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Understanding Iran’s elite military unit
US strikes two Syrian facilities after attacks by Iran-backed militia U.S. President Joe Biden ordered strikes on two facilities in ...
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Chinese scientists’ new map of the Milky Way turns the tables on cosmic radiation theories
Kazumasa Kawata, of the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray Research in Kashiwa, Japan, said the findings would “give ...
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8 billion-year-old radio signal found by astronomers — with experts ‘precisely’ knowing where it came from
News By Alyssa Guzman Published Oct. 21, 2023, 7:17 p.m. ET Astronomers have discovered an eight billion-year-old radio signal. The ...
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Striking science images from the Nikon Small World Photo 2023 contest
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14,300-year-old tree rings reveal catastrophic warning for modern humans?
A groundbreaking discovery by an international team of scientists has revealed a colossal spike in radiocarbon levels approximately 14,300 years ...
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Japan could be next in line to land on moon
Last month, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a lunar exploration spacecraft from its Tanegashima Space Center. Japan’s success this ...
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Weight loss drugs Wegovy, Ozempic may be linked to stomach paralysis
Blockbuster weight loss and diabetes drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic may be associated with an increased risk of three rare, ...
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A climate researcher risks losing university post for refusing to fly home
CNN — Climate researcher Dr. Gianluca Grimalda says that he risks losing his post at the Kiel Institute for the ...
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Webb telescope finds ‘Jupiter-sized’ planets floating in space
The James Webb Space Telescope has found Jupiter-sized “planets that are free-floating and do not orbit a star”. These objects ...
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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for work on mRNA Covid vaccines by Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman
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