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Human DNA is 1 to 2% Neandertal, or more, depending on where your ancestors lived. Svante Pääbo, founder of the field of paleogenetics and winner of a 2016 Breakthrough Prize, explains why that matters.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected a massive, never-before-seen icy cloud at the south pole of Saturn’s huge moon Titan.
Gigantic Ice Cloud Spotted on Saturn Moon Titan (Photos)
Findings from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggests winter in the southern hemisphere will be even colder than predicted.
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM|BY NOLA TAYLOR REDD,SPACE.COM
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Wayne Gurney It's not a moon ...
It's a Death Star ...
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Jason Martin WInter is coming.
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Researchers train pigeons to identify breast cancer in images of tissue samples and mammograms.
Pigeons Tend to Land on the Right Spot When Looking for Breast Cancer
The birds were taught to spot cancer and potentially cancer-linked calcifications in images.
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Sibylle Hechtel It showed that: "When the pigeons were taken as a group, and the choices of the majority tallied for each test, the birds demonstrated 99% accuracy in identifying cancer in the tissue sample images.
"They turned out to be extremely good pathologists".
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Elaine Shute That pigeon needs a little white coat and a stethoscope.
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Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the virus in September.
New Case of Ebola Found in Liberia, U.N. Official Says
Virus detected in 10-year-old boy after country declared free of the disease on September 3
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Bastien-frederic Nietveld Offcourse ; the source of the desease is well known. In a continent where 'some ' ministers of health ( I hate this whoman) prétend that lemon-juice is à good remedie against aids ; and people in Sierra Leone abuse by saying that à cold shower with salt at '4 am protects against Ebola ; how can we convince people 'not to eat jungle-food '????
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Bastien-frederic Nietveld Ebola will allways be found in West-Africa as long as we do not find à vaccination.
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In celebration of astronomer Edwin Hubble's birthday, read our Special Report commemorating the Hubble Space Telescope's unprecedented 25 years in orbit.
Hubble's Quarter Century
NASA’s iconic space telescope has delivered gorgeous astronomical pictures for a quarter century.
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Northwestern Research A great look back at a remarkable technological advance!
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The cause of migraine headaches has eluded scientists for centuries. Now a theory blaming one nerve has led to drugs that prevent attacks.
New Nerve Drugs May Finally Prevent Migraine Headaches
A new chapter in the long and often curious history of migraine is being written.
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM|BY DAVID NOONAN
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