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Far out: NASA space telescope’s 1st cosmic view goes deep
Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Mon...
July 12, 2022
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Miners find rare mummified baby woolly mammoth
OTTAWA (AFP-Jiji) — Miners in the Klondike gold fields of Canada’s far north have made a rare discov...
July 6, 2022
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Meet ‘zombie star’ that survived supernova, emerged brighter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only ...
July 6, 2022
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Beachgoers become guardians of fossils
SANTIAGO (Reuters) — While strolling along Los Tubos beach on the central Chilean coast, a group of ...
July 6, 2022
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Researchers unveil 340-year-old shipwreck
LONDON (Reuters) — A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago w...
July 6, 2022
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Bulldogs bear twice the health risk
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — English bulldogs are twice as likely to be afflicted with common health problems ...
July 6, 2022
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EU proposes ban on flavored heated tobacco products
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Commission proposed on June 29 to ban the sale in the EU of flavor...
July 6, 2022
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Chinese spacecraft acquires images of entire planet of Mars
BEIJING (Reuters) — An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, i...
July 6, 2022
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Scientists devise robot finger with ‘human skin’
A robotic finger covered with artificial skin tissue cultured from living cells has been successfull...
June 23, 2022
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Black Death origin mystery solved … 675 yrs later
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — A deadly pandemic with mysterious origins: it might sound like a modern headline,...
June 22, 2022
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Samples suggest high water content on Ryugu
Samples from the Ryugu asteroid that were collected by the Hayabusa2 space probe contain traces of w...
June 10, 2022
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Japan on high alert as monkeypox infections spread overseas
Japan has raised its vigilance for monkeypox following a spike in infections in European countries a...
June 10, 2022
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No progress in restarting nuclear plants despite calls from LDP, business community
Despite calls from the Liberal Democratic Party and the business community to hasten the restart of ...
June 8, 2022
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Amino acids discovered in samples taken from asteroid
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Amino acids, the building blocks of life on Earth, have been discovered in sand...
June 6, 2022
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Treated water release deemed safe but local entities need convincing
Nuclear regulators have endorsed a plan to release treated radioactive water stored at the crippled ...
May 19, 2022
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