Tag: Science
over 4 years ago
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Samsung’s ‘space selfie’ balloon crash-lands on Michigan farm

"911 is baffled."

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over 4 years ago
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The new growth in hair loss research

With increasing evidence of its impact on mental health, scientists are pushing forward with breakthroughs on balding

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almost 5 years ago
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Lyme disease: is a solution on the way?

The tick-borne illness, which is on the rise, can have chronic side-effects

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almost 5 years ago
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Missing American scientist Suzanne Eaton found dead in abandoned WWII bunker in Greece

An American scientist, Suzanne Eaton, has been found dead in Greece, nearly a week after she went missing in Crete.

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almost 5 years ago
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American scientist vanishes on Greek island of Crete

An American scientist has disappeared on the Greek island of Crete.

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almost 5 years ago
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The race to replace Viagra

As the last patents on the erectile dysfunction drug run out, interest in finding new treatments has been renewed

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about 5 years ago
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Gene mutation in woman who feels no pain offers hope for future pain treatment

A woman in Scotland feels virtually no pain or stress thanks to a mutation in a previously unknown gene, according to...

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about 5 years ago
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Apple Watch EKG features now available in Europe with watchOS 5.2 update

Apple is bringing its Watch EKG features to Europe and Hong Kong today. watchOS 5.2 enables the features that were pr...

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about 5 years ago
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Ketamine: can it really be an antidepressant?

A version of the club drug licensed in the US could see a new wave of fast-acting treatments

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over 5 years ago
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SpaceX moon tourist scores most retweeted tweet ever with promise of free money

The Wendy’s nuggets guy’s reign is over.

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over 5 years ago
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China orders inquiry into 'world's first gene-edited babies'

As experts cast doubt over supposed breakthrough, China’s National Health Commission orders an ‘immediate investigation’

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over 5 years ago
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Tesla said to seek number 2 exec as Musk’s behavior angers board

Elon denies it

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almost 6 years ago
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Microsoft Healthcare is a new effort to push doctors to the cloud

Microsoft wants to be a big part of the cloud and AI healthcare race

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almost 6 years ago
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China aims to land on far side of moon via launch of 'Magpie Bridge' satellite

Relay station will eventually let teams on the ground talk to a lunar probe that China plans to launch this year in w...

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about 6 years ago
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Tiangong-1 crash: Chinese space station comes down in Pacific Ocean

Tributes on Weibo as officials say craft, which had been out of control since 2016, mostly burnt up on re-entry

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about 6 years ago
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Pioneering physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76

Stephen Hawking, perhaps the world’s best known scientist, has died, a spokesperson for his family has confirmed. He ...

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almost 7 years ago
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Cortana’s new Fitbit skill lets you log fitness progress with your voice

Microsoft launched a set of skills for Cortana at its Build developers conference earlier this year, and today it’s a...

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over 7 years ago
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Japanese mission to clear up space junk ends in failure

Japan’s space agency, JAXA, has confirmed the failure of a mission intended to test technology for clearing up debris...

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over 7 years ago
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Some of the best projects from the BT Young Scientist Exhibition

There are a record 2,091 project entries and 550 projects being put on show at the RDS in Dublin by more than 1,000 s...

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almost 8 years ago
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This is Juno's first image of Jupiter from orbit

NASA's Juno spacecraft is in orbit around Jupiter, and there's good news — the onboard JunoCam camera is operational ...

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almost 8 years ago
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Bearcam is back and better than ever

There is pretty much no better way to spend your time on the internet than watching live footage of bears chilling in...

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almost 8 years ago
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Theranos throws out all Edison blood test results from 2014 and 2015

Theranos has voided two years of results from its Edison blood-testing machines, issuing tens of thousands of correct...

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about 8 years ago
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There’s an astronaut in a gorilla suit floating around the ISS

Getting cargo to the International Space Station is expensive and difficult — that's a huge part of why there's been ...

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over 8 years ago
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Watch SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket land, tip over, and explode

SpaceX's latest attempt to land its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a ship in the ocean failed again tonight, but it was ...

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over 8 years ago
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Meet the Japanese robots that do what humans can't

Dancing and disasters at the world's biggest robot show

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over 8 years ago
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Stare into this 4K video of the Sun for half an hour

There's not a ton to say about this amazing video of the Sun that NASA released this week. It was created from images...

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over 8 years ago
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You can buy the rights to name this new moth species on eBay

Although this isn't an official Verge Review of Animals, I feel compelled to say that moths are terrible creatures — ...

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over 8 years ago
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Bears can be somewhat annoyed by drones

We all know that drones can be annoying if you're a pilot, a national park visitor, or the Japanese prime minister. B...

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about 9 years ago
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SpaceX’s near-miss barge landing is even more dramatic in this alleged GoPro footage

Tuesday saw SpaceX come agonizingly close to landing its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a barge at sea, and the released...

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over 9 years ago
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Watch the launch of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft

NASA is planning to launch an uncrewed test flight of its new Orion spacecraft today. The test flight will commence w...

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almost 10 years ago
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Dreams of rescuing a retired NASA probe come to an end

Efforts to resurrect the vintage ISEE-3 space probe have ended in disappointment. The probe was launched by NASA in 1...

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almost 10 years ago
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Facebook offers explanation for controversial News Feed psychology experiment

Facebook caused a stir over the weekend with the revelation that it had been altering the content of some users' News...

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almost 10 years ago
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Heinz and Ford want to turn leftover ketchup into car parts

Heinz and Ford are teaming up to investigate repurposing leftover tomatoes to make car parts. While cars won’t techni...

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almost 10 years ago
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Giant 17-million-year-old sperm discovered

Scientists have unearthed the world’s oldest sperm at a fossil site in Australia. The 17 million-year-old sperm belon...

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about 10 years ago
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Air pollution causes one of every eight deaths per year

Air pollution is a major issue for cities around the world, with regular dangerously high pollution levels in China c...

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about 10 years ago
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Facebook's 'I Fucking Love Science' making the jump to TV

Neil deGrasse Tyson's new version of Cosmos is a more populist take on science programming than most, but an upcoming...

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over 10 years ago
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Curiosity photo casts Earth and moon as 'evening stars' in Martian sky

Many photos of Earth taken from space have entered into legend; The Blue Marble's beautiful, glowing globe is one of ...

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over 10 years ago
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Sewage reveals the popular drugs of the world's cities

An anecdote from a student over drug use at the University of Puget Sound led one professor to test sewage in an effo...

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over 10 years ago
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Sony forms genome analysis company in move towards personalized medicine

Sony is forming a new company to focus on genome research with a view towards realizing personalized medicine and hea...

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