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5 years ago+6 6 0India’s Going to the Moon, and the Country Is Pumped
India will launch an unmanned rover into space on Monday. If successful, India will join a select group of nations capable of reaching the moon.
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5 years ago+4 4 0Insect apocalypse: German bug watchers sound alarm
For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions of bugs and creepy crawlers.
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5 years ago+24 24 0Working Even a Few Hours a Week Boosts Mental and Emotional Health
An innovative new study suggests that the benefits of employment should be shared widely, even in a future where jobs are scarce.
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5 years ago+43 43 0 x 1More than half of the world's population is now online
But mixed feelings about the internet persist, according to Mary Meeker's latest annual report.
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5 years ago+12 12 0'Pumping heart patch' ready for human use
It is packed with millions of living cells to mend damage after a heart attack, say researchers.
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5 years ago+6 6 0Music helps to build the brains of very premature babies
Summary: Music specially composed for preterm babies helps strengthen the development of neural networks and may help to limit neurodevelopmental delays often experienced by those born prematurely.
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5 years ago+3 3 0Koalas are officially ‘functionally extinct’ and may be wiped out ‘within a generation’
KOALAS, we all love them. Show me someone who doesn’t want what’s best for a humble little koala and I’ll show you a liar. Despite this being the case, their numbers are declining and their future as a species looks to be in serious jeopardy.
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5 years ago+28 28 0Japanese railway company starts testing 249mph bullet train speeds
This week, Japanese railway company JR East showed off its new Alfa-X, a high-speed bullet train that is designed to achieve a top speed of 400kph, or 249mph, which would make it the fastest commercial train in the world. In day-to-day operations, th ...
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5 years ago+5 5 0Teens avoid finding sexual health information online due to fear of 'being seen'
The internet contains a wealth of sexual health information, but it seems that teens are avoiding finding it there, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the University of Glasgow have revealed that many teens are avoiding sexual health informat ...
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5 years ago+9 9 0Bosch teams up with PowerCell to bring down the cost of fuel cells
On Monday, automotive parts supplier Bosch announced that it would be partnering with a company called PowerCell to manufacture fuel cells for commercial and passenger vehicles. Currently, there's not a huge market for hydrogen fuel cells, but a ...
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5 years ago+1 2 1Create the fantasy map of your dreams with Wonderdraft
Back in 2015, the black hole V404 Cygni got the attention of astronomers all over the globe when it suddenly brightened for two weeks. The outburst happened as the black hole began gobbling up material from a star that orbits it once every six days. ...
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5 years ago+4 4 05 mind-boggling Moon mysteries that science cannot explain
With a diameter of about 3,476 kilometers the Moon is a quarter the size of Earth, all other moons in our solar system orbit their planets around the equator, our moon does not, and there are lunar rocks that have been found to contain PROCESSED META ...
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5 years ago+14 14 0Facebook waited until the Mueller report dropped to tell us millions of Instagram passwords were exposed
Given the terrible run of form it’s been on over the last year, it probably shouldn’t be that surprising that Facebook waited until the highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election to deliver some bad news. W ...
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5 years ago+22 22 0Notre-Dame blaze leaves France in mourning – but over $1-billion in donations raise hope
As people across France struggled with the pain of the devastation to Notre-Dame cathedral, more than $1-billion in donations has poured in from around the world to help rebuild the cultural landmark. French President Emmanuel Macron promised to rest ...
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5 years ago+26 26 0The sorrows of psychiatry
In January 1973, Science published an article called ‘On being sane in insane places’. The author, psychologist David Rosenhan, described how he and seven other healthy people had reported themselves to a dozen psychiatric hospitals, claiming to hear ...
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5 years ago+5 5 0It'll be a while before Westworld and Curb return to post-Game Of Thrones HBO
We’re now facing a matter of weeks before Game Of Thrones ends its run on HBO (at least until the prequel series kicks off), but it’s going to be a long time before most of HBO’s other big shows come along to fill the Game Of Thrones-sized hole in th ...
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5 years ago+17 17 0White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It's Time to Reclaim the Real History
After New Zealand passed new gun laws this week, most automatic and semi-automatic weapons have become outlawed there as of Friday — a swift response to the March 15 shootings in Christchurch that left 50 Muslim men, women and children dead at the ha ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Astronomers Worldwide Are About to Make a Groundbreaking Black Hole Announcement
The European Southern Observatory has just revealed there will be a huge announcement next week. Yes, we know how that sounds - but as far as we can tell, it appears the world is about to finally see the first ever photo of a black hole's event ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0187-Year-Old Jonathan the Tortoise of St. Helena Is the World’s Oldest Land Animal
If you ever have the chance to visit St. Helena—a volcanic island situated remotely in the South Atlantic Ocean—make sure to drop by Plantation House to catch a glimpse of the 187-year-old Jonathan, said to be the oldest land animal now living on Ear ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Majestic predators stage a comeback in Russia's Far East
Deep in the frozen forests of Russia's far east, one of nature's most elusive — and surely most majestic — predators has been staging a quiet comeback. Siberia's tigers, also known as Amur tigers, are the largest subspecies of the grea ...