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Link Related to Canada in some say Physicists detected gravitational waves from four new black-hole mergers
Science | 207107 hits | 7:06 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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At a weekend workshop in Maryland, physicists from the LIGO and Virgo collaboration reported four previously unannounced detections of gravitational waves from merging black holes, including the biggest-known black-hole collision to date, roughly 5 billio
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A Mysterious Seismic Wave Recently Shook Earth, And Scientists Can't Explain It
Science | 208020 hits | 10:08 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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Scientists are at a loss to explain a strange seismic event that shook the planet on November 11 and was picked up by earthquake sensors stationed across the globe.
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Every person was spawned from single pair of adults living up to 200,000 years ago, scientists claim
Science | 207556 hits | 1:55 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Scientists from the Rockefeller University and the University of Basel surveyed genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals and deduced that we sprang from a single pair.
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20761
Replication failures in psychology
Science | 207612 hits | 2:42 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Half of 28 attempted replications failed even under near-ideal conditions.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Dying star could unleash powerful gamma-ray burst in our galaxy
Science | 207405 hits | 6:03 PM on Monday | posted by Hyack
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About 8,000 light-years from Earth lies a star system unlike any astronomers have ever seen. And within that star system lies a ticking bomb - a gamma-ray burst.
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Link Related to Canada in some say An asteroid impact on Greenland left a massive crater under the ice
Science | 207189 hits | 3:08 PM on Saturday | posted by Strutz
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An international team of scientists has found one of the largest impact craters on Earth, buried a kilometre under the ice in Greenland. It's evidence of a catastrophic collision that could have happened at the same time as humans were spreading into Nort
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Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study
Science | 207138 hits | 12:48 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Scientists with UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Princeton University recently walked back a claim made last month that oceans had been heating up dramatically faster than the international scientific community previously thought.
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Link Related to Canada in some say 3 asteroids will fly past Earth on Saturday
Science | 206948 hits | 2:58 PM on Friday | posted by Strutz
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Despite recent headlines like, "NASA asteroid WARNING: Three giant asteroids to pass Earth THIS SATURDAY," there is absolutely no need to worry. Nicole Mortillaro explains why.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Over the volcano
Science | 206955 hits | 10:18 PM on Wednesday | posted by Strutz
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Climate change is shrinking the glacier atop B.C.'s Mount Meager and, says one expert, increasing the risk of a volcanic eruption
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Llamas could save us all from the flu | Popular Science
Science | 206985 hits | 7:21 AM on Wednesday | posted by llama66
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Llamas may be large and fluffy, but their antibodies sure aren’t. And that could be a huge advantage when it comes to fighting human influenza virus.
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World First PET Aerogel Method for Turning Plastic Into Supermaterials Devised
Science | 207147 hits | 10:11 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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National University of Singapore engineers are making a large contribution in the area of sustainability with their rPET-silica aerogels, lightweight materials with high thermal properties produced from plastic bottles.
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20708
This Tiny Arachnid With a Black Bunny Head Is Totally Real, We Kid You Not
Science | 207084 hits | 5:23 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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The natural world is a strange and wonderful place. But sometimes biologists come across something that is just... odd. Really, really odd.
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Link Related to Canada in some say New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN
Science | 207228 hits | 5:42 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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We learn it at high school: Release two objects of different masses in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth's gravity. What we haven't learned, because it hasn't been directly measured in experiments, is whether anti
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20691
Spinal-cord stimulation allows three paralyzed men to walk with assistance
Science | 206914 hits | 5:57 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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“It’s an amazing feeling,” says David Mzee, whose left leg was paralyzed in 2010. Mzee has now regained some ability to walk thanks to a breakthrough in spinal-cord stimulation technology. “I can do a knee extension of my left leg... flex my hip and even
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Link Related to Canada in some say Improving climate models to account for plant behavior yields 'goodish' news
Science | 207626 hits | 9:01 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake i
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Clever crows reveal 'window into the mind'
Science | 207781 hits | 6:26 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.
