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Brown, now 21 years old, was convicted of shooting and killing his soon-to-be stepmother and her unborn child in 2009. His conviction was overturned this July.
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A perpetually unctuous, self-lubricating latex developed by a team of scientists in Boston could boost the use of condoms, they reported Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Protective sheaths made with the specially treated membrane...
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"That one tweet has now been made the litmus test of my reputation over almost two decades of public service."
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In the faraway realms at the bottom of the Earth, Antarctic scientists have unexpectedly recorded bizarre drone-like sounds. After burying 34 seismic monitors in the snow atop the Ross Ice Shelf in 2014 — which is a massive Texas-sized slab of ice th...
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is betting that transparency on her tax returns and academic records will help beat Donald Trump.
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Earth is in a danger of a crisis in biodiversity unlike any in the planet's history, according to a new study.
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Stephen Hawking was a physicist and cosmologist whose power lay in his ability to communicate complex theories to the masses. In his latest book, the first published since his death in March, he goes broad. Hawking’s Brief Answers to the Big Qu...
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From Venice and the tower of Pisa to the medieval city of Rhodes, dozens of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean basin are deeply threatened by rising sea levels, researchers warned Tuesday. All but two of 49 UN-recognised icons of human...
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and technology entrepreneur, has said he hopes to see the solar system populated by one trillion people. Mr Bezos, who recently accepted $500m from the US military to help develop his Blue Origin space flight project, said...
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Former UN chief Ban Ki-Moon warned Tuesday the world is at the "point of no return" on climate change as he launched an international commission on responses to global warming. The Global Commission on Adaptation is endorsed by 17 countries includin...
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Scientists claim to have discovered a new underwater world off the Tasmanian coast made up of volcanic mountain peaks that tower about 3km from the seafloor.