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Cold War Spy Photos Show How Fast Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting

By turning declassified images into a 3D model, scientists find that the mountain range's glaciers are melting twice as fast as before 2000.

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Cold War Spy Photos Show How Fast Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting

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This Robot Fish Powers Itself With Fake Blood

A new robot lionfish uses a rudimentary vasculature and "blood" to both energize itself and hydraulically power its fins.

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This Robot Fish Powers Itself With Fake Blood

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Hospitals Aren't Ready for a Mass Casualty Wildfire

With wildfires intensifying, the number of burn victims is likely to rise. But hospitals have been losing their burn treatment expertise, leaving the country unprepared.

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Hospitals Aren't Ready for a Mass Casualty Wildfire

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Weather Forecasts Will Soon Use Weird, Bendy GPS Signals

SpaceX will soon launch weather-prediction satellites that track how GPS signals bend as they travel through the atmosphere.

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Weather Forecasts Will Soon Use Weird, Bendy GPS Signals

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The Midwest's Farms Face an Intense, Crop-Killing Future

The flooding that struck the Midwest is just one way climate change is causing plants to fail, complicating life for the region's growers.

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The Midwest's Farms Face an Intense, Crop-Killing Future

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What Adam Savage Needs to Know to Fly an Iron Man Suit

In the first episode of Savage Builds, Adam Savage tries to build and control an Iron Man flying suit. But he didn't quite figure out the controls.

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What Adam Savage Needs to Know to Fly an Iron Man Suit

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The Prickly Debate on Germline Gene Therapy, and Moving It Forward

In 2016, a healthy baby boy came screaming into the world in a Mexican clinic. Harboring DNA from three parents, the baby had had his genes dramatically altered while still an embryo. Without the treatment, an inheritable neurological disorder would've killed him before the age of three. Two years later ...

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The Prickly Debate on Germline Gene Therapy, and Moving It Forward

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Inching Towards Abundant Water: New Progress in Desalination Tech

In early 2018, Cape Town, South Africa came dangerously close to being the world's first major city to run out of water. People lined up for blocks to collect spring water. Stores sold out of receptacles like buckets and bowls. Bottled water was rationed in tourist-heavy parts of the city. April 12 was ...

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Inching Towards Abundant Water: New Progress in Desalination Tech

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The Rise of AI Art?and What It Means for Human Creativity

Artificially intelligent systems are slowly taking over tasks previously done by humans, and many processes involving repetitive, simple movements have already been fully automated. In the meantime, humans continue to be superior when it comes to abstract and creative tasks. However, it seems like even ...

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The Rise of AI Art?and What It Means for Human Creativity

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The return of the wolf: Wild cubs born in the Netherlands

Authorities say wolves are officially back in the Netherlands, two centuries after the animals were hunted to extinction in the country, after a pair produced a litter in the wild. The province of Gelderland posted a video online showing three young wolves in a forest clearing. Van der Weide said Thursday ...

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The return of the wolf: Wild cubs born in the Netherlands

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Poll: Tracking asteroids a favored focus for space program

Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a poll shows. The poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released Thursday, ...

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Poll: Tracking asteroids a favored focus for space program

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Einstein's relativity document gifted to Nobel museum

The Nobel Museum in Stockholm has been gifted Albert Einstein's first paper published after he received the Nobel Prize in 1922 and discussing his then still controversial relativity theory. The paper, written in November 1922 while Einstein was attending conferences in south-east Asia, was published ...

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Einstein's relativity document gifted to Nobel museum

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Scientists find earliest clues of Parkinson's in brain

Scientists said Thursday they had found the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease in the brain years before patients show any symptoms, a discovery that could eventually lead to better screening for at-risk people. Parkinson's, a neurodegenerative disorder that causes patients movement and cognitive ...

