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![Temperatures on Greenland Warmest in At Least 1,000 Years](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/10/29/1401102917572590526868082.jpg)
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Rare, Green Comet to Pass by Earth Starting This Week
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – If you're looking at the night skies over the next month and make out a tiny green light in the sky, don't panic, aliens haven't landed.
![Rate of Scientific Breakthroughs Slowing over Time: Study](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/06/15/1399061515551596421144822.jpg)
Rate of Scientific Breakthroughs Slowing over Time: Study
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The rate of ground-breaking scientific discoveries and technological innovation is slowing down despite an ever-growing amount of knowledge, according to an analysis released Wednesday of millions of research papers and patents.
![New Highly Contagious COVID Strain Emerges in UK](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/10/12/1401101216211687426765462.jpg)
New Highly Contagious COVID Strain Emerges in UK
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A highly infectious COVID strain has emerged and is already behind one in 25 cases in the UK, surveillance data suggests.
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Lawsuit Filed As Apple Watch Gets Racially Biased
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A class action lawsuit filed last week in New York claims that Apple profited at the expense of dark-skinned customers by charging a premium for an Apple Watch that knowingly incorporated a defective "blood oxygen sensor" feature.
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Experts Warn of New COVID Variants amid Soaring Cases in China
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Health experts warn that an increase in COVID-19 cases in China as the nation lifts its zero-COVID measures could serve as a "potential breeding ground" for new variants to appear.
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Milky Way Has Many Twins
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Studying the large-scale structure of our galaxy isn’t easy. We don’t have a clear view of the Milky Way’s shape and features like we do of other galaxies, largely because we live within it. But we do have some advantages.
![Iran Develops Radiopharmaceutical for Cancer Treatment](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/09/29/1401092911130454926674042.jpg)
Iran Develops Radiopharmaceutical for Cancer Treatment
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A research center of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has produced a radiopharmaceutical used for the treatment of cancerous tumors.
![These Two Exoplanets Are Probably Made of Water, Study Finds](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/09/26/1401092617190337126659202.jpg)
These Two Exoplanets Are Probably Made of Water, Study Finds
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Two far-off planets are likely made of water, according to research conducted using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer telescopes.
![Record Set for Most Distant Galaxy Ever Detected](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/09/22/140109221742524726641082.jpg)
Record Set for Most Distant Galaxy Ever Detected
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Light that has traveled for over 13.4 billion years to reach our neighborhood of space has been confirmed as originating from the earliest, most distant galaxy detected yet.
![Star May Have Drawn Scorching ‘Hell Planet' into Super-Close Orbit](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/09/19/1401091917244367226623862.png)
Star May Have Drawn Scorching ‘Hell Planet' into Super-Close Orbit
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – You thought Venus was hot? While the planet does have an average surface temperature of nearly 500 degrees Celsius, there's an exoplanet just 40 light-years away from Earth that has a surface temperature a scorching three times hotter: 2,000 degrees Celsius.
![China Considering to Expand Tiangong Space Station](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/09/18/1401091811533732126618522.jpg)
China Considering to Expand Tiangong Space Station
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Wang Xiang, the head of the space station system at the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), has revealed that the country is going to expand its new space station.
![Distant Black Hole Caught in Act of Annihilating A Star](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/09/14/1401091417392431626597522.jpg)
Distant Black Hole Caught in Act of Annihilating A Star
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial savage.
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Elon Musk Claims Human Brain-Chip Could Start Trials in 6 Months
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Elon Musk has claimed that a wireless chip developed by his company Neuralink could start human clinical trials in six months.
![Completing Einstein’s Theories: A Particle Physics Breakthrough](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/09/07/1401090717540527626548052.jpg)
Completing Einstein’s Theories: A Particle Physics Breakthrough
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Osaka University researchers showed the relativistic contraction of an electric field produced by fast-moving charged particles, as predicted by Einstein’s theory, which can help improve radiation and particle physics research.
![Vast Volcanic Eruptions May Have Turned Venus from Paradise into Hell](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/06/25/1399062512560654821211522.jpg)
Vast Volcanic Eruptions May Have Turned Venus from Paradise into Hell
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Massive global volcanism that covered 80% of Venus' surface in lava may have been the deciding factor that transformed Venus from a wet and mild world into the suffocating, sulfuric, hellish planet that it is today.
![Iran to Launch Nahid Satellite into Space: ICT Minister](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1398/05/09/1398050911505295318001082.jpg)
Iran to Launch Nahid Satellite into Space: ICT Minister
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Issa Zarepour unveiled plans to launch the homegrown satellite “Nahid” into orbit in the near future.
![4.6 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite May Reveal Origin of Earth's Water](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/08/29/1401082917235824726469032.png)
4.6 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite May Reveal Origin of Earth's Water
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An ancient meteorite that crash-landed on a UK driveway may have solved the mystery of where Earth's water came from.
![New COVID-19 Variants Can Evade Immunity](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1401/08/22/1401082214134981726422692.jpg)
New COVID-19 Variants Can Evade Immunity
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Several increasingly common new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are capable of evading both vaccine- and infection-derived immunity, according to a study spearheaded by the director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia University.
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