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Goblin Shark Tonga Trench Alive

Watch a Rare Goblin Shark Filmed Alive in Its Natural Habitat for the First Time

Venus Flytrap Traps Fly

Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How Venus Flytraps Snap Shut

Thorium Nuclear Clock

Physicists Just Built the First-Ever Nuclear Clock

Arctic Ground Squirrel

Scientists Pulled 700,000-Year-Old DNA From Frozen Squirrel Poop

soil dwelling bacteria Streptomyces

New Antibiotic Found in Dirt Targets Superbugs in a Way ‘Never Been Seen Before’

Cosmology Simulations Machine Learning

AI Learned How the Universe Works—and That Created an Unexpected Problem for Physicists

One of the recalled cheese products tied to a Listeria outbreak.

These Recalled Soft Cheeses Could Contain Deadly Listeria, Health Officials Warn

Type Ia Supernova Universe Expansion Rate

Astronomers Push Back on a Challenge to How the Universe Will End

Evidence For Postmortem Manipulation

In Iron Age Scotland, People Removed the Brains of the Dead and Sharpened Their Bones

The Artemis III crew poses for an official portrait (from left: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio).

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Lunar Rover

Two Years Later, We’re Finally Learning How a Transformers-Inspired Rover Fared on the Moon

Expedition 30 Iss Geomagnetic Storm

Scientists Want to Build a Giant Shield Against Solar Storms

Whale Necropolis 2

Scientists Have Just Discovered a 5 Million-Year-Old Whale Necropolis in the Deep Sea

An illustration of a GPS satellite in Earth orbit.

Russian Satellites Are Jamming GPS Signals, Study Says

A box containing various medications

A Surprising Number of Gen Xers and Millennials Can’t Figure Out a Pill Bottle

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First Human Receives Experimental Therapy to Reverse Cellular Aging

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module’s space-facing port on Nov. 8, 2021.

NASA’s Crew Safety Alert Exposed a Bigger ISS Leak Problem

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Artemis 3 Crew

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