Japanese researchers investigated ancient texts from the 4th to 7th centuries AD to identify five total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean and improve the model of the Earth’s rotation over time
Tsukuba, Japan—Witnessing a total…
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New MS Treatment Shows Promise in Trial
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
An experimental antibody therapy for multiple sclerosis can cut symptom flare-ups by half, versus a standard treatment, a new clinical…
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84 People Now Sickened in E. Coli Outbreak Tied to Wendy’s Restaurant Lettuce
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FRIDAY, Aug 26, 2022 – – A total of 84 people across four states have now been made ill by E. coli, in an outbreak possibly tied to…
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Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of…
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Sustainability of the Nile since the construction of the Aswan Dam
For thousands of years, the people of North Eastern Africa have relied on the Nile River as their primary source of life sustaining water.
One of the longest rivers in the world, the Nile flows for over 4100 miles from Lake Victoria to the…
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Medieval map shows ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay
A map found in the Bodleian Library shows two ‘lost’ islands in Cardigan Bay, possibly indicating the legendary sunken kingdom from Welsh mythology, Cantre’r Gwaelod.
Cantre’r Gwaelod was a land said to be west of present-day Wales….
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Early humans were drawn to Kalahari during water-rich periods
Evidence of water-rich periods in the Kalahari attracted early humans, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE.
The Kalahari is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa, named from a Setswana word kgala or “great…
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Underwater snow gives clues about Europa’s icy shell
Below Europa’s thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines.
The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves on Earth, but a new study shows that the same…
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Antarctica – The lost world
Antarctica is situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and covers an area of 14.2 million km2.
Described as a polar desert, the continent has an average annual precipitation of 166 millimetres and is covered by ice with a thickness…
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