Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2019
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The city of Dayton, Ohio, is telling residents their water is OK to use again without being boiled first.
Environment
Feb 15, 2019
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French wine makers may be "selling like crazy" to Britain as their clients stock up ahead of Brexit, but they say the country's looming departure from the European Union promises nothing but problems.
Environment
Feb 15, 2019
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A US investigation into privacy violations by Facebook could result in a record fine running to billions of dollars, media reports said Friday.
Internet
Feb 15, 2019
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Only two northern white rhinos exist in the world: both are female and neither can bear calves. But scientists have not given up hope of saving the species from extinction.
Ecology
Feb 15, 2019
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Laminitis—a complex, common and often devastating disease—is the second biggest killer of domestic horses. Now a body of important research on it has been compiled and shared online for equine vets and others to access.
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2019
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Researchers at Duke University have discovered that a perfect absorber of electromagnetic waves they described in a 2017 paper can easily be tweaked into a sort of "time-reversed laser" known as a coherent perfect absorber ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 15, 2019
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has picked Danish economist and environmentalist Inger Andersen to be the new UN environment chief, turning the page on a scandal over expenses that rocked the UN agency, according to ...
Environment
Feb 15, 2019
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Today sees the launch of an innovative Citizen Science Project by Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility.The project uses a crowdsourcing model to call on people of all ages around the world ...
Ecology
Feb 15, 2019
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The evolution of planet Earth and the emergence of life during its first half-billion years are inextricably linked, with a series of planetwide transformations—formation of the ocean, evolution of the atmosphere, and the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2019
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