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Paralyzed Man Helped With Brain and Spine Implants
A 40-year-old man whose legs are paralyzed can now climbs and walk following implants in his brain and spinal cord that pair with external devices.
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Photos Captured by World's Most Powerful Telescope Show the Sun Like You've Never Seen It Before
A solar telescope perched on the summit of Haleakalā, the dormant volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui, captured new granular images of the sun, unlike any seen before.
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Out of This World: Hawaii's Solar Telescope Captures Extraordinary New Images of the Sun
A solar telescope perched on the summit of Haleakalā, the dormant volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui, captured new granular images of the sun, unlike any seen before.
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Why Could the East Coast See the Northern Lights?
NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Marvin Gomez explains that a geomagnetic storm made the so-called “northern lights” visible in the Philadelphia region.
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WATCH: Northern Lights Seen Across North America
A solar storm triggered the outburst of auroras in at least 30 states.
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Scientists Announce Birth of 2nd Successful Cloned Horse
Scientists announced the birth of a cloned Przewalski’s horse, born from a cell line frozen for 40 years at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Biodiversity Bank’s Frozen Zoo.
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For the First Time, Scientists Create Mice With Cells From 2 Males
Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab.
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Should the Moon Have a Time Zone? Europe Pushes for ‘Lunar Reference Time'
With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone. This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the...
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Space Telescope Finds Massive Galaxies, Baffling Scientists: ‘We Were Mind-blown'
Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang.
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The Fate of America's Largest Supply of Helium Is Up in the Air
For more than a year, the fate of the Federal Helium Reserve, one of the world’s largest and most dependable suppliers of helium, has been uncertain.
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Buffalo, New York Shakes With Largest Earthquake in Four Decades
The earthquake was widely felt, but no major damage was reported.
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Scientists Want to Bring Dodo Bird Back From Extinction
A company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors.
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Fossil-Hunting as a Family: 9-Year-Old Maryland Girl Finds Giant Megalodon Tooth on Christmas Day
A 9-year-old made a jaw-dropping discovery at Calvert Cliffs State Park in Maryland.
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Fossil-Hunting as a Family: 9-Year-Old Maryland Girl Finds Giant Megalodon Tooth on Christmas Day
Nine-year-old Molly Sampson added something new to her collection of over 400 fossils on Christmas Day: a five-inch, 15-million-year-old megalodon tooth.
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Scientists Seek to Use Pig Livers to Ease Organ Shortage
Scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones, part of a quest to ease the nation’s organ shortage.
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Scientists Discover What Allows Glass Frogs to Become Transparent
A species of glass frogs found in South and Central America has the rare ability to turn on and off its transparent appearance.
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This Is Why People Are Super Excited About the Major Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion
The significant advance in technology has been decades in the making.
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Rare Charles Darwin Signed Manuscript Set to Break Record at Auction
Manuscripts and documents from Darwin, who was the first to theorize evolution, are considered rarities because Darwin was known to revise many of his writings and often times threw out or reused outdated writings as scraps.
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The World is Running Out of Helium, Worrying Doctors
Strange as it sounds, the lighter-than-air element that gives balloons their buoyancy also powers the vital medical diagnostic machines. An MRI can’t function without some 2,000 liters of ultra-cold liquid helium keeping its magnets cool enough to work.
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Rats' Behavior Changed After Human Tissue Was Inserted Into Their Brains, Research Finds
Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later injected that tissue into the brains of newborn rats.