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Study finds link between handedness, mathematical skills

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This study found there is a moderate, yet significant, correlation between handedness and mathematical skill, report researchers. Credit: © Julija Sapic / Fotolia A link between...
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Engineers design a robotic gripper for cleaning up space debris

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Close up of the robotic gripper made by the Cutkosky lab at Stanford University. The gripper is designed to grab objects in zero gravity...
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Human-caused warming likely led to recent streak of record-breaking temperatures

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Global warming. Credit: © Francesco Scatena / Fotolia It is "extremely unlikely" 2014, 2015 and 2016 would have been the warmest consecutive years on record without...
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Dancing electrons lose the race

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Electron (green) emitted from a tungsten atom in the second atomic layer of the semiconductor tungsten diselenide (WSe2). The electron starts its trajectory with...
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Detecting cosmic rays from a galaxy far, far away

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At the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, cosmic rays have been detected from far off galaxies. Credit: Pierre Auger Observatory In an article published today in...
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One in four girls is depressed at age 14

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Depression. Credit: © stokkete / Fotolia New research shows a quarter of girls (24%) and one in 10 boys (9%) are depressed at age 14. ...
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Florida flood risk study identifies priorities for property buyouts

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Concentrations of repetitive loss properties in Florida are shown in this map. Researchers identified sites where government buyouts and remediation projects can achieve social,...
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Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction

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Coral bleaching. Credit: © Richard Carey / Fotolia In the past 540 million years, the Earth has endured five mass extinction events, each involving processes that...
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Broad swath of US deemed environmentally suitable for mosquitoes that transmit disease

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CDC has updated the estimated range maps for Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes by using a model that predicts possible geographic ranges for...
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New NASA radar technique finds lost lunar spacecraft

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DSS-14 is NASA's 70-meter (230-foot) antenna located at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California. It is known as the "Mars Antenna" as...
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Unique type of object discovered in our solar system

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This artist's impression shows the binary asteroid 288P, located in the main asteroid belt between the planets Mars and Jupiter. The object is unique...