Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on Live Science.
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This year, researchers have explored these questions and more, delivering fascinating insights into human nature. Here are eight of the most intriguing stories on human nature from this year.
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How much dark matter has gone missing since the Big Bang? New research suggests anywhere from 2 to 5 percent.
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The “New Years’ Eve Comet” that’s been streaking across the sky this December isn’t the only otherworldly visitor ringing in the New Year in Earth’s neighborhood.
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When people have low levels of iron in their blood, they may develop a condition called iron deficiency anemia, which is known to have wide-ranging effects throughout the body.
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Mars may appear red when viewed from Earth, but NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured an up-close photo of the planet’s mountainous landscape, and there are purple-colored rocks littered across the foreground.
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The darkening of a mysterious star, which might be due to “alien megastructures,” according to some researchers’ theories, might instead be due to avalanche-like magnetic activity within the star, a new study finds.
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Amid rumors and what-if scenarios, NASA tells researchers to “be a source of signal, not a source of noise.”
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Time will tack hang for a second at the stroke of midnight tonight as an extra leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Explaining the source of sunspots is a pretty tough nut to crack.
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A hairy electronic skin filled with teeny magnetic microwires could be used to give people with prosthetic limbs a sense of touch, or could even be used in robots to help them “feel” their surroundings.
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The incoming Trump administration has signaled hostility toward climate science and policy.
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A single breath into a newfangled breathalyzer is all doctors need to diagnose 17 different diseases, including lung cancer, irritable bowel syndrome and multiple sclerosis, a new study found.
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From smooching with a sweetie to blowing things up, here are the roots for six New Year’s Traditions.
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Are there more or fewer doctors than ever before? How many people are really smoking weed? Are people opting for the flu vaccine in greater numbers?
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Though most people now celebrate the new year on Jan. 1, it wasn’t always this way.
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A new viral protein could be used as an “off switch” for one of the most powerful and promising gene editing tools, potentially making it safer for human applications.
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From the elimination of measles in the U.S. to the advance of potential new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, 2016 was a jam-packed year for health news.
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Did Debbie Reynolds die of a broken heart?
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In negotiating, is a more precise opening offer always better?
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The ancient bristlecone pine trees of California, the world’s oldest trees, are in danger of becoming extinct thanks to climate change.
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Though nine-banded armadillos are solitary creatures, they do occasionally get together for some genital sniffing, tail wagging and clucking in order to have sex.
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Mysterious, thin, wispy clouds hide under the hazy upper atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Interestingly, the elusive clouds are not visible in all images captured by the cameras aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
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China’s Information Office of the State Council on December 27 released an expansive white paper on that country’s space activities in 2016, and projected looks at its space agenda in coming years.
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The Enigma machine’s cipher technology featured in the Imitation Game movie will be used to generate codes more secure than those on the back of credit cards.
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It’s unclear whether a mysterious 2,100-year-old stone bowl fragment recently unearthed in Jerusalem belonged to royalty or a commoner, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced late last week.
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The night after the winter solstice, the skies over northern Canada were alight with the aurora borealis.
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When nautical visitors sailed into the ancient Grecian city of Lechaion, they would have first encountered a monumental entrance leading to several inland canals, all of which were connected to no fewer than four harbor basins, archaeologists said.
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Our annual countdown of significant or otherwise humorous scientific retractions.
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Science is weird – and a number of new findings during 2016 proved it.
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“As much as one quarter of ocean species depend on coral reefs for food or shelter,” according to NASA. Rising sea levels and temperatures threaten these important ecosystems, which also play an important role economically around the world.
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Hobbits were established to NOT be human, we learned what killed off an ancient, giant ape, but we still don’t know what caused the “Wow!” signal nor what happened to Malaysian Flight 370.
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Would you like to cross paths with a hairy tarantula from Colombia or a Thai newt that looks like a “Star Trek” Klingon? If the answer is yes, you’re in good company.
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Type 1 diabetes may be triggered by distress signals sent out with cells from the pancreas, new research suggests.
