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Huge underwater volcano chain discovered off the coast of Tasmania
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7 years ago
By Denise Chow While mapping the seafloor some 250 miles off the coast of the Australian island of Tasmania, scientists recently discovered what’s being called a “volcanic lost world”...
Apple's pricey new iPhones like the XS and XS Max highlight Tim Cook's shift in strategy
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By Paris Marx Apple’s new corporate strategy is clear: raise prices on everything. The new iPad Pro and MacBook Air it announced on October 30 came with respective price hikes of $150...
Why Do People Believe So Strongly in Evolution?
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Prior to the nineteenth century, most geologists and paleontologists believed that the earth’s land features and fossil rocks were the result of the biblical global flood. With the publication of...
Unique From Day One: Pro-life Is Pro-Science
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Each year the March for Life board and staff choose a theme that will best contribute to building a culture of life; and as they do so, they take into account cultural norms and current events...
New Study Reveals Religious Upbringing Better for Kids’ Health, Well-Being
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A recent Harvard study reveals that children who had a religious upbringing are likely to be healthier and have a higher degree of well-being in early adulthood than those who did not. The...
Last Flu Season Was Deadliest In Decades. This Might Be One Reason Why
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Last Flu Season Was Deadliest in Decades. This Might Be One Reason Why Just 37.1% of adults got flu shot By Evann Gastaldo , Newser Staff Posted Oct 25, 2018 4:00 PM CDT...
Why some researchers say 'brain tingles' could be the next big trend in relaxation
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Oct. 24, 2018 / 5:53 PM EDT By Sarah DiGiulio Have you ever felt a static-like or tingling sensation on the top of your head when someone brushes your hair or whispers to you? The feeling may...
Genetic error led humans to evolve bigger, but more vulnerable, brains
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Newly-discovered genes that helped supersize human brains along with DNA retrieved from extinct humans, which can still be found in people living today, are expanding scientists' understanding...
Human powers of hibernation may be dormant in genetic code
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Bears do it. So do groundhogs, squirrels, turtles and many other animals. Humans, however, can’t hibernate — at least not right now. But scientists exploring the genetic underpinnings of...
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
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Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current...
A last-ditch global warming fix? A man-made 'volcanic' eruption
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The international panel charged with reining in climate change said this week that the world needs to take "unprecedented" steps to remake its energy, transportation and agriculture systems...
A last-ditch global warming fix? A man-made 'volcanic' eruption
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The international panel charged with reining in climate change said this week that the world needs to take "unprecedented" steps to remake its energy, transportation and agriculture systems...
This teacher's favorite textbooks were taken from her classroom. Her principal did it
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Silverman, a 30-year veteran teacher whose scores deem her one of the best teachers in the state, has been using a textbook called "McDougal-Littell Literature" for a decade, although students...
Humanoid construction robot installs drywall by itself
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If Japan's Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute has its way, construction workers might be a thing of the past. Researchers have built HRP-5P, a humanoid bot that can...
Texas family fighting for 9-year-old daughter declared brain dead
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7 years ago
From CBS News: FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas couple has 10 days to find a hospital willing to keep their young daughter on life support. But doctors in Fort Worth say 9-year-old Payton Summons is...
Have you ever wondered how hot it can get?
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7 years ago
While doing some research this evening I came across a curious video about temperature and how hot temperatures can get. Here it is for viewing entertainment: While viewing the above video I...
GAIA spots stars flying between the galaxies
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A team of astronomers using the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way were surprised to find stars instead sprinting...
This Japanese probe just took an epic hop on a strange little asteroid
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After a three-and-a-half-year journey of 2 billion miles, a Japanese space probe last week dropped a pair of hopping, grapefruit-size rovers on an asteroid called Ryugu and began beaming back...
Taxing soda won't end America's unhealthy obsession with sugary drinks. Better education might.
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7 years ago
When I talk to my personal fitness clients, one of the most common concerns I hear is, I know it’s bad for me, but I just love soda. Unfortunately, it’s a common refrain: A 2012 study stated...
Weight Watchers' rebranding won't help save the company that built its business around fat-shaming
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The company that gifted us classic dogmatic weight loss rhetoric such as, “the thinner, the winner” and “nothing tastes as good as thin feels” has decided to instead focus on promoting “wellness...
Jamie Lee Curtis Parents, put down your cellphones. Your kids are watching.
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7 years ago
How many times have you sat with somebody and they're looking at their phone? It's so rude, but that's what's happening to a generation of children with their parents. Our mothers were, for most...
If teens aren't reading, it might be what and how we ask them to read
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7 years ago
One is to blame the kids. We all know that kids these days don’t seem to be reading books as much as they could since they have so many pictures and videos on their smartphones to distract them....
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