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Asteroid comes very close to Earth, but it will miss Upstart-news
APE CANAVERAL, FL. — An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will pass close to Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest encounters ever recorded. NASA insists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid hitting Earth. NASA said Wednesday that this newly discovered asteroid will rise 2,200 miles […]
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Has California avoided another devastating wave of COVID in the winter? Upstart-news
In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the winter holidays were marred by a pair of devastating waves that hit California, sending the number of cases skyrocketing, sending residents to the hospital in droves and Ultimately, it left thousands dead. But the third winter seems to have escaped that same fate. A spike […]
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What is the purpose of having hiccups? Upstart-news
We are all familiar with (Hello) the slightly uncomfortable feeling (Hello) that’s hiccups (Hello). Maybe you swallowed too much air in one sitting, ate your lunch at incredible speed, or had a shot of something too carbonated or alcoholic. Maybe you laughed at a terrific joke for too long, or maybe you just got too […]
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Ants can detect the smell of cancer in urine Upstart-news
Ants can be trained to detect cancer in urine, a new study finds. Although ant smell is a long way from being used as a diagnostic tool in humans, the results are encouraging, the researchers said. Why ant Lacking noses, they use olfactory receptors on their antennae to help them find food or sniff out […]
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Primate-like creatures survived in the Arctic when it was a lush, warm swamp | Science Upstart-news
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An artist’s reconstruction of ignacio dawsonae surviving in the hot but dark forests of Ellesmere Island Kristen Miller, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, CC BY-SA 4.0 Fifty-two million years ago, Canada’s now-icy northern islands featured lush cypress swamps where alligators splashed. Now, for the first time, scientists have revealed that this ancient arctic ecosystem was […]
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How our cells strategize to stay alive Upstart-news
EITHEROur cells, each made up of 100 trillion atoms made of particles from the Big Bang, they are full of all sorts of structures. These include organelles, little factories like energy-producing mitochondria, and tiny molecular machines like ATP synthase, whose rotor and shaft spin at up to 300rpm to produce ATP, the molecules that transmit […]
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A zero emissions future without the mining boom Upstart-news
The effort to move the American economy away from fossil fuels and avoid the most disastrous impacts of climate change depends on the third element of the periodic table. Lithium, the soft, silvery-white metal used in electric car batteries, was endowed by nature with miraculous properties. At around half a gram per cubic centimeter, it […]
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Oregon’s plan to ban the sale of kangaroo products is ’emotional misinformation,’ industry says | usa news Upstart-news
A bill has been introduced that would ban the sale of kangaroo parts in the US state of Oregon, targeting sportswear manufacturers that use the animal’s hide to make their products. But Australian industry and conservation experts say the bill is “driven by emotional misinformation” and is “backed by people who are not qualified to […]
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Supermassive black holes snack on the same star once every few years Upstart-news
A black hole nearly 900 million light-years away consumes part of an orbiting star every time it gets too close. Space 13 January 2023 for leah crane A supermassive black hole devouring material from a star (illustration) Nearly 900 million light-years away, a supermassive black hole is hungry. Every 1200 days or so, the same […]
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Frederick McCubbin painting defaced with Woodside logo in protest at Art Gallery of Western Australia | western australia Upstart-news
The Art Gallery of Western Australia’s most important and internationally renowned painting, Down on his luck by Frederick McCubbin, has been defaced with a Woodside logo. The masterpiece, which has been in the gallery’s collection since 1896 and was valued at $3 million a decade ago, was spray-painted with the oil and gas giant’s logo […]