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32 of the most colorful birds on Earth

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Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

32 strange places scientists are looking for aliens

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From planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien life.

Papua New Guineans, genetically isolated for 50,000 years, carry Denisovan genes that help their immune system, study suggests

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Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude.

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Space photo of the week: 'God's Hand' leaves astronomers scratching their heads

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A new space photo captures "God's Hand", a cometary globule in the Gum Nebula, where stars are being born.

YESTERDAY

Why can't we see the far side of the moon?

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Spacecraft have visited and photographed the far side of the moon, but why can't we see it from Earth?

Meta just stuck its AI somewhere you didn't expect it — a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses

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Ray-Ban smart glasses will now use Meta AI virtual assistant software so that wearers can speak with their smart glasses and ask questions about what they're looking at.

Sarcastic fringehead: The angry little fish that engages in mouth-to-mouth combat

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This curiously named sea-dweller lives along the Pacific coast, eats squid eggs and fights by opening its mouth wide.

'The most critically harmful fungi to humans': How the rise of C. auris was inevitable

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In this excerpt from his new book "What if Fungi Win?" microbiologist and immunologist Arturo Casadevall examines the rise of the deadly yeast Candida auris.

Amazfit Active smartwatch review

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Did the budget-friendly Amazfit Active smartwatch manage to impress us with its performance?

Stone with 1,600-year-old Irish inscription found in English garden

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Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D.

MAY 10, 2024

Can mirrors facing each other create infinite reflections?

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Infinite mirrors are a fun party trick, but the physics behind this phenomenon explains why it may not be true.

Suspected thieves nearly swipe pre-Hispanic artifacts from an archaeological site in Peru

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Officials were alerted to the alleged crime and successfully recovered the artifacts.

Odd earthquake swarm in Central Europe hints at magma bubbling below the surface

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An odd earthquake swarm has struck the region between the Czech Republic and Germany, far from any tectonic plate boundary.

Cosmic 'superbubbles' might be throwing entire galaxies into chaos, theoretical study hints

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When there are multiple supernovas in the same galaxy, they can leave enormous voids that tamper with the balance between dark matter and regular matter. Over time, this can throw entire galaxies into chaos.

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