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The sun is surprisingly quiet right now. What does this mean for the April 8 total solar eclipse?

Despite nearing its most active period, the sun is unusually inactive right now and may not wake up again before the total solar eclipse on Monday (April 8). How will this impact our view of the spectacle?

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Rare magnitude 4.8 and 3.8 earthquakes rock Northeast, including greater New York area

Magnitude 4.8 and 3.8 earthquakes struck New Jersey and rocked the Northeast on Friday (April 5).

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Watch venomous snakes wrestling for wormlike creature in epic tug-of-war battle

First-of-its-kind footage captures two coral snakes fighting over a wormlike creature in western Colombia.

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New York college becomes 1st university with on-campus IBM quantum computer that is 'scientifically useful'

IBM's latest System One quantum computer is based at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and is the 1st IBM quantum machine to be installed at a university campus in the U.S.

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NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system

Voyager 1 has been sending a stream of garbled nonsense since November. Now NASA engineers have identified the fault and found a potential workaround.

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Giant coyote killed in southern Michigan turns out to be a gray wolf — despite the species vanishing from region 100 years ago

A hunter who killed a gray wolf during a legal coyote hunt in Michigan's Lower Peninsula in January said he mistook the animal for a large coyote.

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'Gambling with your life': Experts weigh in on dangers of the Wim Hof method

"What Wim Hof did is about the most dangerous thing you can do when you go into cold water."

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Boulders flung from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could crash into Mars, study predicts

Dozens of boulders dislodged by NASA's asteroid-smashing DART test could hit Mars in the future, new research suggests.

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April 8 total solar eclipse: Everything you need to know

A total solar eclipse will be visible to millions of people in North America today. Here's everything you need to know about where, when, and how to view the 2024 solar eclipse.

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The moon is getting its own time zone, White House memo to NASA reveals

The moon's lower gravity means that time runs slower on its surface. With more moon missions planned, NASA has now been tasked by the White House to create a lunar time zone by 2026.

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Man in critical condition after catching deadly 'B virus' from wild monkeys in Hong Kong

As of April 3, the man infected with B virus was still being treated in the ICU, health officials said.

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Some stars may be 'infected' with black holes that destroy them from within, new study hints

Could dark matter be made of mini black holes that formed in the early universe? One way to find out is to look for missing stars, destroyed by primordial black holes, a new study suggests.

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Underwater robot in Siberia's Lake Baikal reveals hidden mud volcanoes — and an active fault

Video cameras mounted on an autonomous underwater robot captured footage of cracks associated with mud volcanism close to a potentially active fault on the shores of Lake Baikal.

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Bite from toilet rat hospitalizes man in Canada

Doctors believe the man was likely infected with bacteria in the rat's mouth.

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Error-corrected qubits 800 times more reliable after breakthrough, paving the way for 'next level' of quantum computing

Scientists used a technique called 'active syndrome extraction' to build four logical qubits from 30 physical ones and run 14,000 experiments without detecting a single error.

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Co-sleeping with pet dogs — but not cats — linked to poorer sleep in study

A survey-based study finds that people who sleep in the same room as their dogs show worse sleep quality. Cats weren't linked to the same effect.

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H5N1: What to know about the bird flu cases in cows, goats and people

Bird flu in cows and goats has raised alarm in the U.S. To date, four people are thought to have caught the virus from cattle, but the risk to the general public is low.

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Early humans lived on 'Persian plateau' for 20,000 years after leaving Africa, study suggests

After early humans traveled out of Africa 70,000 years ago, they had a "hub" on the so-called Persian plateau, a new study suggests.

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1,700-year-old Roman fort discovered in Germany was built to keep out barbarians

The wall was built by Romans to protect against Germanic tribal attack.

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A war of the rats was raging in North America decades before the Declaration of Independence

Rodent bones from archaeological settlements and shipwrecks in North America reveal that brown rats were introduced earlier than thought and came to dominate black rats within a few decades.

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New mRNA therapy shows promise in treating 'ultrarare' inherited disease

Initial trial results suggest that a new mRNA therapy may be able to safely and effectively treat propionic acidemia, a rare metabolic disorder.

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Dying SpaceX rocket creates eerily-perfect 'dashed' line in new photos. What's going on?

New images show a glowing "dashed" line in the night sky above Arizona after part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fell back to Earth following a double-header launch.

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Taiwan earthquake: 9 dead and dozens trapped after strongest quake in 25 years

The earthquake, which struck on Wednesday morning, has killed nine people, injured more than 900 and left dozens trapped in underground tunnels.

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Person in Texas catches H5N1 bird flu in 1st probable case of cow-to-human transmission

The patient is being treated with an antiviral drug and is believed to have been in contact with dairy cows infected with H5N1 avian influenza.

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Group of 60 ultra-faint stars orbiting the Milky Way could be new type of galaxy never seen before

A new satellite galaxy discovered orbiting the Milky Way is either an incredibly ancient, soon-to-fragment clump of stars or the most dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy ever found.

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