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Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

DJ Earth Scientists have discovered a heartbeat-like pulse emanating from inside the Earth beneath the continent of Africa, which they believe will one day rip the continent into pieces. In a new study published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of European and African scientists explain ...

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Scientists Detect Deep, Rhythmic Pulse Coming From Inside the Earth

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Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

The Good Stuff Wondering whether snorting Moon dust will kill you? Don't worry: science is on it. A recent study conducted by a team of Australian researchers and published in the journal Life Sciences in Space Research found that lunar dust is probably way less dangerous than space science previously ...

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Scientists Investigate What Happens If You Snort Moon Dust

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Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

More on DNA: You Can Now Buy a Sample of Ozzy Osbourne's DNA in Twelve Easy Payments

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Scientists Playing God are Building Human DNA From the Ground Up

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Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

Glow Up Scientists have some exciting news: your brain is likely glowing, whether you can see it or not. The news comes from researchers at the Algoma University in Ontario, who found evidence that the human brain, of all things, posses bioluminescent properties. Essentially, they found that as the ...

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Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

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Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

If you vape — and especially if it's because you think it's a less harmful alternative to smoking — then we have some really bad news. New research from the University of California, Davis, shows that popular disposable vapes contain levels of toxic metals so appalling that they exceed traditional ...

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Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

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Scientists Genetically Engineer Tobacco Plants to Pump Out a Popular Cancer Drug

Newly discovered genes could make powerful drug, Taxol, cheaper and more sustainable to produce. The post Scientists Genetically Engineer Tobacco Plants to Pump Out a Popular Cancer Drug appeared first on SingularityHub.

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Scientists Genetically Engineer Tobacco Plants to Pump Out a Popular Cancer Drug

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A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Suggests

Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. But a new paper suggests it might be more a product of our environment.

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A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Suggests

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Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.

Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an effective treatment that is being more widely prescribed.

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Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.

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Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

When you die, your memories die with you — never to be experienced again, but will that be the case for the rest of human history? In an exercise to assess scientific consensus, a cohort of 312 neuroscientists were quizzed by researchers on whether memories lives on in the structure of deceased brains, ...

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Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

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Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur

Funky Dino More on dinosaurs: Project Says It's Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?

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Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur

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"Truly Psychopathic": Concern Grows Over "Therapist" Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness

Mental health professionals have started looking into supposed "AI therapists" — and what they've found has left them unsettled. In an interview with Washington, DC's WJLA, psychiatrist Andrew Clark described his shock at discovering just how harmful therapy-themed chatbots can be. As Clark told Time ...

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"Truly Psychopathic": Concern Grows Over "Therapist" Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness

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Leading AI Companies Struggling to Make Their AI Stop Blackmailing People Who Threaten to Shut Them Down

The industry's leading AI models will resort to blackmail at an astonishing rate when forced to choose between being shut down or taking extreme action, according to an alarming new report from researchers at the AI startup Anthropic. The work, published last week, illustrates the industry's struggles ...

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Leading AI Companies Struggling to Make Their AI Stop Blackmailing People Who Threaten to Shut Them Down