As the Thanksgiving holiday was winding down, a medical center in Salem, Oregon, found itself in the middle of a frothing social media mess. A nurse named Ashley Grames posted a video on TikTok that…
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Our planet is unique in the Solar system. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics, ocean basins, continents and, as far as we know, life. But Earth in its current form is 4.5 billion…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Rio Tinto logo is displayed on the front of a wall panel during a news conference in Sydney By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An Australian inquiry into Rio Tinto…
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Small corners of the internet are ablaze with the news that Apple has significantly ramped up its search bot activity. Search bots typically scan websites in order to rank and index them for search engine…
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Deep sea animals can be the stuff of nightmares. Many inhabit the ocean’s twilight zone (down to 1,000 metres depth), where sunlight has virtually disappeared, and have adapted their vision to this dark alien world.…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Gold prices rose again Wednesday, settling above $1,830, as the yellow metal continued to recover from the beatings of November when breakthroughs in Covid-19 vaccines diverted money from…
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Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, announced on Instagram in November 2020 that he was giving 16 organizations a total of about US$800 million for a wide array of climate-protecting work. This money will help…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Gold was down on Wednesday morning in Asia, with increasing optimism over U.S. talks for the latest stimulus measures and a COVID-19 vaccine seeing a retreat from the…
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Every day there is disheartening negative news about the plight of children around the world. Stories about child labour, violence against children and the ongoing struggles of millions to access good education are everywhere. But,…
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In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She had started noticing very weird shapes she couldn’t fit easily to any…
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