Ice Shelf Bigger Than Manhattan Could Be About To Break From Antarctica
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Nansen Ice Shelf and the crack, taken by Landsat 8 on December 16, 2015. USGS
Antarctic scientists have documented ice shelves disintegrating from the southern continent at an unprecedente...
$250,000 Shark-Spotting Drone Debuts In Australia
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A great white, one of the types of shark spotted off the coast of New South Wales.
Although the chance of dying...
Gene That Allowed Life To Evolve Beyond Bacterial Slime Identified
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An ancestral gene coding for the synthesis of enzymes called kinases played a vital role in the evolution of all complex life...
$1bn Bank Heist Foiled By A Rather Hilarious Mistake
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When there’s billions of dollars on the table and you’ve been snooping around the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, make sure you...
Watch Physicist Brian Greene Explain Gravitational Waves To Stephen Colbert
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene makes an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where the two banter about the historic discovery of gravitational...
This Week in Science (Feb. 21 – 28)
This is a collection of the 10 best and most popular stories from science and technology over the past 7 days. Scroll down and...
Scientists Create Synthetic Bacteria With Only 473 Genes
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A team, led by synthetic biologists at the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, California, have come up with an answer...
Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Record Low For This Time Of Year
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The arctic is warming much quicker than the rest of the planet.
Last year it was reported that the Arctic is warming twice as...
Monkey Takes Man’s GoPro And Goes On A Selfie Rampage
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As a general rule, camera equipment and small monkeys don’t mix.
Case in point: The footage shot at Wildlife World Zoo in Phoenix,...
Newly Formed Neurons Help Brain “Catalog Memories In Time”
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The human brain generates 1,400 new neurons per day, but their function had until now remained unknown.
Sometimes it can feel every day is...