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More people are surviving avalanches than decades ago — here's why

A study of avalanche survival data shows that survival rates have increased and rescues are faster, but time is still critical for buried victims.

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Watch live: A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse has begun over Easter Island

The Oct. 2 partial solar eclipse, known as an annular or "ring of fire" eclipse, is about to begin over Easter Island and South America. Watch it for free right here.

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Alien civilizations are probably killing themselves from climate change, bleak study suggests

Astrophysicists estimate that any exponentially growing technological civilization has only 1,000 years until its planet will be too hot to support life.

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James Webb telescope watches ancient supernova replay 3 times — and confirms something is seriously wrong in our understanding of the universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on an ancient supernova, revealing fresh evidence that a crisis in cosmology called the Hubble tension isn't going anywhere soon.

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Monster X-class flare launches massive solar storm towards Earth — and could trigger auroras this weekend

The sun just unleashed one of its largest solar explosions in recent years, temporarily causing a radio blackout on Earth and spitting out a coronal mass ejection that will likely collide with our planet this weekend.

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Flu shots have changed this year — here's why

Unlike past flu shots, flu vaccines for the 2024-2025 season don't contain the "Yamagata lineage" of influenza viruses because evidence suggests that type of flu no longer exists.

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What causes stuttering?

Very little is known about the origins of stuttering, but there are several possible explanations.

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'The simplicity of life just hits you': Watch rare footage of critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla feeding her baby in the wild

Filmmakers captured a mother eastern lowland gorilla nursing her infant for the PBS show "Silverback."

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32 alien planets that really exist

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far.

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In a 1st, DNA analysis reveals identity of captain cannibalized during ill-fated Franklin expedition

Scientists have discovered the identity of a cannibalized victim who sailed on the doomed Northwest Passage expedition of 1845 to 1848.

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'Secret teachings' about ritual Samurai beheading revealed in newly translated Japanese texts

Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period and later.

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32,000-year-old mummified woolly rhino half-eaten by predators unearthed in Siberia

Researchers found the carcass in August 2020 in Russia's Sakha Republic, and the discovery has revealed a never-before-seen characteristic of woolly rhinos: a fatty hump on the animal's back.

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Humanity faces a 'catastrophic' future if we don’t regulate AI, 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio says

Yoshua Bengio played a crucial role in the development of the machine-learning systems we see today. Now, he says that they could pose an existential risk to humanity.

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Can you see Earth's new 'minimoon' with the naked eye?

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

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50 Viking Age burials discovered in Denmark, including a woman in a rare 'Viking wagon'

Finding a Viking Age burial ground of this size is rare, in part because Scandinavian soil doesn't preserve skeletons well.

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Mount Everest is taller than it should be — and a weird river may be to blame

Mount Everest may be "taller than it should be" because of a river "capture" event 89,000 years ago.

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History of quantum computing: 12 key moments that shaped the future of computers

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as scientists strive to create machines that can solve impossible problems.

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What is a quantum processing unit (QPU)?

At the core of a quantum computer is the quantum processor, but these technologies are vastly different from the CPUs found in conventional computers.

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Scythian on horseback: A 2,400-year-old gold sculpture of a warrior heading into battle

The Scythians were a nomadic group known for creating elaborate gilded artworks.

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Are there any planets in the universe that aren't round?

Earth is round, but are there any planets in the universe that aren't?

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Razed city that rebelled against Rome 'remained uninhabited for over 170 years,' excavations reveal

The ancient city was besieged and destroyed in 125 B.C., probably in a dispute over the rights of Roman citizenship.

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Why do leafy green vegetables interact with blood thinners?

Leafy green vegetables can affect the way certain anticoagulant (blood thinning) medications work. But why?

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Space photo of the week: Hot young suns glow blue, white and orange in the Lobster Nebula

The massive star-forming complex known as the Lobster Nebula is part of the biggest infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever created.

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Which animal can have the most babies at one time?

How many offspring an animal can have depends on many factors, such as whether they're aquatic and how they get around.

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Siphonophores: The clonal colonies that can grow longer than a blue whale

Siphonophores are unusual animals made up of individual organisms called "zooids," which each have a distinct function — despite being genetically identical.

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