Science & Health
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Warped Starlight Reveals Smallest Rogue Planet Known to Science
Free-floating planets are not bound to any star, having been dumped from their original home systems. New research describes the smallest rogue planet discovered to date, in an astronomical achievement that took an Einstein-inspired technique to new extremes.
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This AI Can Tell if You Have Covid-19 Just by Listening to Your Cough
It feels like whenever I cough these days it triggers a mini-panic attack that I promptly try to quash with a steady stream of chamomile tea. Thankfully, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have figured out a way to gauge whether a person has covid-19 just from the sound of their cough, so I…
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A Black Biologist Pioneered Animal Intelligence Research, but His Work Was Buried
Black biologist Charles Henry Turner was doing groundbreaking research into animal cognition at the turn of the 20th century, yet his ideas never gained traction on account of racism and his seemingly radical viewpoint. Many concepts proposed by Turner are now accepted science, and a group of researchers to say it’s long past time to…
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Freakishly Tall Coral Reef Found Off the Coast of Australia
An isolated coral reef measuring 499.87 m tall has been discovered off the coast of Australia. Known as a detached reef, the blade-like vertical structure could serve as habitat for a variety of undiscovered sea creatures.