WASHINGTON (AP) — Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier […]
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Close flybys of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons and the most volcanically active world in our solar system, have revealed a lava lake and a towering feature called “Steeple Mountain” on the moon’s alien surface. NASA’s
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Some of the largest U.S. banks are being asked by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to provide details about nondisclosure agreements for employees in an effort to protect potential whistleblowers, according to a report by Bloomberg. Source link
A young girl in the U.K. is in cancer remission thanks to her sister’s lifesaving bone marrow donation. Ruby Leaning, 10, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia after collapsing on the school playground in Jan. 2020, according to SWNS, the British news service. The rare blood cancer required an urgent bone marrow transplant to keep
When the US Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into a bird flu outbreak in cattle, scientists eagerly searched a well-known platform used globally to share the genetic sequences of viruses. The sequences weren’t there. As of Tuesday morning, they still aren’t. Researchers looking to
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Extremely busy with an eye on the future. That’s a short and sweet assessment of Rocket Lab’s founder and CEO, Peter Beck. In the pantheon of private space groups, Rocket Lab is a roaring success, and Beck wants to keep it that way. Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab‘s quest to pioneer affordable
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Roughly $27.5 trillion of debt issued by the U.S. Treasury is in the hands of the public, more than twice as much as 10 years ago and over six times as much as 20 years ago. This fact may be one the biggest reasons why bond-market volatility has picked up, according to strategists and traders.
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By By Stelios Misinas CRETE, Greece (Reuters) – “Exercise, exercise, exercise”, read an emergency text message which alerted people on the island of Crete of a mock earthquake measuring 7.2 off the city of Heraklion. Tourists rushed to evacuate the hotel, while workers in vests offered first aid to an injured woman in a tent
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Nine months into the U.S. launch of the first drug proven to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s, Eisai and Biogen’s Leqembi is facing an unexpected hurdle to widespread use: an entrenched belief among some doctors that treating the memory-robbing disease is futile. Alzheimer’s experts had anticipated bottlenecks due to Leqembi’s requirements, which include additional diagnostic
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The most distant spacecraft from Earth has resumed sending data after a five-month gap, NASA said Monday. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, about two weeks after the launch of its twin, Voyager 2. The spacecraft has spent over 45 years studying the outer solar system and has made flybys of Jupiter and
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