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‘Ridiculously Dim’ Bevy of Stars Found Beyond Milky Way
A team of American, Canadian and Chilean astronomers have stumbled onto a remarkably faint cluster of stars orbiting the...
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Smallest-Ever Mammoth Roamed Crete Millions of Years Ago
The smallest mammoth ever known to have existed roamed the island of Crete millions of years ago, researchers say....
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Cosmic Blasts Powered By a Hot Glow
Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi space telescope has recorded hundreds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), flashes of light...
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How to Feed the World While Earth Cooks
A conference on feeding the world must also feed itself. For the New America Foundation’s recent “Feeding the World...
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Ocean Garbage Patch Expands, Breeds Bugs
The great Pacific garage patch is giving sea striders a place to breed out on the open ocean, changing...
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First-Ever Light From Earth-Like Planet Seen
Light from an alien “super-Earth” twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space...
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NASA Budget Cuts Draw Threat of Presidential Veto
A 2013 spending bill that would fund NASA’s commercial crew program below the level President Barack Obama requested drew...
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Refugees From the Ice Age: How Was Europe Repopulated?
Scientists have used DNA analysis to gain important new insights into how human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice...
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Tidal Heating Shrinks the Goldilocks Zone
A previously little-considered heating effect could shrink estimates of the habitable zone of the Milky Way’s most numerous class...
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Having a ‘Purpose in Life’ May Help Shield You From Dementia
A new study suggests you can keep dementia at bay by developing a firm purpose in life. The findings...