Andre Mitchell

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  Inseparable: 2 American centenarians still in love with each other 80 years after their marriage

  Eighty years after they got married, the lovers are still disproving their skeptics. In fact, the Goosenberg couple will be recognised this month for having one of the most enduring marriages in the United States.

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  Another Zika virus complication? WHO reports rise of rare paralysing ailment in Latin America

  Scientists are working to determine if there is indeed a connection between the virus and the syndrome, as more and more cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome--where a person's own nervous system is attacked by his or her immune system--are being reported in Latin America.

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  Climate change makes sea levels fall, not rise, new NASA study shows

  Using two satellites, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in cooperation with the University of California at Irvine recently found out that 3.2 trillion tons of water have already seeped through land over the past decade.

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  Deformed babies due to Zika shouldn't be killed, says journalist with microcephaly, a rare condition linked to virus

  The rising number of Zika virus infection, which is being suspected to cause mental deformities among babies, should not be used to justify more abortions, a Brazilian journalist with the rare condition said.

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  Einstein was right: For the first time, scientists detect gravitational waves from merging black holes

  In what is already being described by some as the most important discovery in the field of physics in recent years, the Laser Inferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) proudly announced this week that it has accomplished what it has set out to do: detect ripples in time-space.

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  Osama bin Laden sought to unite jihadists with 9/11 attack, al Qaeda aide's insider account reveals

  The mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Osama bin Laden, sacrificed so many lives to be able to unite jihadists around the world, the recently released insider account of his former personal assistant, Nasir al Wuhayshi, revealed.

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  Putin seen deliberately causing flood of Syrian migrants with Aleppo airstrikes to weaken Germany, EU

  For a foreign policy expert, Putin's well-calculated move is an attempt to further his goals in the war-torn nation, and to ultimately test the European Union (EU)'s capacity to accept Syrian refugees.

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  Ancient footprints discovered in Arizona give glimpse of Native Americans' lives

  These ancient footprints are providing us a glimpse of how Native Americans lived between 2500 and 3000 years ago, at a time when early human beings were transitioning from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to more sedentary village dwellers.

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  U.S. intelligence chief identifies gene editing as weapon of mass destruction

  In his report entitled "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community" submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Clapper said that genetic modification experiments being conducted by other nations, including those adversarial to the US, may create new types of biological threats.

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  'Internet of things': U.S. government may use ordinary household items to spy on people, intel chief says

  James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, told the Senate this week that his agency is looking at the possibility of using the so-called "Internet of things," or ordinary devices connected to the Internet and transmitting various information on its owners using microchips, for surveillance work.

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  'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' made real: Psychologists may soon be able to wipe out bad memories

  Dutch psychology professor Merel Kindt from the University of Amsterdam has supposedly found a scientific way to remove the emotional anxiety that comes with bad memories, without entirely wiping out the memories themselves from the human brain.

• Surprise! Hundreds of nearby galaxies discovered hidden behind Milky Way

  In a statement, Professor Lister Staveley-Smith from The University of Western Australia node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), who led the research, said her team discovered a total of 883 hidden galaxies--a third of which had never been seen before.