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Mysterious bump on a man's tongue had an 'extremely rare' cause

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A dentist noticed a lump on a patient's tongue, and it turned out to have an unusual cause.

Carly Pearce confirms split from boyfriend Riley King

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Carly Pearce confirmed her split from her boyfriend, Riley King, after two years of dating.

Watch: Reds phenom Elly De Cruz smacks 458-foot first career homer

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Great American Ball Park could barely contain Elly De La Cruz's first career home run, which sped 115 mph before it reached the back of the right field seats for...

'Liquid gypsum' burial from Roman Britain scanned in 3D, revealing 1,700-year-old secrets

1 week ago from Live Science

About 1,700 years ago, liquid gypsum was poured over the remains of an elite family in Roman Britain.

Wrestling star 'Iron Sheik' dead at 81, remembered for colorful roles in ring

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Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, known for his stage persona The Iron Sheikh, died Wednesday at age 81.

Watch: British lifting duo smash record with 997.5-pound deadlift

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A pair of British bodybuilders broke a Guinness World Record when they teamed up to deadlift 997.5 pounds.

New Dino, 'Iani,' Was Face of a Changing Planet

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations.

CW announces 'FBOY Island,' 'Greatest Geek Year,' more Summer premieres

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The CW announced its summer premiere dates on Wednesday including the broadcast premiere of "FBOY Island," the docuseries "Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982," returning and premiere comedies and drama.

Victims, suspect ID'd in Richmond school graduation shooting

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Officials on Wednesday identified a graduating high school senior and his stepfather as the two people killed in a shooting after a graduation ceremony in Richmond, Va.

Study analyzes the competition between fungal species that cause olive anthracnose

1 week ago from Physorg

After analyzing the relationships between the dominant species of Colletotrichum in Spain and Portugal, a study by the Department of Agronomy at the University of Córdoba suggests that pathogens, once...

Romantic love in humans may have evolved from same-sex friendship

1 week ago from Physorg

Romantic heterosexual relationships in humans may have evolved from same-sex pairings in a common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, according to a novel hypothesis by a researcher at The University...

Newly discovered dinosaur, 'Iani,' was face of a changing planet

1 week ago from Physorg

A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations.

King Tut's likeness revealed in vivid new facial approximation of ancient Egyptian pharaoh

1 week ago from Live Science

Researchers created a facial approximation that reconstructs what the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun may have looked like.

World's largest captive croc turns 120, giving scientists 'serious knowledge on longevity'

1 week ago from Live Science

Researchers captured Cassius in 1984 because the "big old gnarly crocodile" was causing trouble on a cattle farm, and ferried him to Green Island, Australia, where he still lives today.

Primates have been masturbating for at least 40 million years

1 week ago from Live Science

Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the ancestor of all moneys and apes.

Watch: Jason Statham dating Megan Fox in 'Expend4bles'

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The "Expend4bles" trailer reveals Jason Statham's new relationship with Megan Fox and some of the other new action heroes joining the legends.

Biden wants new national lab to study impact of climate change on disadvantaged communities

1 week ago from Science NOW

President Joe Biden is asking Congress for $35 million to begin planning a new national laboratory to study the impact of climate change on poor communities. The proposal for the lab, which...

This ancient civilization literally used their heads to move massive logs for miles

1 week ago from PopSci

It's never easy to move such massive logs—but some ancient people used their heads. Deposit Photos What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have...

Watch: Possible meteorite splashes down in British Columbia pool

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A British Columbia man said he is trying to determine whether an object that splashed down in his backyard pool was a meteorite.

Synthetic species created without biochemistry operate according to Darwinian evolutionary principles

1 week ago from Physorg

Imagine the possibility of life forms on other planets that don't resemble any on Earth. What might they look like, and why would they be so different?

Sea cucumbers: the marine delicacy that can deter diabetes

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

They're a marine delicacy loved across Asia, but the humble sea cucumber is also proving to be a key ingredient in preventing diabetes, according to new research from the University...

Three U.S. biologists win Spanish Asturias award for scientific and technical research

1 week ago from Physorg

U.S. biologists Jeffrey Gordon, Peter Greenberg and Bonnie Bassler won Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research for 2023 on Wednesday.

Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' megaslump is revealing 650,000 year-old secrets from its permafrost

1 week ago from Live Science

The permafrost inside the Batagay crater is the second-oldest ever found on Earth and scientists are using it to reconstruct the planet's ancient climate.

Mystery of what, or who, butchered Australian crocodile deepens following discovery of 2nd corpse

1 week ago from Live Science

An anonymous person allegedly told a wildlife tour operator who was very fond of the crocodile "Lizzie" that the killing was a way of proving that humans, not crocodiles, are...

Gun-related deaths spike in U.S. for second straight year, report says

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For the second straight year, gun violence killed more people than ever before in the United States as a new report finds firearms kill about 134 people every day --...

2 mourners shot at cemetery burial of 10-year-old gun violence victim

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Two mourners were shot, including one who died, at Washington National Cemetery in Maryland on Tuesday, as they attended the burial of a 10-year-old girl who was also the victim...

'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time ever

1 week ago from Live Science

The American crocodile had been isolated in a reptile park enclosure for 16 years when she laid a clutch of eggs.

How a geneticist led the effort to free a mother convicted of killing her kids

1 week ago from Science NOW

Carola Vinuesa woke up early yesterday in London, around 3 a.m., when colleagues from Australia called the clinical geneticist with big news: Kathleen Folbigg, who on only circumstantial evidence was famously convicted of...