A powerful geomagnetic storm aimed at Earth could disrupt technology and bring a stunning celestial show as far south as Kentucky between…
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Simple walking hack could boost your heart health, study claims
Walking briskly, and for longer periods of time, could help protect you against heart rhythm abnormalities, and in turn protect you from heart attack, heart disease and stroke.
That’s according to a recent study published in Heart, a title owned by the British Medical Journal.
They found that…
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Scientists trigger Yellowstone ‘earthquakes’ to probe volcano’s depths
Scientists have used artificial ‘earthquakes’ to uncover new details about magma lurking a few thousand metres below Yellowstone, one of the world’s most closely monitored supervolcanoes.
In the new study, researchers from the University of Utah and the University of New Mexico deployed a…
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Hunting a basic building block of universe — Harvard Gazette
No one has ever seen axions. But scientists have theorized their existence as a way to explain some of the biggest questions in particle physics, including the nature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most the mass of the cosmos. Confirming the existence of axions could…
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The secret to bowling the perfect strike, according to scientists
Bowling’s elusive perfect strike may no longer be a matter of intuition and experience.
A team of researchers from premier world institutions…
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Scientists are struggling to get hold of T rex fossils – and the rich are to blame
Scientists have raised concerns about the lack of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils for their research due to wealthy individuals buying them all.
The…
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The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It
It’s often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more remote the possibility of inhabiting them seems. Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in terms of distance, but data shows its conditions are extremely hostile for life.
Despite this, NASA…
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Scientists stunned to capture first video of colossal squid in the deep
Nearly a century after its initial discovery, scientists have captured footage of the colossal squid swimming in its natural deep sea…
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Archaeologists discover secret behind why we keep cats as pets
Cats became human companions for the first time likely following mass cult ritual sacrifices of the furry felines in ancient Egypt, a pair of…
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Live Colossal Squid Filmed in World First : ScienceAlert
The colossal squid, a mysterious creature lurking in the Antarctic abyss, has finally made a cameo, a cohort of scientists say.
You may have heard of the giant squid, which is famous from mariners’ legends and for its epic battles with sperm whales.
The colossal squid is even bigger and more…
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