Science
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Research: Phasing out Teen Smoking Could Save 1.2 Million Lives
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Banning the sale of tobacco to people born between 2006 and 2010 could prevent...
November 6, 2024
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Back from Edge of Extinction, Frogs Begin Journey Home
SANTIAGO (Reuters) — Sandwiched between wet towels in temperature-monitored containers, a dozen c...
November 6, 2024
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Oldest Tadpole from Dinosaur Times Found in Southern Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Scientists in Argentina have discovered excellently preserved fossil rem...
November 6, 2024
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‘Space Shower’ System To Be Developed by Mirable Maker Science; Company Will Develop Bathing Capsule for Use on ISS
Science, maker of the Mirable showerhead series, will develop a shower product that can be used i...
November 6, 2024
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Fossils Reveal Head of Ancient Millipede That Was Biggest Bug Ever
During the Carboniferous Period, Earth’s atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants an...
October 31, 2024
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Genome Analysis Unreliable for Looks
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A Japanese team said Oct. 16 that technology to predict future physical trai...
October 31, 2024
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Ancient Throne Room in Peru Points to Possible Female Ruler
LIMA (Reuters) — Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered evidence that could point to a woman rulin...
October 23, 2024
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Scientists Map Fly Brain in Neurobiological Milestone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Scientists announced on Oct. 2 a milestone in neurobiological research wit...
October 23, 2024
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2 Newly Recruited Japanese Certified as Astronauts
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Two Japanese selected in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s first publ...
October 23, 2024
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Parkinson’s Patients to Receive Gut Bacteria Transplants, in Clinical 1st for Japan
The gut bacteria of healthy people are set to be transplanted into the large intestines of people...
October 21, 2024
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Electric Oranges? Japan’s Researchers Test Device to Generate Power from Mikan Mandarin Fields
YAWATAHAMA, Ehime — Shikoku Electric Power Co. and researchers from the Tokyo University of Agric...
October 18, 2024
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Oldest-known Birds of Prey Lived alongside T. Rex in North America
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — In western North America during the twilight of the dinosaur age, the unqu...
October 17, 2024
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David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper Win 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Update1)
STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Britain's Demis Hass...
October 9, 2024
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Danish Archaeologists Unearth 50 Well-preserved Viking Skeletons
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) — The excavation of a large Viking-era burial site in Denmark has unearthed ...
October 9, 2024
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CERN to End Cooperation with Russian Scientists
ZURICH (Reuters) — The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will end cooperation wit...
October 9, 2024
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Japan Institute to Use Domestic Commercial Optical Lattice Clock to Set Japan Standard Time
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