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c If you want your kids to be healthier, thinier and smarter, then you probably should keep them away from...

Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian...

The first touchable scientific results of the Herschel infrared space observatory are spectacular indeed; not only is it showing previously...

The biggest beaver dam is (get ready folks), twice as long as the Hoover dam, measuring 2,790 ft (over 800...

Using DNA preserved for 25.000 - 43.000 years in bones from Siberian mammoths, a team of international scientists recreated mammoth...

Barack Obama came out and said that it should be possible for NASA to send astronauts to Mars and bring...

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Two studies put Einstein's theory, the General Theory of Relativity to a test unlike any other before. The two teams...

The discovery of 9 new planets raises some serious questions on the matter of how planets are formed. Two astronomers...

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I don't know about you but I was thrilled to find out Natural Geographic was launching another baby, dedicated to...

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The Coma Galaxy, a galaxy directly involved in the so called dark flow Two years ago, researchers reported the strange...

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is already in its 7th year on Mars, and over the years it provided some...

According to a research conducted by researchers from the Cornell University the portions and the plates depicted in more than...

"This is a normal, temperate exoplanet just like dozens we already know, but this is the first whose properties we...

At nearly 200 meters below the ice, there is no light, the temperature is way below 0 degrees, and scientists...

Just like any muscle in your body, if not used, the brain starts to degrade as time passes; this has...

Parts of the car's bodywork could double up as it's batter in a not so far away future; at least...

There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some...

A recent study published by Berkeley UC concluded that an hour nap boosts the brain's learning capacity and restores power,...

Caño Cristales is a river located in Northern Columbia, with a length of almost 100 km and a width of...

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Whether intelligent life exists in our universe is a long debated problem. But for some scientists, there's something even more...

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Pluto is so upset that it's no longer a planet, that it's turning all red with anger ! No, seriously....

Mark Benfield from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge was undertaking a survey when he spotted this amazing oarfish at about...

Boy I've gotta tell you, my jaw really dropped when I heard this one. There are actual lakes, on the...

Yes ladies and gents, giant squids are all over the California beaches. Each of the squids weighs about 40 pounds,...

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