze for spore spreading. But a new study shows that mushrooms can create their own spore-casting wind.
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Water-repellant surface so efficient that drops bounce back off
Ridges and asymmetric repulsion appear to be key.
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