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Republicans and Democrats hate the other side more than they love their own side

Study: Republicans and Democrats hate the other side more than they love their own...

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The bitter polarization between the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S. has been on the rise since Newt Gingrich's partisan combat against President...
Study of ancient dog DNA traces canine diversity to the Ice Age

Study of ancient dog DNA traces canine diversity to the Ice Age

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A global study of ancient dog DNA, led by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, University of Oxford, University of Vienna and archaeologists from...
Where were Jupiter and Saturn born

Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?

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New work led by Carnegie's Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine our understanding of the forces...
Graphene based memory resistors show promise for brain based computing

Graphene-based memory resistors show promise for brain-based computing

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As progress in traditional computing slows, new forms of computing are coming to the forefront. At Penn State, a team of engineers is attempting...
An Earth sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way

An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way

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Our galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, has announced...
Study shows comets impacted start of life on earth

Study shows comets impacted start of life on earth

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The Big Bang may have started the universe, but it's likely that littler bangs played a key role in life on Earth, say Albion...
Weak equivalence principle violated in gravitational waves

Weak equivalence principle violated in gravitational waves

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The Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) is a key aspect of classical physics. It states that when particles are in freefall, the trajectories they follow...
Beaches can survive sea level rises as long as they have space to move

Beaches can survive sea-level rises as long as they have space to move

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An international team of coastal scientists has dismissed suggestions that half the world's beaches could become extinct over the course of the 21st century. The...
Researchers examine the decline in average body temperature among healthy adults over the past two decades 1

Researchers examine the decline in average body temperature among healthy adults over the past...

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In the nearly two centuries since German physician Carl Wunderlich established 98.6°F (37 C) as the standard "normal" body temperature, it has been used...
Physicists circumvent centuries old theory to cancel magnetic fields

Physicists circumvent centuries-old theory to cancel magnetic fields

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A team of scientists including two physicists at the University of Sussex has found a way to circumvent a 178-year old theory which means...
Lab on a chip devices could dramatically reduce COVID 19 detection times

Lab-on-a-chip devices could dramatically reduce COVID-19 detection times

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Newly developed biosensor devices linked to smartphones could help medical practitioners dramatically cut down the real-time detection rates in the battle against COVID-19 and...