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Researchers can use powerful microscopes to capture the tiny teeth in squid suckers.

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Space may be considered the final frontier, but the US was once a frontier, too. How can space industry leaders avoid repeating practices that led to colonialism in the 18th century and beyond?

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Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]

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São José do Pinheiro once stood out for its lavishness. Now a public space, it hosts a museum and a school of jongo, a tradition of music, dance, spirituality and storytelling

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The moon will look largest at dusk, one expert says, and those with binoculars should be able to see Saturn’s rings too

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Surviving a shark – or lion, or bear – attack is the key criteria for entry into Bite Club. Together its members navigate their next big challenge: what happens after you survive?

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Exposure to bacteria in landfill sites and polluted rivers may explain prevalence among city-dwelling birds

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02724-0/fulltext

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Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’

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Perseids will be at their height Sunday night into Monday – and viewers will be able to spot a flurry of shooting stars

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Nuclear power already has an energy density advantage over other sources of thermal electricity generation. But what if nuclear generation didn’t require a steam turbine? What if the radiation from a reactor was less a problem to be managed and more a source of energy? And what if an energy conversion technology could scale to fit nuclear power systems ranging from miniature batteries to the grid? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is asking these types of questions in a request for information on High Power Direct Energy Conversion from Nuclear Power Systems, released August 1.

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Ergodic literature is a subgenre of literature that upends the very fabric of storytelling itself.

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⚡Find Nuclear Stations near you

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If you were to make a list of what you want to get done this week, it would mostly consist of things you have to do. Get groceries. Book a hair appointment. Get back to so-and-so. Read that health and safety thing for work.

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Ukraine’s war with Russia dominated the entries and trips to bomb shelters punctuated the Odesa film festival, but two rather wonderful films emerged

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Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violence

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I created a dating profile, using words Carolyn dictated from her bed

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Paul Powlesland, the co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, says he considers the River Roding to be sacred

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The first Cannonball Run in a solar-powered car.

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A CNN investigation finds Airbnb fails to protect its guests against the persistent threat within its industry.

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