Science
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First Kiss Was 20 Million Years Ago by Early Primates
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) — Kissing did not begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate a...
November 29, 2025
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Star-eating Black Hole Unleashes Record-setting Energetic Flare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from...
November 20, 2025
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New Mexico Fossils Show Dinosaurs Thriving Just before Annihilation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargant...
November 20, 2025
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‘Factory’ in Cells Found to Prevent Insulin Abnormalities
SENDAI (Jiji Press) — An international research group including Japan has discovered a factory-li...
November 19, 2025
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Biovac Starts Trials on South African Cholera Vaccine
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Researchers and scientists in South Africa on Nov. 11 launched clinical trial...
November 19, 2025
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Aurora Glows Red in Hokkaido Sky
SAPPORO — A low-latitude aurora that turned the northern sky a reddish hue was observed in Hokkai...
November 13, 2025
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Astronomers Observe Rings Forming around Chiron
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diam...
November 12, 2025
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2 Nobel Prize Laureates Express Concern over Decline in Number of Science Papers by Japanese Researchers
KYOTO — Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa, the two Japanese scientists awarded the Nobel Prize...
November 12, 2025
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Researchers in U.S., Japan Offer Insight into Ghostly Neutrinos
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Neutrinos are tiny particles that can pass through everything, rarely inte...
November 8, 2025
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Astronomers Observe Young, Voracious Rogue Planet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar sys...
November 8, 2025
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Hornless Rhino Roamed Canadian High Arctic 23 Million Years Ago
About 23 million years ago, a species of rhinoceros — similar in size to the modern Indian rhino ...
November 8, 2025
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‘Dust Devils’ on Martian Surface Reveal Details of Weather, Climate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled ...
November 8, 2025
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First Clinical Trial of Pig Kidney Transplants Gets Underway
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidney...
November 8, 2025
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Hand, Foot Fossils of Ancient Human Relative Found in Kenya
Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones bel...
October 30, 2025
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Mosquitoes Discovered in Iceland for 1st Time
REYKJAVIK (AFP-Jiji) — Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island natio...
October 29, 2025
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