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Hidden slippery clay on seafloor may have worsened devastating 2011 tsunami in Japan

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make such a devastating tsunami.

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Mineral sunscreen leaves an annoying white cast on skin — this new formula could change that

Scientists have developed a new approach to formulating mineral sunscreen that could prevent it from leaving a white cast on the skin.

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Vanishing lakes in Tibet may have triggered earthquakes by awakening faults in Earth's crust

Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link between climate change and earthquakes

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Hidden beauty of Zimbabwe's 2.5 billion-year-old 'geological marvel' revealed in striking astronaut photo — Earth from space

A 2010 astronaut photo shows off the astonishing scale of the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, which stretches over 340 miles (550 kilometers). The lengthy structure, which is not actually a dike, is full of extremely valuable minerals that fuel a massive mining industry.

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Tumaco-Tolita Seated Elder: This 2,000-year-old depiction of an aged man with wrinkles struck fear in people because it held 'the power'

Tumaco-Tolita artists were known for their intense realism in sculpting clay representations of humans.

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Vaccine denial sets Americans up for more chronic illness

Despite well-established links between pathogens and chronic illness, the U.S. government continues to weaken public health measures to treat and prevent infectious diseases — a strategy that will ultimately make Americans even sicker.

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Snakes keep evolving into cannibals — here's what scientists think is going on

A review of over 500 reports of cannibalistic behavior in snakes finds it's appeared multiple times in different evolutionary lineages, leading researchers to hypothesize it's beneficial for snakes under certain circumstances.

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Lucky few to see 'ring of fire' solar eclipse over Antarctica on Feb. 17

This month's new moon brings an annular (or "ring of fire") solar eclipse, but it will only be visible from parts of Antarctica.

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Deepest views from James Webb and Chandra telescopes reveal a monster object that defies theory — Space photo of the week

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

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How long do most planets last?

Planets are born, and they can also "die." So what's the lifespan of a typical planet?

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Ancient rock art depicting hunters and geometric shapes discovered in Egypt's Sinai Desert — and it spans a period of 10,000 years

A rock shelter with rock art and inscriptions spanning millennia has been discovered in Egypt.

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In a first, study links maternal genes to risk of pregnancy loss

For the first time, scientists have identified genetic variants that increase the risk of aneuploidy, in which cells have an abnormal number of chromosomes. Aneuploidy in egg cells can lead to miscarriage.

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'Impossible' mantle earthquakes actually occur all over the world, study finds

Researchers were once unsure whether mantle earthquakes existed. Now they have a global map of this mysterious phenomenon.

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What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today?

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

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MIT designs computing component that uses waste heat 'as a form of information'

Proof of concept uses passive components to redirect heat across a chip, allowing temperature patterns to be used for data processing.

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Newly visible, city-size 'green comet' will soon be ejected into interstellar space — just like 3I/ATLAS

Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But experts predict it will eventually be thrown out of the solar system forever, just like the "alien" comet 3I/ATLAS.

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Did modern humans wipe out the Neanderthals? New evidence may finally provide answers.

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

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'It's telling us there's something big going on': Unprecedented spike in atmospheric methane during the COVID-19 pandemic has a troubling explanation

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the atmosphere temporarily lost its ability to break down methane, leading to a huge spike in the greenhouse gas.

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Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein's relativity to its toughest test yet — and proves him right again

A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

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Canada could remove 5 times its annual carbon emissions by planting trees on edge of boreal forest, study finds

Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times Canada's annual emissions.

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Archaeopteryx, one of the world's first proto birds, has a set of weird, never-before-seen features, new study reveals

Iconic transition species between dinosaurs and birds may have had weird 'teeth' on roof of its mouth and a highly mobile tongue, study reveals

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NASA telescope spots the building blocks for life spewing out of comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its closest approach to Earth in December.

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Subterranean tunnel, possibly used for medieval cult rituals, discovered in Stone Age tomb in Germany

A tunnel system discovered in a Stone Age tomb in Germany suggests medieval people created hiding places for their cultic rituals.

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China banned all fishing to save the Yangtze River. This 'nuclear' option appears to be working.

Decades of overfishing and habitat degradation led to huge declines in freshwater biodiversity in China's longest river, but there are signs of recovery after a fishing ban was implemented in 2021.

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The earliest black holes in the universe may still be with us, surprising study claims

The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints. Instead, they fed on the energy of the ancient cosmos to grow supermassive.

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