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Large Hadron Collider atom smasher collides particles at record energies
Protons zoom around the 17-mile underground loop of the Large Hadron Collider below Switzerland and France, and then crash into each other, dissolving into new and sometimes exotic particles.
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Humongous fuzzy dinosaur unearthed in China (+video)
An ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, Yutyrannus huali weighed 3,000 pounds and was covered in a downy fuzz.
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Human ancestors used fire a million years ago, finds study
Ash and a charred bone unearthed in South Africa indicates that, even a million years ago, humanity's forebears had harnessed fire.
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Global warming began in oceans 135 years ago, suggests study
A study of temperature recordings from the 1870s suggests that the oceans began warming more than 100 years ago, much earlier than previously believed.
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Fossil discovery could unravel mystery of how humans learned to walk (+video)
The discovery of foot bone fossils from an early hominin may help unlock the mystery of how humans learned to walk upright.
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Man-made noise can affect plants, as well as animals
A new study concludes that noise from humans can have an effect on plant life, in addition to wildlife.
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Scientists can see around corners using lasers and computers
Ordinarily it's impossible to see an object around a corner, but researchers have devised a system of pulsing lasers and computer algorithms that allow them to see the seemingly unseeable.
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Retest of neutrino speed suggests Einstein was right, after all (+video)
An attempt to replicate experiments last year in which neutrinos were measured moving faster than light has clocked the ethereal particles traveling within the cosmic speed limit, suggesting that Einstein's special theory of relativity still holds up.
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Rejected fruit flies use alcohol to cope
Fruit flies that haven't mated recently are more likely to ingest alcohol, according to a recent study.
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Tiny particles send a message for the first time (+video)
Scientists have used neutrinos to send a message. This may be the first step toward a new form of communication.
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Study: Psychic ability doesn't hold up (+video)
A new study supports skeptics of psychic abilities. Researchers failed to find evidence to support claims that extrasensory perception is real.
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Possible new human species unearthed in China
Scientists in China have found what may be a new species of human. Fossils show a group of people with similarities to and differences from modern humans.
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Tiny dinosaur sported shimmery black coat, decorative streamers, four wings
The newly discovered fossil of Microraptor lived about 130 million years ago, during the early Cretaceous period, in what is now northeastern China.
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Are scientists close to uncovering the Higgs boson?
Researchers analyzing data from Fermilab's now-defunct Tevatron particle accelerator say that they may have glimpsed evidence of the elusive Higgs boson, the so-called God particle thought to be responsible for giving all other particles mass.
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T. rex bite: Tyrannosaurus easily out-chomped alligators, but not ancient sharks
T. rex bite: The Tyrannosaurus rex had the strongest bite of any terrestrial animal to live on Earth. Now scientists have found that T. rex had a stronger bite than was previously understood.
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Humongous prehistoric fleas fed on dinosaurs, couldn't jump
Scientists have found fossils of giant, ancient fleas in China. Their large size, five to ten times that of today's fleas, likely helped them to feed on dinosaurs. But they lacked the leg strength of today's fleas.
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T. rex bite much worse than previously thought (+video)
The Tyrannosaurus rex had a very strong bite; probably stronger than any other land animal. The force of its jaw would have been similar to that of a medium sized- elephant sitting on you.
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World's tallest penguin used to live in New Zealand, fossils show
The tallest penguin species ever known used to call the South Pacific island nation home.
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Could global warming turn us all into hobbits?
A study of prehistoric horses has found that rising temperatures tend to make mammals shrink. Does that apply to humans too?
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Climate change may have caused Mayan civilization's collapse
For unknown reasons, the ancient Mayan civilization then disintegrated more than a millennium ago. The number of people declined catastrophically to a fraction of the empire's former size, and the ruins of its great cities are now largely overgrown by jungle.
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Men not on verge of extinction, report scientists
A new study suggests that the Y chromosome, previously thought to be evolving into oblivion, will persist.
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Will men go extinct? New research says it's unlikely.
A recent study from the Whitehead Institute indicates that the male Y chromosome is unlikely to disappear, as was previously thought.
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Elephants in Arabia? Scientists find prehistoric footprints.
The fossilized gigantic footprints detected in the Arabian dessert belong to a herd of elephants, scientists say. The seven-million-year-old discovery marks the world’s oldest evidence on how these ancient mammals lived.
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How scientists brought 30,000-year-old flower back to life
In what is being hailed as the oldest successful regeneration of a living plant, researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences used cells from a 30,000-year-old plant buried in permafrost to create living seedlings.
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Documents reveal Koch-funded group's plot to undermine climate science
Documents leaked from the 'free-market' Heartland Institute reveal payments to prominent climate-change deniers, a plan to create a fossil-fuel-friendly curriculum for Kindergartners, and efforts to 'keep opposing voices' out of the media.
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