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In the 1930s, This Natural History Curator Discovered a Living Fossil–Well, Sort of
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It was a pre-Christmas miracle: on this day in 1938, when an observant curator spotted something seemingly impossible in a waste pile of fish. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a museum curator in...
England Has Its Own Pod of Dolphins
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Bottlenose dolphins are one of the most wide-ranging species in the ocean, living in habitats from the tropics to the chillier waters off of North America and Europe. And while the creatures...
How Economic Incentives have Created our Dysfunctional US Medical Market
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What you’ll see is that the economic forces and incentives that motivate our health system often lead to medical practices that are not especially good for our health — or our wallets....
What Shrinking Fossil-Rich National Monuments Means for Science
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Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced the dramatic rollback of protections for roughly two million acres of land in national monuments of southern Utah, stating that the creation...
Four ways natural history museums skew reality
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Natural history museums are magical places. They inspire awe and wonder in the natural world and help us understand our place within the animal kingdom. Behind the scenes, many of them are also...
Saturn’s rings are surprisingly young and may be from shredded moons
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Saturn’s iconic rings are a recent addition. Final data from the Cassini spacecraft, which flew between the planet and the rings this year before plunging into the gas giant’s atmosphere,...
The Great Red Spot Descends Deep Into Jupiter
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is not just a skin-deep beauty mark. Instead, the iconic storm descends at least 200 miles beneath the clouds and possibly much deeper. That is one of the latest...
China Climate Change Plan to Establish Carbon Market
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China Climate Change Plan to Establish Carbon Market By Clyde Hughes, Newsmax, Tuesday, 19 Dec 2017 A man waits for a bus on a polluted day in Beijing on Dec. 20, 2016. (Greg...
This old drug was free. Now it’s $109,500 a year.
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For four decades, Don Anderson of Seattle has been taking the same drug to help control the temporary bouts of immobility and muscle weakness caused by a rare and frightening genetic illness...
Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’
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7 years ago
Source A former Facebook executive is making waves after he spoke out about his “tremendous guilt” over growing the social network, which he feels has eroded “the core foundations of how...
Van Allen Belt Mystery Solved With Student-Built Satellite
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Oh, that Van Allen Belt—online crackpots love to use Earth’s belt of radiation to bolster their Moon landing conspiracies, suggesting it could be too strong for an astronaut to travel through...
With FCC’s net neutrality ruling, the US could lose its lead in online consumer protection
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The internet may be an international system of interconnecting networks sharing a rough global consensus about the technical details of communicating through them – but each country manages its...
The Many Ways in Which Cars Were Stupendously Unsafe 60 Years Ago
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Unpadded metal surfaces, blunt knobs and rods, steering columns that impale—and seatbelts weren’t even on the options list. We may think highly of the 1955 Chevrolet, but like all cars of the...
New Species of Extinct Marsupial Lion Deepens Their Fierce Family Tree
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The dog-sized animal adds more diversity to the history of Australia’s largest predator. Most modern marsupials are pretty cute and cuddly—koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, sugar gliders...
Israeli Expo Showcases New Artificial Intelligence Technology
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Israeli Expo Showcases New Artificial Intelligence Technology Engineers at a cutting-edge technology expo presented Israeli-developed inventions that police forces and armies around the...
We Regret to Inform You the White House's Solution to the Opioid Crisis Is Kellyanne Conway ... Green Rules apply
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The scale of the opioid crisis gripping the United States is hard to fathom. Since 2000, lethal overdoses from opioid use have tripled, and the problem is so widespread Centers for Disease...
What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur?
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The question may sound like a “duh,” but it gets to the heart of how we categorize and define nature Ask any 8-year-old what a dinosaur is, and she’ll eagerly rattle off her favorite of the...
Trump Just Won’t Give up on Undoing Obama’s Methane Rule
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The Trump administration really doesn’t want to impose rules curtailing the venting of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, during oil and gas operations. On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management...
VW halts European van deliveries amid diesel emissions 'uncertainties'
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Volkswagen said on Friday it had stopped delivering the T6 Multivan to dealers after detecting that the diesel model emitted excessive nitrogen oxide levels. VW said it had reported the findings...
Freaky New Dinosaur Was Part Duck, Part Raptor
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The last few years have yielded some truly bizarre dinosaur discoveries. From rhino-like animals with massive heads and stubby spines, to beaked mishmashes of every dinosaur in the book, there’s...