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What Can the Death of a Neutron Tell Us About Dark Matter?Physicists speculate that decaying neutrons may be producing particles unknown to science that make up the elusive dark matter.
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Aliens on Super-Earth Planets Could Be Stuck There...LiterallyAny alien civilizations born on "super-Earth" planets may be ground-bound by their home worlds' powerful gravity, a new study suggests.
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How Would We Know If Intelligent Life Existed on Earth Before Humans?This is a serious question, and serious scientists are speculating about what traces these potential predecessors might have left behind.
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Nubian Stone Tablets Unearthed in African 'City of the Dead'A vast "city of the dead" in Sudan revealed stones inscribed with the oldest language in southern Africa.
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Mysterious Geoglyphs Reveal Amazon Was Densely Populated Before ColumbusEarthworks that span a huge swath of the Amazon River basin reveal some parts of the region were once densely populated.
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Sea Slime Can Trigger 65-Foot Mega-TsunamisThe corpses of these tiny creatures ooze out a slimy layer that may explain catastrophic undersea landslides and tsunamis.
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This Electronic Skin May Help Prevent Robots from Crushing UsA metallic robot hand with "Terminator"-like power sounds good for the movies. But what about a real-life future where that android is now cradling your baby or just shaking your hand?
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Human History Gets Longer: Oldest Fossils Outside of Africa FoundThe oldest fossils of modern humans outside Africa have been discovered in Israel.
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Silk Road Travelers' Ancient Knowledge May Have Irrigated Desert -
A Neutron Star Hiding Out Near a Black Hole Is Pelting Earth with Radio WavesNew work probes the extraterrestrial source of incredibly powerful explosions of radio waves, investigating why that spot is the only known location to repeatedly burst with these blasts.
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Is the Ice Wall from 'Game of Thrones' Physically Possible?The giant ice wall that protects the Seven Kingdoms from the White Walkers is physically unrealistic, glaciologists say.
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Is the World's First Nuclear Fusion Plant Finally on Track?The world's first nuclear fusion plant has reached a major milestone: Its plasma core is halfway done.
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Rising Seas Could Submerge the Oldest English Settlement in the AmericasRising sea levels could threaten Jamestown in Virginia, Kennedy Space Center and Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, among thousands of other archaeological sites in the U.S.
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'Yeti' Hair? Nothing So Abominable, Scientists FindAbominable snowman DNA has revealed the source of possible yeti sightings in Asia.
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Could Climate Change Affect People’s Personalities?People's personalities may be shaped by the temperatures of the places in which they grew up, a new study suggests.
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These Rodent-Like Creatures Are the Earliest Known Ancestor of Humans, Whales and ShrewsThe discovery of the little creatures, which lived about 145 million years ago, may push the evolution of this mammal group back dozens of millions of years, the researchers said.
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Infant Chimp Snatched and Cannibalized Moments After Its BirthMoments after a wild chimpanzee was born, an adult chimp snatched the infant away from its mother and cannibalized it, according to a new study that is the first to document this macabre behavior.
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Your Hair Color and Sleep Habits May Come from NeanderthalsNeanderthal DNA could influence your skin tone, hair color, sleep patterns, mood and even smoking behavior, a new study finds.
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'Beam of Invisibility' Could Hide Objects Using LightCloaking technologies could become a reality with a specially designed material that can mask itself from other forms of light when it is hit with a "beam of invisibility."
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Real-Life Superpower: 'See' Around Corners with Smartphone TechSmartphone cameras can help detect moving objects even if they are hidden around corners, according to a new study.
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Bacteria Can Be Programmed to Assemble Structures from Gold ParticlesBacterial colonies programmed with synthetic genes can assemble microscopic particles of gold into useful devices such as sensors, a new study finds.
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You May Be More 'Neanderthal' Than You ThoughtThe newly sequenced genome of a female Neanderthal is revealing that our relatives may have passed on genes that today are linked to cholesterol levels, arthritis and other diseases.
