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Breakthrough Technique for Finding Alien Life
Breakthrough Technique for Finding Alien Life
Scientists have a new way to figure out whether distant exoplanets are habitable.
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New Program Spots 11 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Not Flagged By NASA
Leiden University researchers used a method called the 'Hazardous Object Identifier' on supercomputer ALICE, which identified several hazardous asteroids that were likely missed due to their 'chaotic' orbits.
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Archaeologists Unearth 6,000-Year-Old Leaf in Perfect Condition
While doing pre-construction investigations for a new road, Oxford archeologists discovered a treasure trove of preserved ancient items including Stone Age tools, pottery, and seeds. The findings shed light on humans' early transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers.
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Ancient Human Teeth Solve Bananas' Puzzling Past
Plaque from the teeth of ancient island societies show how bananas were spread across the Pacific.
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How Dinosaur Footprints Ended Up on a Cave Ceiling Finally Solved
Did dinosaurs, walking on all fours, use their hands to walk across a cave's ceiling? Scientists have been puzzled by these odd fossils for decades. Now thanks to an unlikely clue, we have an answer.
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90 Years of Pluto: How a Farm Boy from Kansas Made the Historic Discovery
Happy Birthday, Pluto! From planet to dwarf planet, take a trip down memory lane to celebrate 90 years since a young, amateur astronomer discovered the small, icy world.
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Researchers Make Electricity From 'Thin Air'
A protein found in nature makes it possible to generate electricity out of the air, pioneering a new form of green energy.
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Rare Black Hole Could Be Behind Odd Movement at the Milky Way's Center
Researchers detected gas clouds at the center of our galaxy orbiting an undetectable object 10,000 the mass of our sun, which could be evidence of an elusive type of black hole.
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NASA Captures Remnants of 'Mega Chad,' an Ancient Lake in the Sahara Desert
Lake Mega Chad used to be Earth's biggest freshwater lake. It was larger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on Earth today, and you can still see evidence of the 7,000-year-old lake's former shorelines.
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Solar Powered UAV Can Stay in the Air for a Year
The PHASA-35 just had its first successful test run in Australia.
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Eggshell Fossils Give New Insight into Debate Over Dinosaurs' Blood
To see if dinosaurs ran hot or cold, researchers looked to their eggshells.
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VERIFY: Does conservative Texas actually lead the U.S. in green energy?
Texans have spent $7 billion on massive transmission lines that bring wind energy from West Texas to Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin.
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Candy, cheese soar to space station to satisfy crew cravings
The delivery should have arrived before Valentine's Day, but was delayed by bad weather and equipment concerns at the launch pad.
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What Causes These Terrifying Sinkholes to Form?
You don't want to be caught standing above this phenomenon. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the most damage from sinkholes occur in Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania.
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Mysteriously Dimming Star Betelgeuse is Now Changing Shape, Scientists Say
Is an explosion imminent? The 'unprecedented' dimming of Betelgeuse isn't the only weird thing about the red supergiant in the Orion constellation. New observations show its apparent shape is also changing.
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Lowering Airplane Altitude Could Reduce Climate Impact by 59%
Contrails, the white streaks left behind by airplanes, trigger a climate change process, but scientists say lowering altitudes of flights where they most commonly form could reduce the harmful impacts.
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