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More than 275 million never-before-seen gene variants uncovered in US population
Scientists have uncovered more than 275 million previously unknown gene variants in the U.S. population, thanks to an ongoing project…
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Seattle’s massive fault may result from oceanic crust ‘unzipping itself’ 55 million years ago
A hazardous fault line that runs south of downtown Seattle may have formed when the edge of the North American…
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Lost ‘Atlantis’ continent off Australia may have been home for half a million humans 70,000 years ago
About 70,000 years ago, a vast swathe of land that’s now submerged off the coast of Australia could once have…
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Mummified skin from creature that lived 290 million years ago is older than the dinosaurs
Crocodile-like skin belonging to an early species of reptile is the oldest fossilized skin ever discovered, dating back almost 290…
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Humans now kill 80 million sharks per year, 25 million of which are threatened species
An estimated 80 million sharks are dying in fisheries each year despite global regulations aimed at protecting them from finning,…
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Earliest known parasitic fungus discovered in fossilized plant frozen in time 400 million years ago
The oldest disease-causing fungus ever found has been discovered within a museum’s fossil collections. Estimated to be 407 million years…
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Earth receives laser-beam message from 10 million miles away in new NASA experiment
A NASA laser just fired successfully in a deep-space test. On Nov. 14, NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an…
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Flesh-eating ‘killer’ lampreys that lived 160 million years ago unearthed in China
These Jurassic lampreys have the most powerful “biting structures” among known fossil lampreys and suggest an ancestral flesh-eating habit of…
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World’s smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works
The nanophotonic electron accelerator consists of a microchip that houses a tiny acceleration tube that is just millimeters long. This…
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Moon is 40 million years older than we thought, tiny crystals from Apollo mission confirm
A section of the moon with Earth distant in the background. Crystals from the lunar surface can be used to…
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