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Only about 7,100 cheetahs remain in the world, and their numbers are declining quickly.
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From stunning animals like a dancing peacock spider, to ancient history, including a striking Etruscan sarcophagus in the shape of a woman’s face, to the plain bizarre, such as an ancient tattoo on a mummy’s neck, 2016 was full of great science images.
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Researchers who study diet and weight loss learned many things during 2016. Here are some of their most intriguing findings.
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Carrie Fisher passed away today (Dec. 27) after suffering a heart attack while on a flight from London to Los Angeles on Dec. 23, People Magazine reports.
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A fossilized dinosaur brain, a pregnant T. rex and a bloody preserved dino tail, among other finds, make 2016 one of the best years for paleontology buffs.
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Here are Live Science’s picks for the 16 strangest medical cases of 2016.
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The Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center sifted through thousands of photos to deliver their top 16 of 2016. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured all of the breathtaking images.
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Here’s a roundup of some of the coolest (or scariest, depending on how you feel) abilities machines added to their repertoire in the last year.
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2016 had some very depressing headlines regarding global warming and the planet’s overall environmental health.
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Archaeologists discovered hundreds of Indian potatoes at a once-waterlogged prehistoric garden in British Columbia.
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Living animals provided 3D artists with inspiration for the magical creatures in “Fantastic Beasts.”
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The film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” revisits the wizarding world of Harry Potter and spotlights the magical creatures that inhabit it.
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From new Dead Sea Scrolls to the youngest mummy ever found in Egypt, to a 1,500-year-old stone complex the size of 200 American football fields to the tomb of Jesus, here’s a look at the biggest archaeology stories of 2016.
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Want to lose weight in the New Year? We can help. Live Science’s resolution is to make a healthier you in 2017. January’s goal is weight loss.
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Live Science has pulled together the best studies and expert advice about exercise.
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Want to eat healthier in the New Year? We can help. Live Science’s resolution is to make a healthier you in 2017. February’s goal is eating better.
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As the cultural diversity in the U.S. increases, scholars are exploring how to discuss with children issues of importance, like race and religion, through stories.
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Here are some of the headline-grabbing natural disasters that occurred this year.
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From glowworm mucous to the strange quantum behavior of light, here’s the weird science of 2016.
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Ancient cave art in the Egyptian Sahara desert depicts two parents, a baby and a star in the east.
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Red pandas are small mammals with long, fluffy tails and red and white markings. They are not related to giant pandas.
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Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first successful permanent English settlement in what would become the United States.
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Whether you want to go full vegetarian, or simply include more plant-based foods in your diet, here are some tips that can help.
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International pressure mounts for a preemptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems.
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In an unexpected first, researchers have discovered ammonia in the troposphere, Earth’s lowest atmospheric layer, a new study finds.
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Is it a foregone conclusion that we can’t help closing our eyes during a sneeze? Not quite, researchers say.
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It’s a line you’ll hear in almost any crime show after someone finds the body — the detective turns to the medical examiner and asks, “Time of death?”
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Strangely shaped deep-sea fish have found an unexpected but appreciative audience on land.
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By the time they were 3 years old, ostrich-like dinosaurs called Limusaurus inextricabilis had lost all of their pointy teeth, and lived the rest of their lives as toothless beasts, a new study finds.
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Meet Colo, the oldest gorilla in the world. The western lowland gorilla has lived all her life in Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
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The first gorilla born in human care turned 60 years old on Dec. 22 at her home in the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio.
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Starfish larvae churn water with food in mind.
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Born in 1956 at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Colo, the oldest gorilla in the world, celebrates her 60th birthday on December 22, 2016.
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New images captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show small, erosion-carved cracks in Red Planet sand dunes. The features may be infant versions of similar-looking but larger Martian channel-networks that have been dubbed spiders.
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Photos on Facebook and Instagram purport to show a humanoid robot 13 feet (4 meters) tall, weighing 1.5 tons, being developed in South Korea. Live Science could not confirm the veracity of the images.
