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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that an algorithm with no training in materials science can scan the text of millions of papers and uncover new scientific knowledge.

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A prehistoric burial mound in southwest France was used and re-used by locals for more than two millennia, according to an analysis of bones and teeth from the site.

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New water cycle discovered on Mars

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Across all primates, including humans, "the showiest males have the smallest testes."

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This "little" black blob is 40 billion kilometers across (Earth is 13,000km across for reference) Voyager 1 has been traveling close to 16km/sec for the past 41 years, and has still only traveled half the total diameter of the black hole

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Table-top LIGO illustrates quantum breakthrough in gravitational wave hunt - Mirrors the size of pinpricks let researchers hear quantum noise at room temperature.

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Balloons are 32 times more likely to kill seabirds than hard plastics, Australian research shows

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In a blow to the image of hydropower as a source of green energy, scientists have found damming of tropical rivers not only damage downstream ecosystems, but can indirectly dump more carbon dioxide into the air than the electricity they generate saves in fossil fuel emissions.

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Geneticists accidentally engineer mice with especially short, long tails- Scientists stumbled upon the genetic pathway that controls tail developmental in mice

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Study finds most of Earth's water is asteroidal in origin, but some, perhaps as much as 2%, came from the solar nebula

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