Science
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Understanding of Earth’s Flowering Plants Blossoms in Genome Study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Flowering plants — from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, appl...
May 2, 2024
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Gigantic Ichthyosaur’s Fossils Found by British Girl, Father
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England, belongs ...
April 26, 2024
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Fossils of Colossal Snake Vasuki Unearthed in India
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the...
April 25, 2024
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Sea Otter Pups Paired with Surrogate Moms
LONG BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) — Every year, around 10 to 15 sea otter pups are found stranded off ...
April 25, 2024
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Japan Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa Wishes to ‘Pass the Baton’; Also Expresses Desire to Help Japanese Astronauts Still on ISS
Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shared his aspirations on Wednesday after returning to Earth from a lo...
April 25, 2024
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Study Delves into Whereabout of Homo Sapiens after Leaving Africa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Our species emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with a migratio...
April 24, 2024
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Japanese Astronauts Landed Tickets to Moon in Win-win Deal; U.S. to Get Lunar Cruiser, Ally against China
TOKYO/WASHINGTON — The recent Japan-U.S. agreement to send two Japanese astronauts to the moon as...
April 20, 2024
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Astronomers Unravel Mysteries around ‘Dragon’s Egg’ Nebula
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Two large stars residing inside a spectacular cloud of gas and dust nickna...
April 18, 2024
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Twisted Magnetic Field Found around Milky Way’s Black Hole
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Astronomers on March 27 announced that they have detected a strong and org...
April 18, 2024
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Govt, U.S. Sign Deal to Send 2 Japanese Astronauts to the Moon; Toyota to Contribute to Artemis Program with Lunar Cruiser
WASHINGTON — Japan and the United States have agreed that two Japanese astronauts will stand on t...
April 11, 2024
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Wide Swath of U.S. to Get Buggy As Two Cicada Broods Intrude
Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised...
April 11, 2024
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Gene Offers Clues on Left-handedness
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Paul McCartney and Justin Bie...
April 11, 2024
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Prostate Cancer Cases to Double over 20 Years
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The number of new prostate cancer cases around the world will more than double...
April 10, 2024
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Scientists Chronicle the Earliest Stages of a Supernova
REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) — About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star...
April 10, 2024
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Researchers Investigate Thousands of Dead Antarctic Penguins for Bird Flu
Has bird flu already killed hundreds, if not thousands of penguins in Antarctica?
...April 10, 2024
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