Exhaling may speed up reaction times
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Exhaling may speed up reaction times

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A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance
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A medieval remedy could offer ideas for beating antibiotic resistance

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A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar
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A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar

A study published in Science Bulletin presents strong evidence for that connection. The findings raise the possibility that some mysterious cosmic flashes, whose sources have been difficult to…

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Watch Live: NASA’s Crew-13 could make the fastest U.S. trip to the ISS ever
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Watch Live: NASA’s Crew-13 could make the fastest U.S. trip to the ISS ever

The broadcasts will be available across several NASA platforms. Viewers can find streaming options at: NASA Live Crew-13 Launches Oct. 1 Crew-13 is scheduled to lift off at…

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Cannabis users were twice as likely to commit violence, review finds
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Cannabis users were twice as likely to commit violence, review finds

Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology Neuroscience (IoPPN) combined data from 63 studies involving more than 265,000 people. They analyzed the general population separately from people receiving…

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NASA’s Crew-13 could go from Florida to the ISS in under 9 hours
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NASA’s Crew-13 could go from Florida to the ISS in under 9 hours

In the days before liftoff, teams will complete final preparations and readiness reviews to confirm that the astronauts, the space station, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, and the Falcon 9…

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The ice blasting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized
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The ice blasting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized

An international team that includes researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo has now investigated what happens to that ocean water as…

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Earth’s day isn’t exactly 24 hours. The reason may lie deep inside the planet
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Earth’s day isn’t exactly 24 hours. The reason may lie deep inside the planet

The difference is tiny, measured in milliseconds, but physicists can detect it. Over time, some days become slightly shorter or longer depending on subtle changes deep inside the…

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Meet the newest living cat species, the first described in 100 years
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Meet the newest living cat species, the first described in 100 years

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Peru’s penguins are on the brink. A super El Niño could make it worse.
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Peru’s penguins are on the brink. A super El Niño could make it worse.

The first time I was in Punta San Juan, the desert was flooded with birds. It was 2012, and I was making a short documentary film about the…

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