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The road to Mount Marathon
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Starting out over 100 years ago, the Mouth Marathon Race became an official organized event that challenged racers to climb a mile and a half up the mountain to get to the 3,022 foot summit and then get back down as fast as possib
The Northern Light
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ARTICLE: Bouldering as Treatment for Depression - A Study
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A recent study by the University of Arizona suggests that bouldering could be an effective treatment for depression in adults. Climber and researcher Eva-Maria Stelzer and her colleagues discovered that the physical, mental and so
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Shark attacks spearfisherman, who captures it on video
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A spearfisherman wearing a head camera captured the intense moment an 8-foot reef shark attacked him and took a bite out of his leg Sunday near Middle Samo Reef off Boca Chica in the Florida Keys.
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Yale astronomers identify new exoplanet
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A Yale graduate student working in collaboration with a Yale professor and a researcher at NASA’s Ames Research Center recently discovered a previously overlooked planet 3,000 light years from Earth.
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Soyuz capsule docks with International Space Station
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A Soyuz space capsule carrying astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States has docked with the International Space Station after a two-day voyage. The docking took place smoothly at 0406 GMT Saturday at a height of 412 kil
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Promiscuity may help some corals survive bleaching events
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Researchers have shown for the first time that some corals surviving bleaching events can acquire and host new types of algae from their environment, which may make the coral more heat-tolerant and enhance their recovery.
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Volcanic eruptions: How bubbles lead to disaster
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Why are volcanologists interested in vapor bubbles? Because they can accumulate in a magma reservoir underneath a volcano, priming it to explode. Researchers have now discovered how bubbles are able to accumulate in the magma.
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Planets stripped bare by host stars
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Astronomers have defined a class of planet that have had their atmospheres stripped away by their host stars.
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Astronomers discover mysterious alignment of black holes
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Deep radio imaging has revealed that supermassive black holes in a region of the distant universe are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction -- most likely a result of primordial mass fluctuations in the early universe.
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Skydiver recounts midair collision and hard landing in Pasco
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A skydiver. who last week was knocked unconscious five seconds after leaping out of an airplane over Zephyrhills and landing hard four miles from the drop zone, said he is hopeful for a full recovery and looking forward to partici
TBO News Breaking
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California 12-year-old readies for Mount Everest climb
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The call could come any day now. When it does, Tyler Armstrong hopes to be one step closer to doing something he has dreamed about for years: climbing Mount Everest, Earth's highest peak. Tyler is 12. If he makes it to the
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New species of frog found in the Peruvian Andes
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Researchers describe a new species, "Psychrophrynella chirihampatu," from the Peruvian Andes, in a new article. Like other recently described species in the genus, this new Psychrophrynella inhabits high-elevation forests in the t
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5 Unsolved Mysteries of King Tut's Tomb
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A recent imaging scan hints at hidden chambers that could offer insights into questions surrounding the life and death of the boy pharaoh and his place in Egyptian history
Scientific American
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Top scientists back federal plan to protect Alaska predators
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New rules would ban non-subsistence killing of bears, wolves and coyotes some of the most iconic yet persecuted species in the states 16 wildlife refuges A group of scientists has backed a federal plan to restrict the trapp
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Cavers fight to take the right to roam to new depths
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Campaigners call for government to extend legal rights of countryside access to Britain's underground wonders Cavers are calling for the government to extend the rights that allow access to mountains, moors, heaths and down
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