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A video of a giant humanoid robot is exciting, but there are questions about its origins.
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Biofilms are slimy layers of microorganisms that stick to wet surfaces. They may cause up to 80 percent of infections.
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Just looking at this image might give the impression that this woman’s baby literally kicked its feet right out of her uterus.
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Next time he’s vacationing in Hawaii, President Barack Obama might just bump into his new namesake: a pink, yellow and blue coral-reef fish that researchers have named in the president’s honor.
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Astronomers may have to think a little harder to solve the mystery of Boyajian’s star, whose strange dimming events over the past seven years have spawned talk of a possible “alien megastructure.”
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The blood of a martyred bishop failed to turn from solid to liquid after being shaken. Are we doomed?
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Divers have recovered fragments of a lavish silk-and-wool carpet at a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of the Netherlands.
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The people who work at marijuana dispensaries have not know enough about marijuana to give accurate recommendations, a new survey finds.
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Wealth can generate a feeling of autonomy and self-sufficiency, which can lead people to focus on personal goals rather than the needs of others. That means rich people may be less giving than the poor.
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High-speed video reveals that starfish larvae create whirlpools to trap algae meals.
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About a million years before steak tartare came into fashion, Europe’s earliest humans were eating raw meat and uncooked plants. But their raw cuisine wasn’t a trendy diet; rather, they had yet to use fire for cooking, a new study finds.
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The Obama administration put vast swaths of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans off limits to oil and gas drilling to protect marine life, address climate change and safeguard the areas from development after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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The need to move things to the next level has been recognized for thousands of years.
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Winter officially kicks off Wednesday (Dec. 21), which marks the December solstice — the day with the fewest hours of sunlight of 2016. Here’s why.
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How well did you follow health news in 2016? Test your knowledge with our 10-question quiz.
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The winter solstice is the longest night of the year. But will that extra time of darkness help you sleep better?
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The robot is the only of its kind, and the record it broke was its own.
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Some of the stranger finned creatures of the deep.
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The bacteria that cause gonorrhea can be found in a person’s mouth — but killing them may be as simple as gargling with mouthwash, a new study from Australia finds.
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An elusive “ghost shark” has come out of hiding, as video has captured footage of the fish — whose face looks as if it were stitched together in a Frankenstein-like manner — for the first time in the Northern Hemisphere.
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For the first time, physicists have shown that atoms of antimatter appear to give off the same kind of light that atoms of regular matter do when illuminated with lasers, a new study finds.
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A “Klingon newt” and a “Ziggy Stardust” snake are two of 163 new species recently discovered in Southeast Asia.
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The Greater Mekong region in Southeast Asia holds an incredible range of biodiversity, and new species found in 2015 include a “Ziggy Stardust” snake and a newt that resembles a Star Trek Klingon.
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Anne Frank and her family may have been discovered by accident.
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The number of people in the U.S. who died from an overdose of the opioid painkiller fentanyl more than doubled in just a single year, according to a new report.
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The Amazon River is a massive, intricate water system. It is by far the mightiest river on Earth in terms of volume and width.
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Echidnas are walking contradictions. They are mammals, but they lay eggs. They are described as long-beaked and short-beaked, but they don’t have beaks in the traditional sense.
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A new technology that would use a roughly half-mile-long tether to grab large pieces of space debris and dispose of them is being tested in space.
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The detection of hydrated salts within Mars’ intriguing, seasonally appearing dark streaks aren’t necessarily proof of liquid water, according to a new study.
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f you’re In the hospital, the gender of your doctor may matter.
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A band of molten iron is churning slowly deep inside Earth, much in the same way as a jet stream, a new study finds.
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Nearly 50 people died recently in a Siberian city after they drank bath oil as a substitute for alcohol. But why was the substance so deadly?
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Most children are not likely to believe that fish live on the moon. What makes children accept some stories and be skeptical about others?
