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12 harmless-looking animals sending Americans to the ER every year
Read More: 12 harmless-looking animals sending Americans to the ER every yearThey look cute, familiar or downright boring, yet these creatures quietly help drive a national injury toll that sends Americans…
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Researchers craft radiation shields from volcanic ash
Read More: Researchers craft radiation shields from volcanic ashVolcanic eruptions usually leave behind a trail of ash, disruption, and costly cleanup. In the Philippines, that ash is now…
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Why the polar vortex could be the 2020s most dangerous weather threat
Read More: Why the polar vortex could be the 2020s most dangerous weather threatThe polar vortex has shifted from obscure jargon to a phrase that can shut down schools, snarl air travel and…
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From scarred lungs to diabetes, how COVID may haunt survivors for years
Read More: From scarred lungs to diabetes, how COVID may haunt survivors for yearsCOVID has always been more than a bad bout of flu. As the pandemic’s acute waves recede, a different crisis…
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Turning CO2 into rocket fuel: Elon Musk’s radical plan to save Earth and reach Mars
Read More: Turning CO2 into rocket fuel: Elon Musk’s radical plan to save Earth and reach MarsElon Musk wants to turn one of humanity’s biggest problems into the fuel for its boldest journey. Instead of treating…
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Scientists say the Atlantic Ocean is actually shrinking
Read More: Scientists say the Atlantic Ocean is actually shrinkingThe Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America…
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How accurate is Punxsutawney Phil really? The stats reveal the truth
Read More: How accurate is Punxsutawney Phil really? The stats reveal the truthEvery winter, a sleepy groundhog in western Pennsylvania is treated like a furry supercomputer, hoisted into TV lights to declare…
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Scientists probed life after death, and their findings are unsettling
Read More: Scientists probed life after death, and their findings are unsettlingFor generations, medicine treated death as a clean line: the instant the heart stops, the person is gone. A wave…
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Japan hauls rare earth-rich mud from deep sea in bold test mission
Read More: Japan hauls rare earth-rich mud from deep sea in bold test missionJapan has pulled off a technical and geopolitical milestone, hauling rare earth-rich mud from the deep Pacific seabed in a…
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Scientists say they’ve cracked a key clue to beating this deadly cancer
Read More: Scientists say they’ve cracked a key clue to beating this deadly cancerPancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine’s most unforgiving puzzles, killing most patients within a few years and often…
