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Who else is buried in King Tut's tomb? Perhaps a queen, says one Egyptologist.'I’m feeling more certain today than I expected to be,' the lead researcher told reporters on Saturday.
Climate protests: Is the public more engaged than ever?More than 140 world leaders will convene in Paris for the COP21 summit starting Monday, Nov. 30. The group's task is to come up with a long-term deal to curb global warming. Around the world, a record number of activists turned out to call for bold action.
How did astronauts spend Thanksgiving?Much like we did here on Earth, except weightlessness means the feast came out of plastic baggies.
- 100 years after Einstein's breakthrough, tensions remain with quantum gravity
Discovered in November 1915, Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity can predict with astonishing precision the movements of stars and planets. But it remains unable to describe behavior in the subatomic realm.
Burping plasma: What happens when black holes gulp starsAstronomers have just figured out a new step in the process of how black holes digest stars: it involves “burping.”
What's fueling the rise of coccolithophores in the oceans?Rising carbon dioxide in the ocean is causing a spike in population of microscopic marine alga, says a new study.
For homing pigeons, it takes speed to leadWhen homing pigeons fly in flocks, the fastest birds take the lead and learn the most efficient routes most quickly, according to new research.
Can mobile phone data provide the most accurate view of poverty?Some data scientists say that mining of anonymized mobile phone activity is the best way to track economic conditions in countries with limited national, or any kind of, statistics.
2015 will be hottest on record, say scientistsThe World Meteorological Organization said that this year will be the hottest on record, and that 2016 could be even hotter.
A strong tug might have pulled the moon to its inclined orbitResearchers have created a new model that could explain the 'lunar inclination problem' with gravity.
A planet of citiesWhy all cities – despite their unique geographies, cultures, and accidents of history – are really the same.
Did volcanoes pack enough punch to do the dinosaurs in?Researchers investigated the environmental impacts of sulphur gas emitted in such flood basalt eruptions and they may be more tame than thought.
When humans became farmers, how did genes change?Researchers investigated how natural selection shaped the human genome as farming spread across ancient Europe in a new study.
Thanksgiving in space: How space station astronauts get gratefulThe International Space Station astronauts get Thanksgiving off and eat dehydrated food, and sometimes they even share the American holiday with Russian cosmonauts.
First LookUN weather office: Why 2015 is the hottest year everAs world leaders gather to discuss climate change in Paris next week, increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and a strong El Niño weather pattern has caused temperatures to reach record highs.
How Mars may become a ringed planetPhobos, the larger of Mars' two moons, is on a slow crash course toward the Red Planet, according to researchers.
Conflict resolution in space: First hotline since the Cold WarThe United States and China are trying to avoid space wars, so they have set up a hotline for easy communication as both move further into the final frontier.
Scientists hold their ground against Rep. Smith's NOAA subpoenaAs the debate between climate scientists and Rep. Lamar Smith builds, the scientific community still agrees that the peer-reviewed data is legitimate.
Supercomputer spots Antarctic waters taking a mile-deep plungeImagery showed dense water falling more than a mile off the Antarctic Continental Shelf, resulting in ocean storms and underwater waves that can influence ocean currents and climate change.
First LookWater bears' super resilience may be linked to foreign DNAScientists sequence DNA from tardigrades, often called 'water bears,' to find that one-sixth of the animals' genetic material comes from other species. And about 90 percent of that foreign DNA came from bacteria.
