Canadian government department Health Canada has officially added artificial trans fats, also known as trans-unsaturated fatty acids or trans fatty acids to its "List of Contaminants and Oth...
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At 12:45 AM ET, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, SpaceX' Falcon 9 rocket launched carrying the Canadian Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite. As announced by Telesat global sat...
A team of five researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a camera that uses terahertz radiation to read the content of a closed book. Terahertz radiation is one of the bands of electro...
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Researchers from MIT have created a special device that emits WiFi-like radio signals capable of detecting objects and movements through solid objects like walls. This new project started in 2013...
6-year-old Virsaviya Borun from Russia is one of the few people in the world diagnosed with a rather puzzling condition that is documented just once in one million births and that is known to med...
A lizard's tail helps it keep its balance when getting about its daily routine, so it's no wonder these creatures have evolved to quickly regenerate this appendage of theirs should they ever come...
Months ago, on July 14, NASA's New Horizons probe successfully completed a flyby of the Pluto system on the outskirts of our Solar System. The spacecraft is now a long way from the dwarf planet...
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Stories about mummies, ghosts or blood-thirsty vampires can make for a seriously creepy Halloween, there's no doubt about it. The thing is that, as it turns out, there's more to these ghastly cre...
This past Thursday, public health officials in Oregon confirmed a case of bubonic plague in a 16-year-old girl in Crook County. The girl was admitted to a hospital in the city of Bend late last w...
A couple of weeks ago, on October 14, NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and came within about 1,142 miles (1,839 kilometers) of the orb's surface...
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In a new study, researchers with the Geological Society of America present evidence that T. rex, a.k.a. the king of dinosaurs, as some like to call this ancient beast, was probably a cannibal. ...
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Come Saturday, October 31 - that's right, just in time for Halloween - an asteroid of no mean size will buzz by our planet. NASA scientists are calling it the Great Pumpkin and say it measures ar...
It's that time of the year again. Trees are dropping their leaves and, soon enough, they'll be completely bare. Nothing to worry about, it's just how nature works when autumn comes around. The ...
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A new space image delivered by the Hubble telescope and released by NASA just the other day brings into focus a faraway spiral galaxy by the name of Messier 94. The galaxy was first noticed and...
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It will probably be a while until scientists at long last get around to creating serums that can turn mere mortals into superheroes, but at least they're trying. For one thing, researchers at t...
Comet Lovejoy, more officially known as C/2014 Q2, was first observed by an Australian astronomer by the name of Terry Lovejoy back in November 2011. Then, earlier this year, scientists got to ...
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In a series of lab experiments, researchers with the University of Michigan found that a compound extracted from bananas could successfully fight HIV, the virus causing AIDS, as well as other pat...
Earlier this week, NASA's New Horizons probe, now exploring the outskirts of our Solar System, beamed back a view of Kerberos, one of the moons orbiting dwarf planet Pluto. The image, released by...
A recent report in the journal Visual Diagnosis of Emergency Medicine details the case of a young man in Maine whose bladder burst all of a sudden when he plunged into a local lake. The man, wh...
It was in July 1969 that NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon. It's been decades since this historic moment, and as it t...
Having exhumed and analyzed the remains of a couple hundred individuals who lived during the Middle Ages in Germany and Denmark, a team of researchers found evidence that, in those days, rich peo...
It's happening, folks. Scientists are officially scouting for signs of alien lifeforms that could be thriving somewhere near a star about 1,500 light-years away, and they might, in fact, be on to...
Earlier this week, a hiker in Norway happened upon a Viking sword that researchers say dates back to about 1,200 years ago. It is understood that the man, Gøran Olsen, found the centuries-old ...
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In a new study in the Journal of Experimental Biology, wildlife researchers with Australia's La Trobe University explain that, as weird as this might seem, the fact is that crocodiles more often ...
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This coming Saturday, October 24, Henry Aldridge and Son will be auctioning off a decades-old photo said to show the very iceberg that hit the Titanic in April 1912. The auction house says the...
With the help of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a pair of stars that are so close to one another the...
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Just the other day, researchers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced the discovery of a millennia-old Medusa head carved in marble. The ancient sculpture was found in Turkey, at the ...
About a week ago, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study showing that, between the years 1997 and 2013, the number of American teens using marijuana more than doubled....
In a study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology this October 21, a team of researchers with the University of Utah propose that the shape and the anatomy of our hands evolved to their...
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NASA's Kepler space telescope was launched into Earth's orbit in March 2009. It's since been browsing our home galaxy, the Milky Way, for signs of planets similar to our own. Recently, the tele...