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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2018 - Biology / Evolution - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght
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From Wikipedia: The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825,...
AI can predict when someone will die with unsettling accuracy
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By Mindy Weisberger, Live Science Medical researchers have unlocked an unsettling ability in artificial intelligence (AI): predicting a person's early death. Scientists recently trained an AI...
Meteor no one saw coming exploded over Earth with force of 10 atomic bombs
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By Brandon Specktor, Live Science On Dec. 18, 2018, a school bus-size meteor exploded over Earth with an impact energy of roughly 10 atomic bombs. According to NASA , the blast was the...
This, Apparently, Is the Optimal Driving Position
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Recently, Jaguar enlisted the help of its Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Steve Iley, to create a video guide of the perfect driving position. Obviously, this position is only feasible if your...
Here's how AI could help catch shoplifters in the act
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By Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky Shoplifting continues to be a huge problem around the world, costing retailers billions of dollars a year in the United States alone. But a Japanese startup...
The Hayabusa2 Mission to Asteroid Ryugu Just Dropped Its First Scientific Results
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 mission has released its first batch of scientific results on asteroid Ryugu—and it’s revealed a bunch of surprises about the small,...
Social media linked to rise in mental health disorders in teens, survey finds
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By Shamard Charles, M.D. Mental health issues have risen significantly over the last decade and the rise of digital media may be one reason why, according to a national survey released...
Cells from a 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth have been 'revived'
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Cells from a 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth have been 'revived' By Bryan Nelson, Mother Nature Network, March 13 2019 The revived cells were retrieved from this mammoth carcass, named...
New interactive map shows how light pollution affects your hometown
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By Denise Chow Scientists track pollution in the air as well as in the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers. And now, there's a simple interactive tool that affords a detailed look at pollution of...
Goodyear unveils flying car tire concept that works on the ground and in the air
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By David Freeman Sensing a possible shift from conventional automobiles to flying cars, one tiremaker has come up with a tire that doubles as a propeller. Goodyear's Aero tire is...
Daylight saving time 2019 starts on Sunday. Here's how to prepare so you're not tired on Monday.
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* To reduce the effects of DST, try to reset your clock by going to bed and waking up 15-20 minutes earlier starting a few days before the time change. By Nicole Spector This Sunday, we’ll...
Why saving Earth from a rogue asteroid might be harder than we thought
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By Meghan Bartels, Space.com If humanity ever truly felt our existence threatened by an asteroid , one potential recourse would be to smash the looming space rock into pieces — but new...
Selma Blair's MS diagnosis reveals battle chronic illness sufferers like me fight to be taken seriously
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By Caira Conner The second to last time I saw the actress Selma Blair onscreen was in a 2018 horror film called “Mom and Dad,” a Hulu recommendation based on my questionable taste in...
Scientists create super-mice that can see in the dark. Here's what that means for humans.
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By David Freeman No one is ditching the night-vision goggles just yet, but scientists working in the United States and China have developed a technique that they say could one day give humans...
‘This Policy Has Led to Reduced Access to Critical Health Services’
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Janine Jackson: Put in effect in 1984 by Ronald Reagan, the Mexico City Policy prevents foreign organizations that receive US government funding from performing abortions, even if they...
Revolutionary new 'battery' could let us bottle sunshine
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A plastic-like material may do for solar power what high-performance electrical batteries have done for iPhones and Tesla cars. Solar energy is clean, abundant, and irritatingly inconvenient:...
World's largest bee, once feared extinct, rediscovered in Indonesia
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By Phil Helsel The world’s largest bee, last seen by a scientist in 1981, is not extinct after all. A single female was found and documented earlier this year on an Indonesian island, an...
'Young blood' company Ambrosia halts patient treatments after FDA warning
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By Shamard Charles, M.D. A company that charged patients thousands of dollars for infusions of blood plasma from younger donors said Tuesday that it had stopped treating patients after...
Mysterious fast radio bursts detected from deep space
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Jan. 10, 2019, 4:27 PM EST / Source: Live Science By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Don't look now, but Earth is being bombarded with mysterious, invisible light. Among the typical array...
World's first 'floating tunnel' proposed in Norway
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By Denise Chow Steep, icy mountains and deep fjords make western Norway famously scenic, but they also make life difficult for motorists. With seven ferries along the way, the almost 700-mile...
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