Space -- Science news this week: Wave patterns on Mars and 'free-range' atom clouds

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Health -- Science news this week: Overdue earthquakes and star-shaped brain cells

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Human Evolution -- Science news this week: 'Dragon Man's' identity and the universe's 'missing matter'

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Space -- 'Super-vision' contact lenses and bacteria in space

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Archaeology -- Earth's 'leaking' core and strange signals from space

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Space -- A unique new blood type and 'spiderwebs' on Mars

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Space -- An 'interstellar visitor' and the oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever sequenced

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2,300-year-old arm tats on mummified woman reveal new insights about tattooing technique in ancient Siberia - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 30 July 25 - A new analysis used near-infrared photography to shed light on the methods and tools for creating tattoos in the Early Iron Age Pazyryk culture.

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Experimental HIV vaccines show promise in early safety test - By - Nicoletta Lanese - published - 30 July 25 - Several vaccines for HIV have been tested in animal studies and an early safety trial in people, showing promising results in both.

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Russian volcano explodes in 'powerful' eruption, likely intensified by 8.8 magnitude earthquake - By - Perri Thaler - published - 30 July 25 - Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia erupted shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the same region.

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Even a slight slowdown of key Atlantic currents poses a 'stunning risk' to rainforests - By - Ben Turner - published - 30 July 25 - A slowing Atlantic current could have a devastating impact on the planet's rainforests, a new study warns.

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Rivers & Oceans

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'It was so unexpected': 90 billion liters of meltwater punched its way through Greenland ice sheet in never-before-seen melting event - By - Ben Turner - published - 30 July 25 - A previously-undetected flood over Greenland's ice sheet has confounded model predictions about how the region's meltwater should leak.

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Archaeologists discover 1,800-year-old Roman watchtower built to protect the empire during Marcus Aurelius' reign - By - Laura Geggel - published - 30 July 25 - Archaeologists are excavating a Roman-era watchtower in Croatia that was "built in a strategic location" on the banks of the Danube River.

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This 200-light-year-wide structure could be feeding our galaxy's center: 'No one had any idea this cloud existed' -- Robert Lea -- Partner Content Created With Space. -- Astronomers have discovered a 200-light-year-wide Giant Molecular Cloud dubbed the Midpoint cloud that seems to be feeding star-building material to the heart of the Milky Way.

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Teen at Yellowstone suffers severe burns after ground breaks over scalding thermal pond - By - Sascha Pare - published - 30 July 25 - A 17-year-old badly burned his foot and ankle on Monday (July 28) while hiking off trail near the Lone Star Geyser, Yellowstone National Park representatives said.

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'Universal' cancer vaccine heading to human trials could be useful for 'all forms of cancer' By - Nicoletta Lanese - published - 30 July 25 - A new mRNA-based vaccine triggers a response from the innate immune system to help arm the body against cancer, a mouse study finds. It's now in early human trials.

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Sticky goo in 2,500-year-old bronze jars finally identified, settling 70-year debate - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 30 July 25 - A cutting-edge chemical analysis of a mystery substance that had stymied experts for 70 years finally revealed its identity.

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Watch 1,000 baby spiders devour their mothers and aunties alive in stomach-turning, first-of-its-kind footage - By - Sascha Pare - published - 30 July 25 - Footage from the BBC's new nature series "Parenthood" shows African social spiders committing matricide and cannibalizing their elderly relatives. Even Sir David Attenborough was horrified.

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Google has turned 2 billion smartphones into a global earthquake warning system - it's as effective as seismometers, tests show - By - Ben Turner - published - 30 July 25 - Google's earthquake early-warning system has used phone accelerometers on Android devices to increase quake alerts by tenfold across 98 countries.

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Russia earthquake: Magnitude 8.8 megaquake hits Kamchatka, generating tsunamis across the Pacific - By - Pandora Dewan - published - 30 July 25 - The 8.8 magnitude megaquake is the joint-sixth largest earthquake ever recorded and the first tsunami waves have already hit Oahu, Hawaii.

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5TH PLANET FOUND ORBITING NEARBY STAR MAY LIE IN HABITABLE ZONE -- Samantha Mathewson -- Partner Content Created With Space. -- A super-Earth exoplanet has been detected within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star, where liquid water might exist on its surface under the right atmospheric conditions.

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400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath China - By - Aubrey Zerkle - published - 29 July 25 - Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of Rodinia, around 800 million years ago.

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