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Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Identified in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

Like the start of a horror movie, ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of now-melting permafrost: from incredibly preserved extinct megafauna like the…

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Physicists Just Broke The Record For World’s Thinnest Magnet, And It’s Wild

A slice of material just a single atom thick is breaking records. The ultra-thin wafer is a magnet that operates at room temperature, opening up…

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39-Year-Old Becomes First US Patient to Receive ‘Aeson’ Artificial Heart Implant

In the US alone, thousands are currently waiting for organ transplants, and an average of 17 people die each day because they’ve run out of time…

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UK Issues First Ever Extreme Heat Warning as Nation Swelters in Heatwave

Summer 2021 will mark a turning point in how heat is seen by the public and communicated by experts. For the first time in its…

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Rock Fragment Found in Field Turns Out to Be Ancient 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

A small fragment of rock found lying in a field in Gloucestershire in the UK may not have looked like much to the casual passerby,…

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The Bootleg Fire in Oregon Is So Massive It Can Be Seen From Space

The Bootleg Fire that has scorched more than 1,500 square km (600 square miles) in Oregon is so big it can be seen from space. Videos shared…

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Jeff Bezos Launches to Space in Blue Origin’s First Passenger Spaceflight

Jeff Bezos just joined the very small cohort of people who have launched into space and gazed at Earth from above. The richest man on Earth briefly left…

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Jeff Bezos Goes to Space. Day Two: Blastoff

Only a few months ago, Blue Origin, the space company founded and funded by Jeff Bezos, didn’t figure it would be making history on July…

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The Secret Cleaning Power of Bacteria

The centuries-old Medici Chapel in Florence, Italy, was long overdue for a deep cleaning.  Although created to be a spectacular final resting place for members…

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The Constant Threat of Humans Is Turning Fawns Into Heedless Burnouts

Even when we mean them no harm, deer tend to be wary of humans. When we approach, they usually raise their heads, prick their ears…

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