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Scientists find earliest clues of Parkinson's in brain

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Russia to release 100 illegally captured whales

Russian officials have launched an operation to release nearly 100 illegally captured whales whose confinement in Russia's far east has become a rallying cry for environmentalists. A state TV reporter made the announcement during President Vladimir Putin's live Q&A show on Thursday, saying that by "coincidence" ...

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Russia to release 100 illegally captured whales

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In a lost city buried by jungle, scientists found these creatures thriving

There were once rumors of a mythological Ciudad Blanca, or "White City," laying hidden in the Central American jungle, overgrown with moss and trees. Then, to international intrigue, an aerial expedition found the settlement of legend in 2012 ' and later its ancient bowls, stone sculptures, ...

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In a lost city buried by jungle, scientists found these creatures thriving

Science Daily

Dangerous brain parasite 'orders in' for dinner

Researchers have discovered how toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled parasite, maintains a steady supply of nutrients while replicating inside of its host cell: it calls for delivery.

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Dangerous brain parasite 'orders in' for dinner

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Importance of climate on spruce beetle flight

If the climate continues warming as predicted, spruce beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains could become more frequent.

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Importance of climate on spruce beetle flight

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High reaction rates even without precious metals

Non-precious metal nanoparticles could one day replace expensive catalysts for hydrogen production. However, it is often difficult to determine what reaction rates they can achieve, especially when it comes to oxide particles. This is because the particles must be attached to the electrode using a binder ...

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High reaction rates even without precious metals

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Astronomers uncover first polarized radio signals from gamma-ray burst

An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion.

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Astronomers uncover first polarized radio signals from gamma-ray burst

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Early Celts in Burgundy appropriated Mediterranean products and feasting practices

Early Celts in eastern France imported Mediterranean pottery, as well as olive oil and wine, and may have appropriated Mediterranean feasting practices, according to a new study.

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Early Celts in Burgundy appropriated Mediterranean products and feasting practices

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A miniature robot that could check colons for early signs of disease

Engineers have shown it is technically possible to guide a tiny robotic capsule inside the colon to take micro-ultrasound images. Known as a Sonopill, the device could one day replace the need for patients to undergo an endoscopic examination, where a semi-rigid scope is passed into the bowel - an invasive ...

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A miniature robot that could check colons for early signs of disease

New York Times Science

This Creature Eats Stone. Sand Comes Out the Other End.

Shipworms are known for boring into wood and digesting it, but scientists found a new species with a very different diet.

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New York Times Science

This Creature Eats Stone. Sand Comes Out the Other End.

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How an Arctic Hyena Was Found in Canada, Then Lost, Then Found Again

The discovery illustrates how museum collections may be filled with forgotten fossils that could expand knowledge of prehistory.

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How an Arctic Hyena Was Found in Canada, Then Lost, Then Found Again

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Watch Soap Bubbles Turn Into Tiny Snow Globes as They Freeze

The freeze front creates an unusual liquid flow on the surface of the soap bubbles, new research suggests.

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Watch Soap Bubbles Turn Into Tiny Snow Globes as They Freeze

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Cuttlefish Arms Are Not So Different From Yours

Cephalopods, flies and even humans share genes needed to develop limbs, perhaps provided by a common ancestor.

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New York Times Science

Cuttlefish Arms Are Not So Different From Yours

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Those Puppy Dog Eyes You Can't Resist? Thank Evolution

Dogs have a muscle that lets them make a face to melt a human's heart.

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Those Puppy Dog Eyes You Can't Resist? Thank Evolution

New York Times Science

Grow Faster, Grow Stronger: Speed-Breeding Crops to Feed the Future

Plant breeders are fast-tracking genetic improvements in food crops to keep pace with global warming and a growing human population.

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Grow Faster, Grow Stronger: Speed-Breeding Crops to Feed the Future

National Science Foundation

California Institute of Technology Commencement

More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/speeches/cordova/19/fc190614_caltechcommencement.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item.

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California Institute of Technology Commencement