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Everything I know about flirting, I learned from the Cold War | Psyche Ideas
The Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev entertains the US First Lady Jackie Kennedy at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria, 3 June 1961. Photo by Photoquest/Getty
The Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev entertains the US First Lady Jackie Kennedy at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria, 3 June 1961. Photo by Photoquest/Getty
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Biodiversity Loss Increases the Risk of Disease Outbreaks, Analysis Suggests
Researchers found that human-caused environmental changes are driving the severity and prevalence of disease, putting people, animals and plants at risk
Human-driven changes to the planet are bringing widespread and sometimes surprising effects—including shifting the Earth’s rotation, hiding meteorites in Antarctic ice and, potentially, supporting locust swarms.
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See the Reconstructed Face of a Mummy Stored in a High School Library Since 1915
A forensic artist hopes the sculpture will help humanize the mummy, which appeared at Australia’s Grafton High School under mysterious circumstances
For over a century, a high school in Australia has been home to something inexplicable: the mummified head of an ancient Egyptian woman, kept in a box in the school library. Now, researchers have created a detailed sculpture of the woman’s face.
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Five Movies You Didn't Know Were Filmed in Utah
State officials are staging a year-long exhibition to celebrate 100 years of filmmaking in the state
In the mid-1920s, two silent Westerns—The Covered Wagon and The Deadwood Coach—used Utah’s rugged landscape as their backdrops. Since then, more than 1,000 movies and TV shows have been filmed in the state.
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See 12 Breathtaking Images of the Northern Lights, Spotted in Shocking Places Over the Weekend
A period of unusually strong solar activity meant the colorful aurora borealis could be seen much farther south than normal
Sky-watchers around the world were treated to rare, dazzling displays of the northern lights over the weekend, as the glowing phenomenon, which is usually seen close to the Arctic Circle, was visible much farther south than usual.
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Monet's Thames Paintings Will Finally Go on View in LondonâNearly 120 Years After the Original Exhibition Was Postponed
The artist hoped to display the works in the city where he painted them, but he was plagued with anxiety over their quality
Claude Monet had planned to display his paintings of the river Thames at a London exhibition in 1905. However, weeks before the show opened, the artist postponed it, believing the works weren't up to snuff.
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More Than 1,000 Fossils, Including Rare Dinosaurs, Gifted to Brazil's National Museum Following Fire
The massive donation was made by Burkhard Pohl, a Swiss-German collector, as the museum works to replenish its collections after a devastating blaze in September 2018
On the night of September 2, 2018, a devastating blaze engulfed the National Museum of Brazil, destroying about 85 percent of its 20 million artifacts.
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How 'Idle' Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage | Quanta Magazine
An oocyte, engulfed by the follicle and cells that support its decades-long life span, has an unusual way of dealing with contaminants to preserve its mitochondrial DNA and cytoplasm â both of which are passed on to the next generation.
Out of all the cells in the body, oocytes are the most patient. The immature egg cells form inside a female's body when she's still a fetus in her mother's womb, and then they wait in a quiescent state for years, if not decades. Cocooned inside ovaries, they pause, neither dividing nor replicating their DNA, so that one day they may pass along pristinely preserved genetic information to the next generation.
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AI that determines risk of death helps save lives in hospital trial - New Scientist (No paywall)
An AI trained on the heart's electrical activity alerted physicians about patients at high risk of dying, significantly reducing deaths in a clinical trial with almost 16,000 patients at two hospitals
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Richard Scolyer: Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year
Richard Scolyer has undergone a new treatment for glioblastoma, based on his own melanoma research.
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