Severe COVID-19 may shrink cancer tumors, early data suggest

Immune cells produced during severe COVID-19 infection may shrink tumors. The unexpected mechanism offers a new therapeutic possibility for advanced and treatment-resistant cancers. | Continue reading


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The best value rowing machine we've ever tested now has a $101 saving in this early Black Friday deal

The budget-friendly ProForm 750R rowing machine is even better value than ever with this price cut. | Continue reading


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35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers pulled from permafrost in Siberia

Researchers have analyzed mummified remains pulled from Siberia's permafrost in 2020 and determined they belong to a 3-week-old saber-toothed kitten that died at least 35,000 years ago. | Continue reading


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'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments of an ancient rainforest that covered the South Pole during the Cretaceous peri … | Continue reading


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Save $110 on these amazing stargazing binoculars at Amazon

Explore the skies for less with the Celestron SkyMaster Pro 20x80 at their lowest price since February — now $210 ahead of Black Friday | Continue reading


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Mass child sacrifices in 15th-century Mexico were a desperate attempt to appease rain god and end devastating drought

The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god during a devastating drought, researchers have revealed. | Continue reading


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World's biggest coral — so big it can be seen from space — discovered by chance off Solomon Islands

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the Solomon Islands. | Continue reading


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'It invites us to reconsider our notion of shadow': Laser beams can actually cast their own shadows, scientists discover

After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, scientists decided to experiment in real life — and found that laser beams can indeed cast a shadow under the right conditions. | Continue reading


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El Ojo: The mysterious floating island in Argentina's swampland that looks like a perfectly round eye

Argentina's El Ojo is said to harbor UFOs and the ghosts of ancient deities, but as far as scientists can tell, the island is simply a fluke of nature that formed through erosion and water currents. | Continue reading


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Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies .

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead stars known as magnetars, a new study suggests. | Continue reading


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'Unique and extreme': James Webb telescope detects possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet. | Continue reading


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Rare gladiator-shaped knife handle discovered by Hadrian's Wall

It's rare to find gladiator memorabilia from Roman Britain, but archaeologists by Hadrian's Wall have just found a 2,000-year-old knife handle depicting a left-handed fighter. | Continue reading


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Declassified spy satellite images reveal 1,400-year-old battle site in Iraq that set off the Muslim conquest

Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of al-Qadisiyyah. | Continue reading


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Rare diseases — Medical conditions you may never have heard of before

Rare diseases — Medical conditions you may never have heard of before | Continue reading


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'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for how physics may work on large scales, according to a team of astronomers. | Continue reading


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James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious 'red monster' galaxies so large they shouldn't exist

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're so large they could rewrite the laws of galactic evolution. | Continue reading


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It would be easier to find aliens in a parallel universe than in our own, new multiverse study claims

A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical "multiverse" could have higher chances of containing extraterrestrial life than our universe. | Continue reading


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Teen sickened with Canada's first human case of bird flu is in critical condition — and the source remains a mystery

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren't sure how the youth was exposed. | Continue reading


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'Edge of chaos' neuroscience theory could lead to superfast computing chips that behave like superconductors

By tapping into the enigmatic theory of how neurons transmit signals, scientists have proven they can one day build computer chips with near-zero electrical resistance. | Continue reading


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3D map reveals our solar system's local bubble has an 'escape tunnel'

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble. | Continue reading


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Necrotizing fasciitis: The 'flesh-eating' infection that bores holes in the body

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, life-threatening illness caused by bacteria that aggressively attack the soft tissue of the body. | Continue reading


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We've been wrong about Uranus for nearly 40 years, new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun. | Continue reading


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Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how.

A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising better protection for astronauts on long missions. | Continue reading


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Diagnostic dilemma — Unusual case reports from the medical literature

Discover all things chemical with the latest chemistry news, features and articles from Live Science. | Continue reading


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12,000-year-old, doughnut-shaped pebbles may be early evidence of the wheel

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier. | Continue reading


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An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. | Continue reading


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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?

Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006. So why is its status still so controversial today? | Continue reading


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24 brain networks kick in when you watch movies, study finds

Researchers created the most detailed map of the brain's functional networks using data from people watching movies, including "Inception," "Home Alone" and "Erin Brokovich." | Continue reading


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Mammoth quiz: Test your knowledge of the ice age beasts

Most of us are familiar with the mammoths in the "Ice Age" movies, but how much do you really know about these creatures? Find out by taking our quiz. | Continue reading


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Smarter dogs have smaller brains, surprising study reveals

A study looking at the brain size of different breeds relative to their skulls reveals how humans have altered the species through artificial selection. | Continue reading


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'Medieval' King Arthur site is 4,000 years older than we thought

The discovery suggests the mysterious "King Arthur's Hall" in England is older than Stonehenge. | Continue reading


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Glowing mystery sea slug that feeds like a Venus fly trap captured in deep sea footage for 1st time

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a glowing sea slug with a huge hood that helps the creature feed like a Venus fly trap. | Continue reading


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Solar maximum news, features and articles

Solar maximum is the most active phase of the sun's roughly 11-year solar cycle, which occurs when our home star's magnetic field weakens and eventually flips completely. During this explosive peak, dark sunspots cover the solar surface and spit out more frequent and intense sola … | Continue reading


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IBM's newest 156-qubit quantum chip can run 50 times faster than its predecessor — equipping it for scientific research

When combined with Qiskit software tools, the 156-qubit R2 Heron quantum processor can perform 5,000 two-qubit gate operations — double the previous best — meaning it's ready for complex quantum computations, IBM scientists say. | Continue reading


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Researchers spot rare 'triple-ring' galaxy that defies explanation

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic taxonomy. | Continue reading


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'Missing link' found in ancient rocks of Colorado show that Snowball Earth really happened

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of years ago. | Continue reading


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Diagnostic dilemma: A man's brain started bleeding after a dentist appointment

A man's brain started bleeding just after he got teeth pulled at the dentist's office. Why? | Continue reading


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Global carbon emissions reach new record high in 2024, with no end in sight, scientists say

There is a 50% chance that global warming will consistently exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next six years, according to a new report. | Continue reading


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Should you shop on Prime Day, or wait for Black Friday?

Prime Day sees some pretty tempting deals and discounts on science gifts, but is it worth waiting for Black Friday to potentially save even more? | Continue reading


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Canada reports 1st local case of H5 bird flu

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working to confirm the diagnosis. | Continue reading


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Extremely rare 'failed supernova' may have erased a star from the night sky without a trace

An artist's rendering of a black hole | Continue reading


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Our ancestor Lucy may have used tools more than 3 million years ago

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the Homo genus arose. | Continue reading


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Leonid meteor shower 2024: How to spot 'shooting stars' and 'fireballs' over the US this week

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies. | Continue reading


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Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests

The clonal quaking aspen known as Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old. | Continue reading


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2,600-year-old Celtic wooden burial chamber of 'outstanding scientific importance' uncovered by archaeologists in Germany

The discovery of an impeccably preserved Celtic burial chamber in southern Germany is a "stroke of luck for archaeology," scientists say. | Continue reading


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Vampire bats have a really strange way of getting energy, scientists discover after putting them on treadmills

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the animals on tiny treadmills. | Continue reading


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How is paper made from trees?

Plant-based paper has been used for thousands of years, but exactly how is it created from trees? | Continue reading


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Plastic-eating mealworms native to Africa discovered

Larvae of the Kenyan lesser mealworm found to feast on polystyrene then break it down in their guts. | Continue reading


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