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Supermassive black hole caught shredding star http://t.co/I63RBO3h
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Scientists confirm there was a space hurricane above the North Pole in 2014. It lasted for about eight hours and rained electrons instead of water.
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Scientists think the ancient flying kangaroo-sized turkeys roosted in trees
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Stanford virtual reality experiment let people experience life a a cow #FlashbackFriday
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The U.S. now has the Most Confirmed Covid-19 Coronavirus Cases in the World - U.S. 81, 425 - China 81, 285 - Italy 80, 539 (source: BNO News)
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NASA has released new visualizations of a black hole that includes multiple animations
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Sheep with huge matted coat found wandering in Australian forest gets sheared
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Meet Baarack, a wild sheep rescued from a forest in Australia, yielding fleece weighing more than 35 kilograms
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The Doomsday Clock has been moved forward by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight.
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Researchers say the Hypatia stone found in southwest Egypt contains mineral compounds "that are not known to occur on Earth, elsewhere in our solar system, or in known meteorites or comets."
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Photo of hungry Nautiluses eating chicken http://t.co/zcDxH4gG (via @PaulGAllen )
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Hubble Image Reveals Near-Perfect Symmetry of Galaxy NGC 2985
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NASA releases video showing a year of life on Earth as viewed by the EPIC camera
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The Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 winners have been announced. Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty were named the overall winners for their deep space photograph, Andromeda, Unexpected.
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NASA shares new images of Saturn's moon Pan. The moon's shape has been compared to a ravioli, fried egg & empanada
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Chinese researchers inserted a tardigrade gene into human embryonic stem cells. The researchers claim the modified cells showed "supernatural resistance against radiation"
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Astronomers find three potentially habitable planets 40 light-years from Earth
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Tree climbing goats help argan trees disperse seeds
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Chandrayaan-3 moon rover Pragyan found traces of sulfur in the soil on the lunar south pole. The rover uses a laser to vaporize soil samples and analyze emitted light wavelengths.
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China unveils elevated bus that passes over cars on the highway
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Scientists have discovered fossilized dinosaur brain tissue for the first time.
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Scientists discover a new type of fire tornado called the blue whirl
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Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope. The image is of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of galaxy Messier 87.
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Study finds common swift can fly for nearly ten consecutive months without ever landing
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Report: The Maya civilization used chocolate as money
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Telipogon diabolicus: Newly discovered orchid species resembles devil's head
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NASA describes exoplanet Kepler-452b as Earth's bigger, older cousin http://t.co/pI2MBwjKz7
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Fisherman kept world's largest pearl under his bed for ten years. It weighs 75 pounds
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Researchers find most people prefer to start with the ears when eating a chocolate bunny
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Researchers envision four climate change scenarios for civilization-planet systems
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New moth species named after President-elect Donald J. Trump
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Lake on Saturn's moon Titan may be over 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep #krakenmare
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Scientists develop transparent wood by removing lignin
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World's most sensitive dark matter detector comes up empty after completing its search
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The Scale of the Universe 2 - shows how big and small objects in our Universe are http://t.co/nMnFX31q
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Quasar J0529-4351 is described as the Most Luminous Object Ever Observed - Accretion disc seven light-years in diameter - powered by a black hole growing in mass by one Sun per day
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Purple orb discovered on ocean floor in Channel Islands could be a new nudibranch species
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Scientists discover the first species of giant centipede that can swim and walk underwater
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Astronomers and citizen scientists discover oldest known planet-forming disk
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Scientists at the University of Leeds have developed an AI system that can detect patients at risk of having a heart attack in the next 12 months based on eye scans. They say it has an accuracy of between 70% and 80% in the release
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Dinosaur discovered in China had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird
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Stephen Hawking warns AI "may replace humans altogether" or kill humans unintentionally
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New species of scorpionfish discovered near Caribbean island of Curacao
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Scientists exploring a remote region of Antarctica have discovered fossil evidence of a 260 million-year-old forest
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Fossil of new pterosaur species named Allkauren koi discovered in South America
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Frankenstein Galaxy UGC 1382 is much larger than previously thought
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured two new views of NGC 604, a star-forming region of the Triangulum galaxy.