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The world's oldest shipwreck: 2,400 year old 'Odysseus' ship found at the bottom of the Black Sea
Science | 207724 hits | 11:32 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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The 75ft shipwreck, found 1.3 miles under the surface of the Black Sea, could shed new light on the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus tying himself to a mast to avoid being tempted by sirens.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Three strong earthquakes reported in Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island | CTV News
Science | 206755 hits | 9:40 AM on Monday | posted by llama66
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Three relatively strong earthquakes were recorded Sunday night in the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Yes, there's still hope for the planet, says climate guru Michael Mann
Science | 207532 hits | 7:22 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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In the first issue of our new environmental newsletter, What on Earth?, we talk to climate scientist Michael Mann, explore the world of waste-free takeout and examine plant-based Lego blocks.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is broken
Science | 206909 hits | 9:19 PM on Monday | posted by Strutz
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Discovery of new object supports theory of 'super-Earth' at edge of solar system
Science | 206918 hits | 3:22 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
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Researchers have discovered an object far beyond the orbit of Pluto they believe strengthens the case for a large planet at the outer reaches of our solar system.
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Link Related to Canada in some say
Science | 207301 hits | 6:33 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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The three academics had a very serious mission in all this: To expose what they call the 'identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left'
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Link Related to Canada in some say A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously
Science | 206799 hits | 9:54 AM on Thursday | posted by Freakinoldguy
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Link Related to Canada in some say DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience
Science | 207001 hits | 6:16 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded a $1.3 million contract to an international team of researchers to study quantized inertia, a controversial theory that some physicists dismiss as pseudoscience.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Canadian among trio awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
Science | 207098 hits | 6:37 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Donna Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, became the first woman in 55 years and the third ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with a scientist from the U.S. and another from France for their work in
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Link Related to Canada in some say CERN Scientists Say The LHC Has Confirmed Two New Particles, And Possibly Discovered a Third
Science | 207616 hits | 7:22 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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The Large Hadron Collider is at it again, showing us new wonders in the world of particle physics. Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration have observed two new particles that have never been seen before
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20754
Link Related to Canada in some say Dust storms spotted on Saturn's moon Titan for 1st time
Science | 207536 hits | 6:50 PM on Tuesday | posted by Hyack
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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is a world most similar to our own, with a considerable atmosphere, lakes and weather patterns. Now astronomers have discovered yet another way in which Titan is like our planet: dust storms.
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Science | 207527 hits | 11:51 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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There's a magnet in a secure room in Tokyo. The last time its designers switched it on, it blew open the heavy doors designed to keep it contained.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Electrical implant helps paralysed people to walk again
Science | 207484 hits | 9:22 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Three paralysed patients are able to walk after an electrical patch is fitted to their spinal cords.
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Link Related to Canada in some say
Science | 207359 hits | 11:37 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
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Researchers have discovered a planet orbiting a star just 16 light-years away, the very star that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said his fictional planet orbited.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Octopuses on ecstasy: The party drug leads to eight-armed hugs
Science | 206732 hits | 11:27 PM on Sunday | posted by Hyack
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Octopuses and humans respond very similarly to MDMA, the drug popularly known as ecstasy. But after taking MDMA, they suddenly become much more social, reaching out to be near their fellow octopuses.
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Two Japanese robots are now happily hopping on an asteroid
Science | 207470 hits | 1:09 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Each rover weighs about a kilogram and will bounce across the asteroid's surface.
