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Fauci: We Need to be Prepared for Another Surge in COVID-19 Cases
Thursday marked the end of the United States’ federal public health emergency for COVID-19, after th...
May 14, 2023
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Scientists Identify Mind-body Nexus in Human Brain
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The relationship between the human mind and body has been a subject that has ...
May 12, 2023
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Genes Indicate Mammoths Had Small Ears, Dry Ear Wax
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new ins...
May 8, 2023
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Study Explains How Primordial Life Survived on ‘Snowball Earth’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Life on our planet faced a stern test during the Cryogenian Period that laste...
May 8, 2023
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NASA Unveils ‘Mars’ Habitat for Year-long Experiments
HOUSTON (AFP-Jiji) — Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand — NASA unveiled last month its ne...
May 8, 2023
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New Image Reveals Violent Events near a Supermassive Black Hole
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Expanding upon the historic first images of black holes, scientists on April ...
May 8, 2023
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Trinity the T. Rex Claws in More Than $6 Million
ZURICH (AFP-Jiji) — A composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton called Trinity, made up of bones from thr...
April 28, 2023
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Research: New Box Jellyfish Species Found in H.K.’s Waters
HONG KONG (Reuters) — A Hong Kong university team said it has discovered a new species of box jellyf...
April 27, 2023
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UNICEF: 67 Million Kids Missed out on Vaccines Due to COVID
UNITED NATIONS (AFP-Jiji) — Some 67 million children partially or fully missed routine vaccines glob...
April 27, 2023
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Mystery Solved: Scientists ID Caribbean Sea Urchin Killer
NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, sea urchins in the Caribbean started getting sick — shedding their spines...
April 26, 2023
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For T. Rex And Kin, It Was a Stiff Upper Lip, Not a Toothy Grin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — They probably did not smile, frown or snarl, but T. rex and its relatives alm...
April 21, 2023
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DNA Study Details Complex Ancestry of Swahili People
A study of centuries-old DNA has deciphered the complex ancestry of coastal East Africa’s Swahili pe...
April 19, 2023
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N.Y.C. Hires 1st ‘Rat Czar’
New York City’s unending war on rats has a new commanding general. Mayor Eric Adams on April 12 ann...
April 19, 2023
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Scientists Explain Alien Comet ‘Oumuamua’s Quirky Acceleration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The quirky comet ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object found visiting our ...
April 19, 2023
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No Freedom on the Horizon for Bangkok ‘Mall Gorilla’
BANGKOK (AFP-Jiji) — Seven stories above a shopfloor hawking cheap perfume and nylon underwear, Thai...
April 19, 2023
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