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A complex computer simulation has modeled the impact of an asteroid in the ocean and the results may surprise you.
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Marijuana use among pregnant women in the U.S. increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2014, a new study finds.
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How do scientists build better flying robots? They look to the natural world for inspiration.
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Neuroscience suggests that people are predisposed to be more like Santa than Scrooge.
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Just like human hair, dogs’ fur can go gray if they’re going through tough times, a new study finds.
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To aid in the search for life on Mars, people should look at the way primitive life on Earth modifies the environment around it.
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Here are the most interesting, amazing and unusual things that happened in the world of science this week. A recap of Live Science’s best.
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The body breaks fat down after it runs out of another energy source, sugar.
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Live Science’s Laura Geggel presents two fun-filled games that encourage logical thinking and spatial reasoning – Gravity Maze and Cool Circuits. Find out where to buy them and more in our guide for Educational Toys and Games for 7- to 10-Year-Olds
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Live Science’s Laura Geggel showcases Fisher-Price Newborn-to-Toddler Play Gym, Play Dino and Busy Learner’s Activity Cube. Find out where to buy them and more in our guide for Educational Toys and Games For Infant and Toddlers.
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Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on Live Science.
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Six people in Colorado recently became infected with a “nightmare” superbug that until now, has mostly been limited to people in hospitals.
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Music icon Jimi Hendrix is famous for his many songs, including “Purple Haze” and “The Wind Cries Mary,” but now he’ll also be remembered for an entirely different reason: Botanists have named a newfound species of rare, flowery succulent after him.
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Earthquake cloaks, made up of thousands of precisely drilled boreholes, could potentially deflect seismic waves from expensive infrastructure.
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From navigating turbulence, to sleeping midflight, to soaring without a sound, animals’ flight adaptations are helping scientists design better flying robots.
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MEL Chemistry is a next-generation series of chemistry experiments that arrive in the mail every month. Live Science’s Mindy Weisberger explains and performs an experiment from the kit.
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More than 400 ancient texts have been saved at the Mar Behnam monastery, a place that ISIS had occupied for more than two years.
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IBM’s question-answering whiz, the Watson computer system, is digging into aerospace research and data to help NASA answer questions on the frontier of spaceflight science and make crucial decisions in the moment during air travel.
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A few weeks before the Islamic State group (also called ISIS) occupied the Mar Behnam monastery, a young priest hid more than 400 ancient texts behind a makeshift wall. Here’s a look at the monastery and texts.
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At your next doctor’s exam, one thing will be certain: Your physician won’t be using powdered medical gloves.
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Is the U.S. in for a bitterly cold winter or a bearable one? It all depends on where you live, according to a three-month outlook published by the U.S. Climate Prediction Center.
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Petrified lightning could provide insight into how much energy is produced during these shocking strikes.
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In August 2015, lava flows were captured by the Remotely Operated Vehicle Jason during the Axial Expedition 2015.
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Scientists now think that a a weird sound that was recorded in the Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean may be that of a minke whale, a type of baleen whale.
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A physicist tries to figure out if it’s possible to build Star Wars’ Death Star, the moon-size space station with a weapon powerful enough to destroy a planet.
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Around the deepest parts of the ocean, scientists eavesdropped on whale conversations.
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Hairy-chested crabs and alien-looking worms festoon mineral chimneys along the seafloor, nourished by the sizzling-hot fluids gushing out from these “spires.” Check out these amazing photos of the deep-sea animals.
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Surprising connections emerge between the world’s undersea vents, including the Jabberwocky vent.
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The Yosemite Valley’s beautiful landscape of promontories, sheer walls, domes and waterfalls create some of the most scenic views anywhere in North America.
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The answer is not so simple, as several inventors came up with different designs around the same time.
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There may be a way to tap into people’s brain activity to boost their confidence, a new study suggests.
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A bound copy of Sir Isaac Newton’s seminal book on mathematics and science was sold for $3.7 million, making it the most expensive printed scientific book ever sold at auction, according to Christie’s.
