Science
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Enigmatic Jurassic Reptile Looks like Mix of Snake, Lizard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of di...
October 24, 2025
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Study Shows How Solar Eclipse Made Some Birds Sing like New Day Dawned
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse traversed a wide swathe of North A...
October 24, 2025
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Walking Backward Can Add to Its Mental, Physical Benefits
Here’s a simple way to switch up your walking routine, according to experts: try going backward.<...
October 22, 2025
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More Evidence Suggests Saturn’s Enceladus Could Support Life
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A fresh look at data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has uncovered ...
October 17, 2025
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Comet Lemmon Making Closest Approach to Earth, To Be Seen between Oct. 23 and Nov. 2
Comet Lemmon, discovered in January, is approaching Earth, giving skywatchers the rare opportunit...
October 17, 2025
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Moon’s Farside Interior May Be Cooler Than Nearside
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Handout via ReutersThe moon’s nearside, left, and farside, right, put together ...
October 17, 2025
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Tracing ‘Green Sahara’ in Chad’s Northern Desert
N’DJAMENA (AFP-Jiji) — A cloud of dust escapes from an excavation site in the sand of Chad’s arid...
October 17, 2025
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Dolphin-like Fossil Found in Peru Dates Back Millions of Years
LIMA (Reuters) — Paleontologists in Peru unveiled last month the fossilized skeleton of an ancien...
October 15, 2025
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Swedish Embassy Hosts Tokyo Reception to Honor This Year’s Japanese Nobel Laureates
The two Japanese winners of this year’s Nobel prizes attended a reception hosted by the Swedish E...
October 14, 2025
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Scientists Create Human Eggs Using Skin Cells
Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human eggs in a step toward helping wom...
October 10, 2025
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Australian Scientists Grapple with ‘Despicable’ Butterfly Heist
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Almost eight decades after Colin Wyatt stole and then vandalized thousands of...
October 10, 2025
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Amber from Ecuador Reveals Insects from the Age of Dinosaurs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of w...
October 9, 2025
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Nobel Laureate Kitagawa Says ‘Mountain of Work’ Still Left, After Crowd Greets His Arrival at University
KYOTO — Susumu Kitagawa, a distinguished professor at Kyoto University, was welcomed by about 100...
October 9, 2025
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MOFs Starting to See Real-World Use, Years after Paper by Nobel Prize Winner
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are starting to see real-world use both in Japan and aboard, than...
October 9, 2025
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Innovative Ideas ‘Get Bashed,’ Says Kitagawa; Nobel Laureate Once Faced Intense Criticism for Work That Eventually Earned Him the Prize
A watershed moment in Susumu Kitagawa’s research, which recently culminated in the Kyoto Universi...
October 9, 2025
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