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What would we actually do to stop a "doomsday" asteriod?
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By Jesse Emspak 11 May 2016 Imagine the day observatories confirm that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth; space-faring nations agree we need to stop it. What happens next...
Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/canadian-teenager-discovers-ancient-mayan-city-lost-in-jungles-o/ The Descending God's Temple which is on the Mayan site of Tulum. It is...
The Spitfires that nearly broke the sound barrier.
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By Stephen Dowling 6 May 2016 On 14 October 1947, US test pilot Chuck Yeager did what many thought was impossible. Strapped into the seat of the Bell X1 rocket plane – painfully so,...
Are environmentalists merely indifferent to paupers or do they actually hate them ?
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Does my headline sound extreme ? Keep reading . You may change your mind ... The government has established a rule called the RFS [Renewable Fuel Standard] . It requires the US gasoline supply to...
The ‘Selfish’ Force of R2d2 Awakens
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In the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution , researchers report that the genetic element, responder to meiotic drive on chromosome 2 ( R2d2 ), rapidly transmitted itself across diverse mouse...
Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species - Largest analysis of microbial data reveals that 99.999 percent of all species remain undiscovered
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Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to the results of a new study. The estimate, based on universal scaling laws...
Medical Error is Third Cause of Death
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A new study has found that unreported/underreported medical errors are third cause of death. https://www.propublica.org/article/study-urges-cdc-to-revise-count-of-deaths-from-medical-error
2 siblings have inherited a disease that will stop them from ever sleeping again
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A brother and a sister have inherited a disease that will stop them from ever sleeping again — and that will eventually kill them. Lachlan and Hayley Webb from Queensland, Australia, suffer...
Why do girls want labiaplasty? They're told to hate every inch of themselves
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Jessica Valenti Despite all the feminist progress we’ve made, women and girls are still subject to mixed messages about how their bodies must be perfect. I t would almost be easier if...
Billions of cicadas are about to take over the Northeast
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Billions of cicadas are about to take over the Northeast April 14, 2016 iStock Seventeen years ago, President Bill Clinton was acquitted in impeachment proceedings, Bill...
'Drone' hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport
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A plane approaching Heathrow Airport is believed to have hit a drone before it landed safely, the Metropolitan Police has said. The British Airways flight from Geneva was hit as it approached...
Sarah Palin Doesn’t Think Bill Nye Is A Real Scientist
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sarah-palin-bill-nye_us_57101cefe4b0018f9cb993a1 Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin argued Thursday that Bill...
Here’s What Happened When A Group Of Scientists Went To Confront Their Congressional Tormentors
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientists-congress-tormentors_us_570fcfefe4b03d8b7b9fbedf It turns out their “wasteful” research serves a purpose. Sam Stein Senior Politics Editor, The...
U.S. firms target investment in Israeli cannabis Research & Development
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A worker harvests Cannabis plants at a plantation near the Northern Israeli town of Nazareth. (Reuters) Already a pioneer in high-tech and cutting-edge agriculture, Israel is starting to...
U.S. firms target investment in Israeli cannabis R&D
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A worker harvests Cannabis plants at a plantation near the Northern Israeli town of Nazareth. (Reuters) Already a pioneer in high-tech and cutting-edge agriculture, Israel is starting to...
U.S. firms target investment in Israeli cannabis R&D
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A worker harvests Cannabis plants at a plantation near the Northern Israeli town of Nazareth. (Reuters) Already a pioneer in high-tech and cutting-edge agriculture, Israel is starting to...
U.S. firms target investment in Israeli cannabis R&D
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A worker harvests Cannabis plants at a plantation near the Northern Israeli town of Nazareth. (Reuters) Already a pioneer in high-tech and cutting-edge agriculture,...
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