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Water ice exists on the surface of Ceres, new observations have confirmed. The water ice is harbored in regions on the surface of this massive asteroid that are permanently cloaked in shadow.
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Assuming Rick Perry is confirmed as the new Secretary of Energy, he will face a paradox, as the DOE doesn’t spend most of its resources on energy production. Here’s what the department really does.
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Abortions don’t harm women’s mental health, but being denied access to one might, a new study finds.
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Last year’s eruption of one of the most active submarine volcanoes is offering clues about these explosive processes, which could help scientists better understand volcanoes on land, including those that pose serious threats to humans.
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Scientists have found a way to turn back the clock on cells, and mice given the treatment looked younger and had a longer lifespan.
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Glowworms create dazzling threads to trap unsuspecting insects. And now, researchers think they may have found the secret ingredient in the worms’ traps: urea from their guts.
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The world’s largest, most valuable diamonds may be born in pockets of liquid metal located deep within the Earth, a new study finds.
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Someday, a mother-to-be may be able to put on a virtual reality headset and get a clear, 360-degree look at her own fetus in the womb.
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An uncommon drug caused a “zombie” outbreak in a New York City neighborhood this past summer, and now a new report identifies the exact compound that the affected people took.
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A swirling mass of cold air usually stays parked at the poles, but sometimes that system can weaken, sending an Arctic blast southward into the U.S.
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It turns out that it’s not whether kids are naughty or nice that determines if Santa pays them a visit on Christmas. Nor is it the distance that Santa needs to travel from the North Pole.
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It’s all just one morbid optical illusion.
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The Atacama Desert, the world’s driest place outside of the poles, may have once harbored wetlands and lakes that allowed America’s first settlers to colonize the continent.
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About one-quarter of the world’s population lives in coastal areas that will be unlivable by the year 2100 because of rising sea levels, researchers say.
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The Cold War may have ended decades ago, but spy satellites’ data from that era are now being used for a new mission: tracking environmental change in the Himalayas.
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How likely is it that mountain glaciers’ retreat is caused by climate change? About 99 percent likely, according to a new study.
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Why do some people survive heart attacks, while others don’t?
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The sweetener in your beverage makes little difference in terms of the overall calories you consume in a day, a new study suggests.
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You might find yourself wishing for a silent night after you hear the first Christmas song written by artificial intelligence.
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A monstrous swell in the North Atlantic that rose up as high as a six-story building is now the world’s tallest wave measured by a buoy, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
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The capital of New Zealand is primed for a major earthquake, thanks to the massive restructuring of stress on faults beneath the country.
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A video showing whorls of water swirling around a tiny starfish larva earned the top prize in a Nikon competition.
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A diverse range of miniscule organisms were big winners in the annual Nikon Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition.
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The global warming signal in the Arctic was stronger and more pronounced during 2016 than any other year.
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If its similar to boron found on Earth, it could potentially mean that there was habitable groundwater on ancient Mars. Patrick Gasda, a postdoctoral researcher from the Los Alamos National Laboratory explains the find.
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A crater in Antarctica isn’t from a meteorite but from melt.
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Sharks, both real and imagined, had an important place in the mythology of the ancient Maya.
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Giant fossilized teeth from extinct megalodon sharks may have inspired portrayals of a primordial sea monster in Mesoamerican creation myths.
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A meltwater lake under the ice on the Roi Baudouin ice sheet in East Antarctica suggests the area is more vulnerable to warming than previously expected.
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The ancient relative of humanity dubbed “Lucy” may have been one of a harem of gals who mated with a single male, according to research that suggests her species was polygynous.
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Hundreds of scientists rallied in support of science at the American Geophysical Union meeting here in San Francisco.
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Pangolins, also called scaly anteaters, are covered in hard, armor-like scales. These mammals are one of the most trafficked mammals in Asia and Africa, and are endangered.
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A new study reveals more than 800 new reasons why some people can’t smell the characteristic scent of asparagus compounds in urine.
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