According to a study published Tuesday, a blood test has been shown to detect five types of cancer years before the diseases can be detected using conventional diagnostic methods. Developed by a Chinese-American startup, the test found cancers in 91 percent of people who showed no symptoms when the blood …
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How did Earth’s tectonic plates form? You might think that this would be an easy question to answer, considering that we are now trying to pin down the details of when it happened, and if there is tectonic activity on the Moon. But our knowledge of how this planetary mechanism …
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Astrophysicists released the largest 3D map of the Universe on Monday, the result of an analysis of more than 4 million ultra-bright and energetic quasars and quasars. The efforts of hundreds of scientists from around 30 institutions worldwide have yielded a “complete story of the expansion of the Universe,” said …
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(Newser) – It is not such a big change in the cosmic scheme of things, but the researchers say that the moon is millions of years younger than we thought. Specifically, a new model presented at Scientific advances establishes its creation 4.425 million years ago instead of the generally accepted …
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Scientists have identified an almost complete skeleton of a 4.8-meter-long dolphin ancestor that lived in what is now South Carolina during the Oligocene epoch about 25 million years ago. This ‘dolphin’ was the first known echolocation apex predator: in addition to its large size, it would have had large, tusk-like …
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