Science
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Birds of Paradise Glow on Their Mating Parade
Elaborate poses, tufts of feathers, flamboyant shuffles along an immaculate forest floor — male birds-of-paradise have many ways to woo…
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Gold jewelry with leopard and tiger designs unearthed in 2,400-year-old burial in Kazakhstan
Striking gold jewelry and weapons made by Sarmatian nomads have been unearthed from three burial mounds in Kazakhstan that date…
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NASA makes emergency call as odds of ‘city-killing’ asteroid striking Earth increase
Will it help stave off a potential Armageddon? NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to…
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Let’s learn about chocolate
cacao: The name of a tropical tree and of the tree’s seeds (from which chocolate is made). chemical: A substance…
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Common food allergens are target of teen engineer’s device
allergen: A substance that causes an allergic reaction. artificial intelligence: A type of knowledge-based decision-making exhibited by machines or computers.…
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Truly autonomous AI is on the horizon
Researchers have developed a new AI algorithm, called Torque Clustering, that is much closer to natural intelligence than current methods.…
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Ancient cannibal tribe celebrated battle victory by eating enemies’ brains
Eating human brains might seem relegated to zombie flicks, but a new study found that European warriors did just that…
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Scientists Detect Shape-Shifting Along Earth’s Solid Inner Core
The inner core at the center of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles wide, may…
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A man volunteered to get brain implants for depression. Hear his story
Meet Jon Nelson. He’s a dad, a husband, a coach and a professional who works in marketing. But underneath it…
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Astronomers catch black holes ‘cooking’ their own meals in bizarre, endless feeding cycle
Black holes’ ravenous, incessant feeding is fueled partly by the powerful jets of gas these gluttonous monsters blast into space,…
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