North Korean Volcano Provides Rare Chance For Scientific Collaboration and other top stories.

• North Korean Volcano Provides Rare Chance For Scientific Collaboration

  

  Mount Paektu, which sits on the border with China, is known in North Korea as the "sacred mountain of revolution" and considered the legendary birthplace of Kim Jong Il and Korean culture. David Guttenfelder/AP hide caption toggle caption David Guttenfelder/AP Mount Paektu, which sits on the border with China, is known in Nor..

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• Scientists Catch "Virtual Particles" Hopping In and Out of Existence

  This diagram represents the the light of a neutron star passing through an area of space where vacuum birefringence, a theory of quantum electrodynamics, is occurring. The light's magnetic and electric fields (red and blue arrows) are altered and aligned as they pass through the empty space near a neutron star, suggesting the intense magnetic field there creates virtual particles that affect the light. ESO/L. CalçadaAdvertisement - Continue Reading BelowAbout 400 light-years from here, in the a..

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• New evidence that Lucy, our most famous ancestor, had superstrong arms

  

  A model of Lucy, one of the most famous human ancestors. (Michael Stravato/Associated Press) In Ethiopia, she is known as “Dinkinesh” — Amharic for “you are marvelous.” It's an apt name for one of the most complete ancient hominid skeletons ever found, an assemblage of fossilized bones that has given scientists unprecedented insight into the history of humanity. You probably know her as Lucy. Discovered in 1974, wedged into a gully in Ethiopia's Awash Valley, the delicate, diminutive skeleto..

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• Private plan to send Moon rover to Apollo 17 site

  

  Image copyright NASA Image caption Apollo 17 was Nasa's last crewed mission to the Moon A proposed private space mission is planning to visit Apollo 17's landing site on the Moon.A German team wants to land a pair of rovers on the lunar surface to inspect the buggy left behind in 1972 on the last crewed mission to the Moon.The group, called PT Scientists, is one of 16 teams vying for the $30m Google Lunar X-Prize.It has signed a deal with launch broke..

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• The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms

  

  The doom hung like an anvil over her head. In 2012, a few years after Carol Vincent was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she was waiting to see whether her cancer would progress enough to require chemotherapy or radiation. The disease had already done a number on her, inflating lymph nodes on her chin, collar bones, and groin. She battled her symptoms while running her own marketing business. To top it all off, she was going through menopause.“Life is just pointless stress, and then you di..

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• UK panel says new three-parent IVF technique now safe for 'cautious use'

  

  By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A three-parent IVF technique designed to reduce the risk of mothers passing hereditary diseases to their babies is safe enough to be offered to patients in special circumstances, a British expert review panel said on Wednesday. Britain's parliament last year voted to change the law to allow the three-parent in-vitro-fertilisation (IVF) technique known as mitochondrial transfer, which doctors say could help prevent incurable inherited disea..

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• Gravitational-Wave Detector Resumes Hunt for Space-Time Ripples

  

  The experiment that made the first direct detection of gravitational waves is once again hunting for these space-time ripples. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) stopped collecting data in January for a scheduled period of upgrades to its two detectors, located in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana. Now, the machines are back on, looking for gravitational waves coming from distant cosmic sources.  The LIGO collaboration announced the first direct..

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• Pluto's Heavy Heart Shaped Dwarf Planet's Landscape

  

  Pluto's famous heart may not have been born in violence after all. Researchers have generally assumed that the heart's left "lobe" — a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) plain called Sputnik Planitia (formerly Sputnik Planum) — is an enormous impact crater that subsequently filled with frozen nitrogen and other exotic ices. But a new study suggests that the ice buildup came first and the accumulated material eventually pushed the underlying landscape down, much as Greenland's enormous ic..

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• Mayors and the finance sector working together on city climate finance

  

  By Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40, Ani Dasgupta, Global Director of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, and Brandee McHale, President of the Citi Foundation and Director of Corporate Citizenship at Citi There's been much discussion about the historic adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015, and the New Urban Agenda in Quito in October 2016. They share one thing in common: the key role of mayors in deliv..

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• Saturn mission approaches tour finale

  

  Image copyright Cassini Imaging Team/SSI/JPL/ESA/NASA Image caption The end phases of the mission should yield new information about Saturn's interior The Cassini spacecraft is beginning the end phases of its mission to Saturn.Having spent 12 years flying around the ringed planet and its moons at a relatively safe distance, the probe is now about to undertake a series of daredevil manoeuvres.These will see the satellite repeatedly dive extremely close..

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