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Why does a big elk sound so puny? – CBS News Watch CBS News In this animated video essay, “Sunday Morning” contributor Robert Krulwich and animator Nate Milton go inside one of Nature’s mysteries, to examine why an adult male elk, weighing around half a ton, makes such an uncharacteristically high-pitched sound. View CBS News
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An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned — before additional analysis Wednesday lowered the chances to about 1.5%, according to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. Risks of the massive space
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When a routine scan led to Barbara Brigham’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2020, all she could think about was how she wanted more time. Her husband had just passed away. She loved her local library job. Her three children were still growing their own families. She turned to her care team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
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Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two centuries between about 1550 BC and 1292 BC. It’s the first royal Egyptian tomb to be discovered since King Tutankhamun’s final resting place
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An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4, the space rock carries with it very slim odds of striking land — either on Earth or, even less likely, the moon
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New images captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover’s Mastcam, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover’s eyes. The clouds were spotted on Jan. 17, and the photos were taken over the course of 16 minutes, the space agency said
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NASA plans to bring the two Starliner astronauts back to Earth, along with their two space station crewmates, around March 19-20, shortening their long-extended stay in orbit by about two weeks, the agency announced Tuesday. The slightly earlier-than-planned trip home was made possible by a tentative decision last week to switch the next set of
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Flagstaff, Arizona — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has been elusive. Researchers say they now have a way to tell the endangered species apart from other bats by analyzing saliva the nocturnal mammals leave behind when sipping nectar from
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Levidian CEO John Hartley shows CBS News’ Tina Kraus the British company’s patented LOOP system, which breaks down methane molecules into hydrogen and carbon and collects the carbon, in the form of graphene, in it’s large metal hopper. CBS News Cambridge, England — Scientists have long said cutting methane emissions is key to addressing climate
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Washington — The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, according to the European climate service Copernicus. The surprising January heat record coincides with a new study by a climate science heavyweight, former top
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