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PARIS (Reuters) - Usain Bolt on Wednesday sprinted through thin air and sipped champagne floating on his back as he enjoyed near zero-gravity conditions in the back of an aircraft performing stomach-lurching ...
science / science - 5 years ago
In order to fight the 'epidemic' of youth vaping
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Hurricane Florence is poised to hit the mid-Atlantic coast and the Carolinas this week, and satellite images of the storm are nothing short of terrifying. Astronauts at the International Space Station, for example, struggled to fit the enormous storm into one frame. "We could only capture her...
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The European Union will deploy 10,000 armed border guards to tackle unlawful migration by 2020, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced in a speech on Wednesday.
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This is the basic concept behind a technology that's been garnering a lot of interest over the past several years. Called CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat, this genetic editing technology offers hope that one day doctors will be able to easily correc...
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LONDON (AP) — The scientists at the renowned Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are trying to correct an injustice: They don't believe fungus gets the respect it deserves.
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A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap Elizabeth Smart in 2002 will be freed from prison more than five years earlier than expected, a surprise decision that Smart called “incomprehensible” on Tuesday.
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The death toll in a suicide bombing among a group of people protesting a local police commander in eastern Afghanistan has risen to 68
science / science - 5 years ago
Global warming means truly& global& warming. The atmosphere, the oceans, and the ground are all warming. As a result, ice is melting, seas are rising,& storms are getting more severe, and& droughts are getting worse. But these things are not happening in isolation. The tricky thing about the climate...
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Former state Sen. Molly Kelly and executive Councilor Chris Pappas won Democratic nominations for keys posts in the New Hampshire primary
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"Fear” portrays a White House mired in dysfunction
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Two Korean War dead have been identified from remains turned over to the U.S. by North Korea
science / science - 5 years ago
It's a powerful show of growing military ties between Moscow and Beijing
science / science - 5 years ago
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is appealing to all parties directly and indirectly involved in Syria to avoid a "bloodbath" in the last major rebel-held stronghold in Idlib
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“The best job we did was Puerto Rico, but no one would understand that"