50 thousand year old lonar lake turns pink colour overnight
Lonar lake, formed some 50,000 years after an meteorite crashed into Earth, is located 500 kilometres (310 miles) from India’s
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How Dubai eliminated the locust swarms spotted recently
Residents in parts of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, especially Al Ain, recently spotted swarms of a pest not commonly seen
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UK universities suffer worst-ever rankings in world league table
A triple threat of Brexit, tightening budgets and unchecked expansion has seen the rankings of UK universities in an international
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Ground Penetrating Radar Reveals Entire Ancient Roman City
A preliminary map of Falerii Novi, an ancient Roman city located 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Rome, has been
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What Should We Worry About When It Comes to Genetically Modified Mosquitoes?
On May 1, the company Oxitec received an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release millions
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Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says
Preliminary evidence from the earliest outbreaks indicated the virus could spread even if people didn’t have symptoms. But the WHO
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Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days
The find could be a big clue about the nature of fast radio bursts. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are
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New research suggests doctors are treating COVID-19 patients wrongly
Doctors have suggested, which could help explain why COVID-19 patients have experienced heart attacks, blood clots, and other ranging symptoms
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“Black Nitrogen” Scientists Solve a Puzzle of Periodic Table
Bayreuth researchers discover new high-pressure material and solve a puzzle of the periodic table. In the periodic table of elements
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Newly identified gene reduces pollen number of plants
At first sight a high number of male gametes seems beneficial for the competition among males to produce more offspring.
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Earth Forest Aren’t Just Shrinking, They’re Getting Younger and it’s a problem
Altogether, it’s an annual chunk of greenery roughly the size of the United Kingdom. Even when these sprawls of land
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False-negative COVID-19 tests: Challenges and implications
As progress has been made on this front, concern has shifted to testing accuracy, predominantly with antibody tests, which are
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‘Dune’ Is One of the Most Influential Sci-Fi Books Ever
Author Matthew Kressel recently re-read Dune for the first time in more than a decade. “I was worried,” Kressel says
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This May Have Been Earth’s First ever Land Animal
After carefully dating the earliest bug fossils ever discovered, scientists now think an extinct genus of myriapod, a relative of
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Scientists Just Created Artificial Red Blood Cells That May Be Even Better Than The Real Thing
It’s now blood’s turn for a boost, with researchers finding a new way to mimic the tissue that carries oxygen.
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