When You Stare At A Screen For Too Long, This Is What Happens
It's surprisingly easy to spend most of your waking hours in front of a screen. So what is all this time staring into the digital abyss really doing to our health?
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Why Coronavirus Treatments Might Not Be Affordable In The U.S.
Live Science reports that during a February 25, 2020 news conference, the CDC ominously acknowledged that the possibility of coronavirus spreading throughout the U.S. wasn't a matter of "if" but "when." Since then, "when" has become now. And it may cost us in more ways than one.
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The Truth About The Real 'Warp Drive'
It's the ultimate handwavey, science fiction trope. Engage the warp drive and you can move people through time and space faster than you can pronounce intergalactic mycelium network. And it's looking more possible than ever.
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The Surprising Trick To Keeping Mosquitos Out Of Your Yard
Mosquitos: they're nature's living pub darts. They're syringes that can have babies. They are, to put it bluntly, just the worst. But there's a natural solution.
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The Calmest Cat Breed In The World
Everyone has heard stories of cats that engage in a dawn-to-dusk, search-and-destroy cry for help that involves shredding furniture, draperies, or anything on a counter top. What's the calmest breed of cat?
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Scientists Claim To Discover Extraterrestrial Protein In Meteorite
Turns out, scientists don't even have to go into outer space to search for extraterrestrial life. Sometimes outer space just comes to them in the form of meteorites.
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Doctors Report First Known Case Of Person Who Urinates Alcohol
Talk about a microbrew. We've all had a light beer that tastes like pee, but how about pee that tastes like light beer? According to Science Alert, a woman in Pittsburgh, PA has been identified as the first known human to naturally produce ethyl alcohol in their urine.
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Visionary Physicist Freeman Dyson Dead At 96
Freeman Dyson -- physicist, mathematician, but also something of a philosopher, pondering such topics as the origin of life itself -- died February 28, 2020, at the age of 96.
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The Weakest Dog Breed In The World
We mean weak in terms of being low-key, requiring little or no exercise, maybe even docile. This is the weakest dog breed in the world.
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Astronomers Detect Biggest Known Explosion In The Universe
Astronomers have spotted a cosmic blast massive enough to make Jerry Bruckheimer blush. The explosion was so big, that researchers are saying it dwarfs every previously observed explosion in size and scale.
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The Truth About Earth's New Mini Moon
The NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey is credited for spotting a new orbiter during routine NEO observations on February 15th. Kacper Wierzchos of the Catalina Sky Survey tweeted the announcement, "Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3."
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The Truth About The Science Of Invisibility
If you could turn yourself invisible, would you use your powers for good or evil? Be honest. Thanks to science, you may one day have to consider this question seriously.
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The Truth About Antarctica's 'Blood Snow'
If the first images of record-breaking glacial melt in Antarctica didn't send you running for your climate comfort blanket, how about these latest images of bloody ice shelves calving into unforgiving seas?
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The Truth About The Pentagon's New Atomic Moon Rocket
Acting on a new directive to extend the orbital reach of satellites tens of thousands of miles in the direction of the moon, the shadowy R&D arm of the Pentagon is hard at work on a "nuclear thermal propulsion" engine.
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Discovery Of Space Time 'Ripples' May Explain Why The Universe Exists
A new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters may have the solution to science's most angst-ridden puzzle -- why the universe exists at all.
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What Happens To Your Body When You Drink Liquid Nitrogen?
Liquid nitrogen should really be called "liquid frostbite." But it can be the stuff of medical nightmares when unsafely added to a drink.
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Is Growing A Beard Bad For Your Skin?
You'd think that a beard would be a bacteria sanctuary, and the longer, the better for bacteria. Shaving must be healthy. Not necessarily.
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Armageddon: Scientists Develop System To Defend Against Killer Asteroids
In the last few decades we've gotten pretty good at tracking many of these potential doomsday rocks, but scientists remain at odds over what we could actually do to alter our fate if we discovered one on a collision course with Earth. Now we're working on a defense system.
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Siberian Worms Frozen For 42,000 Years Brought To Life
Scientists have found nematodes in Siberian permafrost, frozen for 42,000 years... and they've brought them back to life.
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The Reason You Shouldn't Sleep With Your Smartphone
Smartphones have become a staple of our every waking moment. But we mustn't take them to bed with us. Hitting the mattress with phone in hand is a great way to mess up your whole brain.
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New Hydrogen-Boron Reactor May Solve Fusion Problem
startup called HB11, which consists of scientists who came together at the University of New South Wales, is in the process of applying patents for a brand new method of fusion, and has so far received them in at least China, Japan and the good, old U.S. of A.
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Scientists Discovered An Animal That Doesn't Breathe
In a discovery which undoubtedly turns the zoological sciences upside down, scientists have discovered an animal which does not breathe.
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The Reason Cockroaches Like Crawling Into People's Ears
Fiends, vermin, cockroaches: lend them your ears! Why would they bury themselves in your earholes?
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African Killifish Could Hold Key To Stopping Human Aging
Though immortality is a long way off, scientists are at least hopeful enough to talk about the concept of stopping human aging, thanks to a strange aquatic animal known as the turquoise killifish.
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Paternal Marijuana Use Can Affect Offspring, Study Shows
In news that will have well-meaning but stressed out expectant dads in Washington, Nevada, and Oregon saying "aw, fiddlesticks," it turns out that a father's marijuana use before conception can result in brain abnormalities in their offspring.
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The Reason You Should Never Lift A Starfish Out Of Water
Lots of colors, lots of iterations. It's no wonder that they attract the attention of human beachgoers. And not just because of Patrick on SpongeBob SquarePants. So the question arises: Should you take a starfish/sea star out of its salty, watery habitat?
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The Reptile People Always Mistake For A Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are one of the first things you learn about. If you walk into a third grade classroom, the cool kids can tell you all about their favorite dinosaurs. And the flying dinosaurs, of course, are pterodactyls. There's just one problem. This is the reptile people always mistake for a dinosaur.
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