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Scientists Have Solved One of History's Weirdest Leonardo da Vinci Mysteries
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Scientists Have Solved One of History's Weirdest Leonardo da Vinci Mysteries
Scientists may have solved one of the great Leonardo da Vinci painting mysteries – why the glass orb in the Salvator Mundi painting (dated to around 1500 CE) shows no signs of the refraction and reflection of light that might be expected.
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Scientists Put Tiny 3D Glasses on Cuttlefish to Find Out How They See
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Scientists Put Tiny 3D Glasses on Cuttlefish to Find Out How They See
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Scientists Put Tiny 3D Glasses on Cuttlefish to Find Out How They See
Adorable cephalopods have been made even more adorable with tiny 3D glasses. But scientists weren't trying to get the cuttlefish to enjoy Jaws 3-D; rather, the stereoscopic red-and-blue eyewear is designed to help us understand how the animals' 3D
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Scientists Find Mechanism That Extends Worm Lifespans by 500 Percent
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Scientists Find Mechanism That Extends Worm Lifespans by 500 Percent
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Scientists Find Mechanism That Extends Worm Lifespans by 500 Percent
A few simple genetic changes is all it takes to prolong a worm's life span by 500 percent, a new study has found.
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This Weird Echidna Is The Result of One of The Best Fire Survival Tactics We've Heard
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This Weird Echidna Is The Result of One of The Best Fire Survival Tactics We've Heard
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This Weird Echidna Is The Result of One of The Best Fire Survival Tactics We've Heard
Echidna's are one of Australia's cutest and weirdest animals. The spiky creatures lay eggs even though they're mammals, they eat termites but they're not related to anteaters, and they evolved from an ancestor shared with the duck-billed platypus.
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There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific, And We Now Know What Lives There
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There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific, And We Now Know What Lives There
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There's a 'Desert' in The Middle of The Pacific, And We Now Know What Lives There
In the centre of the South Pacific, there's a place as far away from land as anyone on Earth could ever hope to get. The ocean is different there.
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Scientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells
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Scientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells
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Scientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells
In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have turned into skin and heart tissue within living, breathing animals.
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New Super-Light Form of 'Plastic' Gold Is 18-Carat But Weighs Up to 10 Times Less
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New Super-Light Form of 'Plastic' Gold Is 18-Carat But Weighs Up to 10 Times Less
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New Super-Light Form of 'Plastic' Gold Is 18-Carat But Weighs Up to 10 Times Less
It might look like any old 18-carat nugget of gold, but it hides a secret. Produced in the lab, this shiny disc weighs just a fraction of what it should, and has other interesting properties to boot.
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The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn
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The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn
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The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn
After analyzing data from the 1950s through 2019, an international team of scientists determined that the average temperature of the world's oceans in 2019 was 0.075 degrees Celsius (0.135 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1981–2010 average.
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Strange Objects Found at The Galactic Centre Are Like Nothing Else in The Milky Way
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Strange Objects Found at The Galactic Centre Are Like Nothing Else in The Milky Way
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Strange Objects Found at The Galactic Centre Are Like Nothing Else in The Milky Way
There's something really weird in the centre of the Milky Way.
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Mars Orbiter Just Sent Back an Incredible Photo of The Red Planet's Icy North Pole
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Mars Orbiter Just Sent Back an Incredible Photo of The Red Planet's Icy North Pole
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Mars Orbiter Just Sent Back an Incredible Photo of The Red Planet's Icy North Pole
A new image from the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows how beautiful, and desolate, Mars can appear. It also highlights some of the natural process that shape the planet's surface.
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Scientists Create a Strange 'Living Concrete' That Heals Itself When Damaged
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Scientists Create a Strange 'Living Concrete' That Heals Itself When Damaged
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Scientists Create a Strange 'Living Concrete' That Heals Itself When Damaged
Scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder have created what The New York Times calls a "living concrete", teeming with photosynthetic bacteria, that can grow itself and regenerate itself – much like a living organ
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A New Facility Is Set to Produce Oxygen From Moon Dust at an Unprecedented Scale
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A New Facility Is Set to Produce Oxygen From Moon Dust at an Unprecedented Scale
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A New Facility Is Set to Produce Oxygen From Moon Dust at an Unprecedented Scale
Although the Moon has no atmosphere, it has loads of oxygen, all mixed up with the dust on the lunar surface in the form of oxides.
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Remarkable New T-Cell Discovery Can Kill Several Cancer Types in The Lab
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Remarkable New T-Cell Discovery Can Kill Several Cancer Types in The Lab
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Remarkable New T-Cell Discovery Can Kill Several Cancer Types in The Lab
The discovery of a new kind of immune cell receptor could pave the way for a new type of T-cell cancer therapy that can attack a diverse range of cancers in human patients without requiring tailored treatment.
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Here's What Scientists Know So Far About The 'Novel Coronavirus' From China
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Here's What Scientists Know So Far About The 'Novel Coronavirus' From China
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Here's What Scientists Know So Far About The 'Novel Coronavirus' From China
A new SARS-like virus has killed six people in China and infected nearly 300 others.
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Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
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Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
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Snakes Are The Likely Source of China's Deadly Coronavirus. Here's Why
Snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.
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Chang'e 4 Team Just Released Beyond Amazing New Pics of Our Moon's Far Side
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Chang'e 4 Team Just Released Beyond Amazing New Pics of Our Moon's Far Side
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Chang'e 4 Team Just Released Beyond Amazing New Pics of Our Moon's Far Side
It's been just over a year since China's Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover landed on the far side of the Moon. All this time, they've been studying the Von Kármán crater and sharing the results through a solitary link - the Queqiao relay satellit
The world’s largest radio telescope is now fully operational.
Located and built in China, the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was making discoveries even before hitting its full stride.
It’s also the world’s most sensitive telescope and some believe could even lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life.
Located and built in China, the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was making discoveries even before hitting its full stride.
It’s also the world’s most sensitive telescope and some believe could even lead to the detection of extraterrestrial life.
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The 'Doomsday Clock' Just Jumped Closer to Midnight Than Ever. Guess Why
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The 'Doomsday Clock' Just Jumped Closer to Midnight Than Ever. Guess Why
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The 'Doomsday Clock' Just Jumped Closer to Midnight Than Ever. Guess Why
The Doomsday Clock has jumped closer to midnight than it's ever been in its 73-year history, indicating looming apocalyptic threats.
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Scientists Recreate The Voice of a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Priest's Mummy
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Scientists Recreate The Voice of a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Priest's Mummy
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Scientists Recreate The Voice of a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Priest's Mummy
If the dead could talk, they'd probably have a lot to say. Still, it's pretty darn tough when you can only make one sound and you've lost your tongue.