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Earth's magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate 'disaster'
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3 years ago
A reversal in Earth's magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged the planet into an environmental crisis that may have resembled "a disaster movie," scientists recently discovered....
Dire wolves were real—and even stranger than we thought
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3 years ago
Even before appearing as fictional pets in the television series Game of Thrones, dire wolves had long captured imaginations. Weighing around 150 pounds, the creatures were larger than the...
Student scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao is Time Magazine's first "Kid of the Year"
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4 years ago
BUZZ NOTE: There is a relevant news video on this seed (an interview with Gitanjali Rao) that everyone should watch to see how amazing this kid is, that may be accessed by clicking the "SEEDED...
We are humans / homo sapiens...
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4 years ago
Source: https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/human We're humans / homo sapiens, which are a highly intelligent [arguable] species of primate that live on planet earth and require food...
NIH Director 'Guardedly Optimistic' About COVID-19 Vaccine Approval By End Of 2020
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4 years ago
Dr. Collins is Dr Fauci's boss. As far as expertise goes, Dr. Collins is one of the leading experts on human biology having lead the successful sequencing of the human genome. He currently...
Coronavirus: Health experts join global anti-lockdown movement
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4 years ago
Herein lies the problem, imo. There are scientists and there is science and frankly... many fields of science. In this case we have scientists declaring the dangers of current lockdown procedures,...
Handwashing, distancing and mask-wearing all drastically cut risk of catching COVID-19: research
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4 years ago
BUZZ NOTE: There is a news video with this article that is relevant to local virus situations in Canada which is not necessarily relevant to the article, but it can be accessed by clicking the...
Aliens over Venus? Astronomers catch a whiff of life in planet’s clouds
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4 years ago
Can you smell what the rocky planet of Venus is cooking? Because it might be the alien life we've been trying so hard to find Astronomers say they've detected a chemical in the Venusian...
I confess, I'm scared of the next generation of supercomputers | TechRadar
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4 years ago
Imagine a single computer that has the processing power of 415,000 of the best modern desktop computers working together. This machine can conduct 415.5 petaFLOPS. (A FLOP is a floating point...
Health misinformation generated billions of Facebook views in the last year, study finds
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4 years ago
Health misinformation is drawing a concerning number of eyes on Facebook, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found. The advocacy group Avaaz on Wednesday released a report...
New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus | In the Pipeline
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4 years ago
This could be a move in the right direction if it is found that even pre-existing T cells can provide cellular immunity against and/or at least some level of treatment for those already infected...
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