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Pterosaurs May Have Had Brightly Colored Feathers, Exquisite Fossil Reveals
Long before the first birds flapped and fluttered, pterosaurs took to the skies. These leathery-winged reptiles, their bodies coated with…
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AIs Spot Drones with Help from a Fly Eye
In December 2018 thousands of holiday travelers were stranded at London’s Gatwick Airport because of reports of drones flying nearby.…
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How to Make Smart Decisions About COVID Risk-Benefit
As COVID cases declined across the U.S. in recent months and mask mandates were lifted, more people returned to restaurants,…
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In a First, Wind Generation Tops Coal and Nuclear Power for a Day
Wind was the second-largest source of power generation in the country on March 29, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported…
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Why I’m choosing dark matter over dark energy – for now at least
Dark matter is my focus these days, but the intractable problems of dark energy and cosmic acceleration are still on…
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Shoulder growth may slow during human development to make birth easier
CT scans of humans, chimpanzees and macaques reveal that human collarbones slow their growth rate in the final months of…
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Particle physics could be rewritten after shock W boson measurement
By Alex Wilkins The Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab, Illinois, pictured in 1992 GRANGER/Alamy A new measurement of a fundamental…
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Anti-ageing technique makes skin cells act 30 years younger
Skin cells have been exposed to molecules that reverse their development but still retain their function, creating a kind of…
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Watch a foot-tickling machine discover the most ticklish spot on feet
The TickleFoot device stimulates the most ticklish spots of the human foot – for women it was found to be…
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5,000 Exoplanets! NASA Confirms a Cosmic Milestone
Our tally of strange new worlds just reached 5,000. Astronomers have added the 5,000th alien world to the NASA Exoplanet Archive,…
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