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What is a second cousin?
There's a simple way to figure out the relationships between relations, including your second cousins and first cousin once-removed.
Gender prediction: Am I having a boy or girl?
A sonogram, ultrasound scan and blood test can offer gender predictions
Will we need more COVID-19 boosters to end the pandemic?
Will the pandemic ever end? And will we need more boosters to enter the endemic phase of transmission?
World's oldest drinking straws are 3 feet long and made...
The reanalysis of slender gold and silver tubes found in a Bronze Age burial suggests that they were drinking straws.
Pod of orcas frees a humpback whale from certain death....
A pod of orcas frees an entangled humpback whale off Western Australia. But were they really trying to rescue it?
Melted 'megaberg' A68 dumped 1 trillion tons of water into...
A new study of iceberg A68 (once the world's largest) charts its entire doomed journey, and shows exactly when it started to melt...
Astronomers propose building a neutrino detector out of...
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment would turn a massive swath of the Pacific Ocean into nature's own neutrino detector.
Who were the Knights Hospitaller?
With St. John the Baptist as their figurehead, the Knights Hospitaller developed into a powerful religious-militaristic group during...
