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Exoplanet Is Being Vaporized by Its Parent ... Using funds from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, investigators have recently detected an extrasolar planet that appears to be evaporating... [read more >>] 200-Year-Old Shipwreck Found in Gulf of Mexico Scientists conducting an investigation in the Gulf of Mexico have recently come across the wreck of a wooden-hulled ship that apparently sank around 200 years ago. The researchers were able to investigate the vessel using a... [read more >>] Male Fertility Threatened by Environmental Ch... According to the conclusions of a new study from researchers at the University of Glasgow, it would appear that a subgroup of the male population is at risk of losing fertility due to chemicals usually present in the atmosp... [read more >>] Human Brain Has No “God Spot” Some experts proposed some time ago that the human brain might have a distinct area responsible for underlying spirituality and religious beliefs, called the God spot. A study conducted by experts at the University of Misso... [read more >>] Opportunity Survives Fifth Martian Winter NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists announce that the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is currently producing increased amounts of energy from its solar panels, after the end of the fifth winter it spent... [read more >>] New X-Ray Telescope Will Be Able to Focus When NASA launches its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, this June, the international scientific community will gain access to the first space-based X-ray observatory that can be focused. Experts expec... [read more >>] Heavy-Ion Nuclear Fusion Brought One Step... Producing electricity from heavy-ion fusion has been a goal in the international physics community for years. A new facility built in the United States could finally help investigators achieve this goal, by providing more d... [read more >>] 8-Meter Extinct Crocodile Discovered Investigators from the University of Iowa announce the discovery of a massive crocodile species that lived in what is now Kenya, East Africa, between 2 and 4 million years ago. The reptile may have grown to around 8.2 meter... [read more >>] Religious People Are Less Compassionate Tha... A series of three new studies indicates that less religious people, agnostics and atheists are more likely to be generous to those in need while driven by compassion than highly religious individuals. The works call into qu... [read more >>] Black Hole Observed Eating a Helium-Rich Star In a paper published in the May 2 online issue of the top scientific journal Nature, astronomers reveal the most concrete evidence to date that a supermassive black hole is consuming a nearby star that was unfortunate enoug... [read more >>]

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