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An international team of scientists has found a wealth of well-preserved stony meteorites in the Atacama Desert that allowed them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past two million years.

Boiled in hydrogen peroxide and compressed, the wood can passively manage heat.

The European Union has partially approved the shape of its next giant research-spending programme, but it faces political tensions.

Run for serverless containers includes new metrics, supports Cloud SQL, and is available from new GCP regions.

What can gamma rays really do?

You won’t be commuting to the office in it, but by this time next year it could be an entertaining extreme sport.

Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday.

Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to become “active” users of the social network.

In a new report, Facebook said it saw a “steep increase” in the creation of abusive, fake accounts in the past six months. While most of these fake accounts were blocked “within minutes” of their creation, the company said this increase of “automated attacks” by bad actors meant not only that it caught more of the fake accounts, but that more of them slipped through the cracks.

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How does a coma affect the body?