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A lost moon of Neptune has not been seen since its discovery in the late 1980s - until now, that...

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For the first time, researchers have found evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, obliterating everything in its...

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A new report released by the Energy Information Administration showed that the US will end 2013 as the largest producer...

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A black hole is simple and clear, at least according to the model proposed in 1963 by Roy Kerr; his...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used greatly in everyday life, in things like food-storage containers, car bumpers...

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A new government report by the UK’s Department of Energy And Climate Change shows that the country has reached record...

Human hair found in fossilized hyena poop suggests that ancient humans were sometimes on the menu of other animals. The...

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A tiny chip already used in smartphones for the orientation of your screen could serve to create a real-time urban...

The pomato is produced by grafting a tomato plant and a potato plant.

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Source Tom Vanderbilt, journalist, blogger, and author of the best-selling book, Traffic gave an awesome 20 minute presentation on why...

Disguised as employess of a gas company, Beijing policemen burst into an otherwise ordinary looking apartment; the two suspects inside...

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Closed chest defribillators (the type of defribillators you see on TV) have been around for decades, and for a good...

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Dragan Djuric and Boris Delibasic, two professors of FON (Faculty of Organizational Sciences), along with advisor Stevica Radisic deliberately published...

A man from China has had a new nose grown on his head by plastic surgeons, as part of a...

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A lab exemplification of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an instrument that is part of the Sample...

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Paleontologists have scratched the surface of what appears to be a very promising dinosaur site near the Arctic circle, in...

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An award winning student from the Nigerian University of Lagos is claiming that he's "disproved" gay marriage through science, using...

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To my constant surprise and dislike, people continue to think of biofuels as a clean, renewable alternative for the future....