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Science | 207305 hits | 7:27 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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Shortly after Hurricane Harvey unleashed its flooding on Houston, we wrote about a remarkable observation shared by a scientist on Twitter: the weight of all that floodwater had measurably depressed the Earth’s crust. This week, a more detailed study of t
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Link Related to Canada in some say Why a sudden spike in the temperature of the Great Lakes has scientists worried
Science | 206979 hits | 5:09 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack
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The Great Lakes are getting much hotter according to a professor with the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor. Aaron Fisk explains why temperatures are on the rise and what that means for the Great Lakes and the t
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Closure of NM solar observatory a mystery
Science | 207111 hits | 11:18 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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Authorities are not offering any explanation for sudden move
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3 million prize for discovering pulsars
Science | 207035 hits | 8:08 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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The astronomer was famously excluded from the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Link Related to Canada in some say
Science | 207987 hits | 6:14 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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An experiment at CERN has demonstrated a new way of accelerating electrons to high energies — one that could dramatically shrink the size of future particle accelerators and lower their costs.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Katherine Johnson, Trailblazing NASA Mathematician, Celebrates 100 Trips Around the Sun
Science | 207737 hits | 6:46 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Katherine Johnson — a mathematician at NASAs Langley Research Center in Virginia who helped make human spaceflight possible — celebrated 100 trips around the sun this weekend.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Scientists slowly cast light on celestial mystery known as Steve
Science | 207563 hits | 6:50 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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A new study by University of Calgary scientists concludes glowing, purplish lights spotted in northern skies — and known as Steve — are definitely not aurora.
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Link Related to Canada in some say The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists
Science | 207365 hits | 7:06 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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Bread, like wine, is pivotal in Judeo-Christian rituals. Both products exemplify the use of human ingenuity to re-create what nature provides, and the fermentation they both require must have seemed nothing less than magical to ancient minds.
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First biomarker evidence of DDT-autism link
Science | 207900 hits | 10:51 AM on Thursday | posted by DrCaleb
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A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant women are linked to increased risk for autism in the offspring.
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Link Related to Canada in some say Scientists find way to make mineral which can remove CO2 from atmosphere
Science | 207679 hits | 6:43 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Scientists have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an industrial scale, it opens the door to removing CO2 from the atmosphere for long-term storage, thus countering the global warmi
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Link Related to Canada in some say Scientists Claim to Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
Science | 207263 hits | 5:45 AM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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British oceanographers from the University of Southampton believe the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been busted. After an investigation lasting decades, they’ve concluded that ships are being sucked into the ocean by "rogue waves" over 30 metres in
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Link Related to Canada in some say Scientists Have a Bold New Hypothesis For Why We're The Only Humans Left on Earth
Science | 206797 hits | 7:28 AM on Wednesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Forget language, or smarts, or even our flair for art. Our species represents the last of its kind simply because we've pushed into environments others never dared to tread.
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Humans can judge a person's strength from their aggressive roars
Science | 207942 hits | 1:09 PM on Tuesday | posted by Robair
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Men and women differ at estimating each other's strength from vocalizations, scientists find
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Link Related to Canada in some say LHC accelerates its first 'atoms'
Science | 208044 hits | 8:57 AM on Tuesday | posted by DrCaleb
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Protons might be the Large Hadron Collider's bread and butter, but that doesn't mean it can't crave more exotic tastes from time to time. On Wednesday, 25 July, for the very first time, operators injected not just atomic nuclei but lead "atoms" containing
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Link Related to Canada in some say Carbon 'leak' may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization
Science | 207910 hits | 8:40 AM on Monday | posted by DrCaleb
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The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades to millenia. But the process of locking away greenhouse gas is weakened by activity of the Southern Ocean, so an increase in its activity could
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Link Related to Canada in some say The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
Science | 207663 hits | 12:08 PM on Friday | posted by DrCaleb
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n 2014, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out how to build
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A lake on Mars' New data suggests liquid water lies beneath planet's southern pole
Science | 207166 hits | 8:02 AM on Wednesday | posted by llama66
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For years, astronomers have been looking for liquid water on Mars. Now, a team of Italian scientists believe they've found it.
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A lake on Mars' New data suggests liquid water lies beneath planet's southern pole
Science | 207738 hits | 8:02 AM on Wednesday | posted by llama66
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For years, astronomers have been looking for liquid water on Mars. Now, a team of Italian scientists believe they've found it.

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