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Cheetahs headed towards extinction, wildlife experts warn

Cheetahs are in a race for survival, with wildlife experts warning that the world’s fastest land animal is close to extinction. Experts estimate that there are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the world – a dramatic decline from 100 years ago, when the total population was estimated at 100,000. So imminent is the threat to […]

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Leap second 2016: Why this New Year’s Eve will have an extra second

The year 2017 isn’t coming as soon as you think. In fact, it will be exactly one second late. On Dec. 31, 2016, the international time keeping community will tack an additional second, known as a leap second, on to the last minute of the year. As midnight approaches, the official atomic clocks that keep

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What we can learn from bat calls

TEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release) — Bats, like humans, are extremely social mammals. They enjoy an average lifespan of 20-30 years, settle in large colonies, and rely heavily on social interactions for their survival, using vocalizations — or calls — for communication. There is very little known about the purpose and content of these noises.

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Trump’s newest adviser wants to mine the moon

The addition of Charles Miller to the NASA “landing party” bodes well for private space companies Artist concept of a moon colony via NASA Will Donald Trump shift NASA’s sights from Mars to the moon? Every time America gets a new president, NASA undergoes an upheaval. The agency gets new leadership, and sometimes major programs

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Mall of America pulls PETA anti-wool ads posted inside

MINNEAPOLIS — Animal welfare activists say their advertisements in the Mall of America opposing the wool industry’s treatment of lambs were taken down by mall officials. In response to the mall’s actions, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, commonly known as PETA, staged a protest in downtown Minneapolis early Tuesday afternoon, with three nearly

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Mysterious Sound From Mariana Trench Likely Identified

When scientists collected acoustic data from an area around the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean in the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015, they couldn’t identify a sound they heard with any known animal sounds. After analyzing the recording for over a year, they think the sound represents a previously unknown type of

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Tail of feathered dinosaur found in chunk of amber

Around 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight into feathered dinosaurs that prospered during the Cretaceous Period. Researchers said on Thursday that a chunk of amber – fossilized resin – spotted

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Earth’s spin is slowing at a rate of 1.8 milliseconds per century

The latest findings in Earth science are brought to you by ancient astronomers who observed the heavens as much as 2,700 years ago. Thanks to hundreds of records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets and written into dynastic histories, modern scientists have determined that the amount of time it takes for Earth

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Stephen Hawking Puts An Expiry Date On Humanity

Stephen Hawking believes that humanity has less than thousand years on Earth before a mass extinction occurs, the leading theoretical physicist said during a speech Tuesday at Oxford University Union, U.K. According to Hawking, the only way humans can avoid the possibility of extinction was to find another planet to inhabit. At the talk, Hawking

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