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Scientists find brain is directly connected to the immune system through vessels previously thought not to exist http://t.co/Q80OgKxGGh
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Researchers discovered new snake species named the Ghost Snake in Madagascar
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Purple stubby squid spotted off the coast of California by E/V Nautilus
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Planet found in habitable zone around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun
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Doomsday Clock moved 30 seconds closer to midnight because of Donald Trump
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New plant species discovered on Japan's Yakushima island
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Arboreal lifestyle makes sloths slow-moving creatures say scientists
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Anger a crow and it will remember your face for over five years and warn its friends about you. http://bit.ly/jKEl3O
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Newly discovered Mirrorbellies may communicate using light that shines from their bellies
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New analysis of data from NASA's 1976 Viking mission suggests life was found on Mars http://t.co/Aek7rrk9
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Klingon newt and Rainbow snake among new species discovered in Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia
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Silver Boa snake species discovered on uninhabited island in the southern Bahamas
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Tiny luminous creatures found living on mollusks in the southern Red Sea
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Google's new headphones, called Pixel Buds, provide real-time translation in 40 languages
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Mercedes-Benz unveils self-driving city bus called Future Bus
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Potentially habitable rocky worlds orbiting ultracool dwarf star 40 light years from Earth
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Two year study finds squirrels organize their nut stashes by variety, quality and possibly even preference
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Khinjaria acuta: Ancient giant sea lizard had powerful jaws and dagger-like teeth. Dr. Nick Longrich says it is "yet another terrifying predatory mosasaur from Morocco."
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Report: Massive cockroach genome includes code for neutralizing toxins, regrowing limbs and a thousand genes for detecting food and chemicals
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SpaceX to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon in 2018
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Galapagos finches caught in act of becoming new species
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Archaeologists discover a carved stone crocodile at an ancient site in Oaxaca, Mexico
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Newly discovered golden frog named after El Dorado, the legendary lost city of gold
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It Rains Liquid Iron on Exoplanet WASP-76b
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Researchers capture footage of the Ruby Seadragon in the wild for the first time
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New Zoantharian species discovered near Japanese island of Okinawa
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Bird spends hours admiring itself: Bush stone-curlew at Queensland University stares at its reflection in glass door
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Researchers build salamander robot with 3D-printed bones and motorized joints
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TRAPPIST-1: NASA telescope finds seven Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone around a single star
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Briny ice lake discovered beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars. Discovered using MARSIS instrument, a low-frequency radar on the Mars Express spacecraft
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NASA unveils Mars Rover concept vehicle
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New tarantula species named after author Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Strange ancient creature dubbed Kite Runner carried its young in tethered capsules
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Recently discovered Dragonfly 44 galaxy consists almost entirely of dark matter
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Astronomers think Planet 9 was originally from another solar system before our sun stole it
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Hubble Telescope images the Bubble Nebula
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New dragonfly species discovered in mountainous border region between Cambodia and Laos
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Injected oxygen microparticles could keep people alive after they stop breathing http://t.co/OPmFQtRb
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FoldiMate aims to sell robotic laundry folding machine by 2018 with $700 to $850 price tag
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Fossil of giant extinct burrowing bat found in New Zealand. The bat has been named Vulcanops jennyworthyae
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The Sorting Hat Spider makes list of the Top 10 New Species for 2017
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Scientists have determined that zebrafish want to hang out with moving 3-D robotic models of themselves
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Google's DeepMind AI learns how to walk
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captures best images yet of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Crazy Bosses: Study found 4% of senior managers displayed psychopathic tendencies, compared to 1% of people overall http://t.co/yZLfVxFe
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Large alligator gar fish to be used in battle against invasive Asian carp
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Animal Rescue: This cute baby otter was rescued from a canal in Arizona
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Director of Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) says its possible a mothership is releasing small probes in our solar system in paper co-authored by Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department
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MIT Technology Review on Deep Learning AI: No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Roger Penrose says evidence for an earlier universe before the Big Bang can be observed in black holes
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