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‘The Next MacGyver’ competition aims to encourage more women to pursue STEM
Back when she was growing up, Veronica Eliasson used to be rooted in front of her family’s television watching “MacGyver”…
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A teen diver has incurred the wrath of a Washington state community by breaking an unwritten code when he dragged…
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SHIRLEY, N.Y. – An animal-control officer had hundreds of snakes, including two 6-foot Burmese pythons, at his home, where he…
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They’re shattering records. At just one molecule thick, researchers at Cornell and Germany’s University of Ulm have discovered the world’s…
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Unwanted memories erased in electroconvulsive therapy experiment
Scientists have zapped an electrical current to people’s brains to erase distressing memories, part of an ambitious quest to better…
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Giant virus resurrected from permafrost after 30,000 years
A mysterious giant virus buried for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost has been resurrected. The virus only infects single-celled organisms…
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