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Apollo-era moonquakes reveal that the moon may be tectonically active

May 13 2019 11:00 AM

Moonquakes recorded decades ago suggest the moon is tectonically active. Knowing more about that activity could help scientists identify where to land future spacecraft.

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A new AI acquired humanlike 'number sense' on its own

May 13 2019 7:00 AM

A new artificial intelligence seems to share our intuitive ability to estimate numbers at a glance.

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Deep-sea fishes' eye chemistry might let them see colors in near darkness

May 10 2019 3:02 PM

An unexpected abundance of proteins for catching dim light evolved independently in three groups of weird deep-sea fishes.

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Only a third of Earth's longest rivers still run free

May 10 2019 7:00 AM

Mapping millions of kilometers of waterways shows that just 37 percent of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometers remain unchained by human activities.

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Ancient South American populations dipped due to an erratic climate

May 09 2019 1:17 PM

Scientists link bouts of intense rainfall and drought around 8,600 to 6,000 years ago to declining numbers of South American hunter-gatherers.

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50 Years Ago

50 years ago, scientists tried to transplant part of a human eye

May 09 2019 7:00 AM

In 1969, a doctor tried and failed to restore a 54-year-old man's vision. Fifty years later, scientists are still struggling to make eye transplants work.

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A gut bacteria transplant may not help you lose weight
May 09 2019 12:05 AM

A small study finds that transplanting gut microbes from a lean person into obese people didn't lead to weight loss, as hoped.

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Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe's gold
May 08 2019 1:02 PM

Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver.

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What a nearby kilonova would look like
May 08 2019 9:16 AM

Physicists imagined what we'd see in the sky if two neutron stars collided just 1,000 light-years from Earth.

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1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions
May 08 2019 6:00 AM

One million of the world's plant and animal species are now under threat of extinction, a new report finds.

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The search for new geologic sources of lithium could power a clean future
May 07 2019 2:09 PM

Futuristic clean-energy visions of electric vehicles are driving the hunt for lithium.

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Mystery Solved
A tiny mystery dinosaur from New Mexico is officially 's cousin
May 07 2019 1:33 PM

A newly identified dinosaur species called Suskityrannus hazelae fills a gap in tyrannosaur lineage.

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A belly full of wriggling worms makes wood beetles better recyclers
May 07 2019 7:00 AM

Common beetles that eat rotten logs chew up more wood when filled with a roundworm larvae, releasing nutrients more quickly back to the forest floor.

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An ancient pouch reveals the hallucinogen stash of an Andes shaman
May 06 2019 3:00 PM

South American shamans in the Andes Mountains carried mind-altering ingredients 1,000 years ago, a study finds.

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LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves
May 06 2019 1:14 PM

Gravitational wave hunters are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Here's what they're hoping to find.

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Medical student evaluations appear riddled with racial and gender biases
May 06 2019 7:00 AM

Women and minorities are more frequently described by personality in medical student evaluations, but men are described by their skills, a study says.

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