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Jack the Ripper revealed? DNA research may finally unravel mystery
Fox News - James Rogers
Forensic analysis by scientists in the U.K. may have unmasked Jack the Ripper more than a century after the murderer’s brutal killing spree sent shockwaves through Victorian London. Research by Dr. Jari
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Chernobyl ‘may still be killing us’ as book warns disaster might be behind ‘global rise in cancer and disease’
Fox News - The Sun
Chernobyl could still be 'killing us' according to a new book which suggests the disaster may be responsible for the global rise in cancers and diseases. MIT historian Kate Brown has been investigating
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'Impossible' discovery found on remote island off African coast: A 'lost part of the world'
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
Researchers have found rocks on a small island between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa, a discovery that has been described as mysterious for one very important reason — they shouldn't be there.
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Space Orbiter Spots 'Hairy Blue Spider' on Mars
Fox News - Mindy Weisberger Senior Writer
David Bowie sang about his sci-fi persona Ziggy Stardust performing with the Spiders from Mars, and now it turns out there's a "spider" on Mars after all. An image captured by a European Space Agency orbiter
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US detects meteor explosion 10 times the energy as atomic bomb: report
Fox News - Edmund DeMarche
If a massive meteor explodes above Earth and there are no iPhones to capture it on video, did it really happen? Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer for NASA, told the BBC on Sunday that an historic
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April the Giraffe welcomes new calf into the world, park officials say
Fox News - Elizabeth Zwirz
Fans of April the Giraffe can rejoice because the well-known animal welcomed a baby boy on Saturday, park officials said. “Welcome to the world little one!” Animal Adventure Park in New York said on Facebook
Military History
Miracle penny that saved WWI soldier's life to go up for auction: 'Never seen anything like this before'
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
A 19th-century penny that miraculously saved the life of a British World War I soldier is set to go up for auction next week. The penny belonged to Private John Trickett, who kept it in the top breast
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Newfound spiders named for 'Star Wars' Stormtroopers
Fox News - Mindy Weisberger Senior Writer
White-armored Stormtroopers in the "Star Wars" movies are practically identical and nearly impossible to tell apart. That uncanny similarity recently inspired a team of scientists who had discovered a
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Tropical tectonic collisions may have unleashed ancient Ice Ages
Fox News - LiveScience
Massive tectonic collisions in the tropics may have caused Earth's last three great ice ages. Before each of these ice ages, new research finds, collisions between continents and island arcs built long
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Waterfalls can spring from rivers spontaneously
Fox News - LiveScience
The breathtaking waters that cascade off of steep cliffs may be self-made productions. It was long thought that waterfalls needed an outside force to form — such as an earthquake, landslide or changes
Bodybuilding
Muscular monkey captured in stunning photos: 'Looks like it's competing in a body building contest'
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
Move over Arnold Schwarzenegger and "Saturday Night Live's" Hans and Franz – this monkey wants to "pump you up." A Finnish photographer snapped these remarkable images of this muscular monkey while visiting
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Decapitated worms regrow their brains
Fox News - LiveScience
For some worm species, decapitation is no big deal — they just grow a new head. But far from this superpower being an ancient skill, a recent study suggests that this ability is a relatively recent adaptation,
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein's birthday acknowledged with special message from microgravity
Fox News - Brie Stimson
For his birthday, Albert Einstein gets to have his Pi and fly in space too! The famed theoretical physicist was born on March 14, also known as Pi Day (3.14), and in honor of his upcoming 140th birthday,
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‘Wolf inside’ pet dogs helps them cooperate with humans, study finds
Fox News - Ann Schmidt
Dogs cooperate well with humans because of “the wolf within,” new research suggests. The study, published in Scientific Reports last week, claimed that dogs work well with humans due to specific behavioral
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Massive alligator spotted in Florida community finds a new home in Orlando
Fox News - Madeline Farber
A massive alligator went viral earlier this month after it was spotted roaming through a central Florida community. Now, the gator -- named Larry -- has found a new home. The reptile is now living in in
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Kangaroo punches paraglider after making perfect landing in Australia, wild video shows
Fox News - Ann Schmidt
A paraglider got quite a jolt when he landed in Canberra, Australia, last week. Jonathan Bishop had just made a perfect landing when he was punched by a charging kangaroo on March 7. Bishop filmed the
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Asteroid Bennu keeps spinning faster and scientists aren't sure why
Fox News - Space.com
On a distant space rock being explored by a NASA probe, days are slowly shortening — and scientists are still trying to figure out why. Right now, the asteroid known as Bennu is spinning once every 4.3
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Footprints of forming planets spotted around young star
Fox News - Space.com
A solar system similar to our own may be taking shape in the Taurus constellation. The young star DM Tau, which lies about 470 light-years from Earth, was already known to host a ring of dust where planets
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Chickens peck fox to death, because they're dinosaurs
Fox News - LiveScience
One fox learned the hard way that it's unwise to mess with a flock of dinosaurs. The young fox, just about 6 months old, probably thought it had struck gold when it snuck into a chicken coop at dusk last
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Here's what NASA's Opportunity rover saw before 'lights out'
Fox News - LiveScience
A set of newly released photos shows what NASA's Mars rover Opportunity was looking at just before the killer dust storm hit. That storm boiled up in May 2018 and engulfed Opportunity shortly thereafter.
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The Tinder matchmaker for animals
Fox News - news.com.au
It might sound like a strange job but when you see the end product it definitely produces the cutest result. If you missed the adorable pics of the fluffy red panda triplets born at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo,
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Shocking video shows shark 'kissing' diver
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
Don't tell this shark Valentine's Day was last month. A stunning video has surfaced showing a large blue shark appearing to give a diver a kiss. Photographer Steve Woods captured the moment off the coast
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Stonehenge feast discovery thrills experts
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
Stonehenge is one of the great mysteries of modern times, as researchers try to decipher its meaning, its composition and a number of other clues about it. But a new study suggests that feasts were held
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Dust ring discovered in Mercury's orbit
Fox News - Space.com
Two dusty discoveries may shake up our understanding of the inner solar system. Mercury shares its supertight orbit with a big ring of wandering dust, a recent study suggests. And a cloud of as-yet-undiscovered
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Newly discovered 'starry dwarf frog' wears a galaxy on its back, hides in dead leaves
Fox News - LiveScience
On a lonely plateau in India's Western Ghat mountains, an ancient family of frogs has quietly hidden among the fallen leaves for millions of years, evading human detection. Measuring about the width of
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Southern California sees swarms of painted lady butterflies, stunning images show
Fox News - Madeline Farber
In the days following the so-called “super bloom” -- which has covered the Anza-Borrego desert in purple, orange and bright yellow wildflowers -- Southern California has also received another jaw-dropping
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Why are these massive, baby stars orbiting so close together?
Fox News - LiveScience
There's a point in space that's 50,000 times as bright as our sun — the signature of a massive star. Scientists already knew about it and named it PDS 27. But it turns out, the dot of light scientists
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NASA is finally going to study Apollo moon samples after they were untouched for 50 years
Fox News - Chris Ciaccia
Nearly 50 years have passed since NASA collected samples of the Moon during the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and 1970s. Now, the government space agency has finally chosen to study them, with the
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Hundreds of chilling items discovered at Nazi massacre sites
Fox News - James Rogers
Hundreds of chilling items have been discovered at Nazi massacre sites in northwestern Germany. The finds were uncovered at three sites in the Arnsberg forest, where members of the Waffen-SS and German