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Astrology Was an Important Science for Medieval People
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Vampire bats run on a treadmill to reveal their strange metabolism
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China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked...
Ohio State College of Medicine sets new research funding record
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These Bird Nests Show Signs of an Architectural ‘Culture’
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Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing
A cylinder seal and its design imprinted onto clayFranck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) The world’s oldest known...
Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and flew to...
Keto Diet’s Hidden Power: New Discovery Links Gut Bacteria to Autoimmune Protection
Summary: UC San Francisco researchers have uncovered how the ketogenic diet may help treat autoimmune disorders through a newly discovered...
How the 2024 Election Could Change Access to Education in the U.S. and Influence Global Climate Change Decisions
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Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil
Viruses such as bacteriophages can kill microbes, influencing what happens to the carbon their bodies containnobeastsofierce Science/Alamy Viruses that infect...
The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
“It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said Marcus Spradlin,...
Hubble and Webb Reveal Mysteriously Smooth Disk Around Bright Star Vega
Summary: Using NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, astronomers have conducted an unprecedented study of the debris disk surrounding...
The Virus That Causes Mpox Keeps Getting Better at Spreading in People
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