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Spaceflight

This Tiny Satellite Used an Off-the-Shelf GoPro to Take an Epic Selfie in Space

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NASA Completes Its First Commercial Space Launch From Australia

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Software Glitch Pushes Back NASA’s Psyche Mission Launch by at Least a Year

Health

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Maternal Deaths Spiked in US During First Year of the Pandemic, Study Finds

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The Flu Vaccine May Help Keep Alzheimer's at Bay

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New York City Is Offering the Monkeypox Vaccine to Men Who Have Sex With Men

Gabriella Sotelo

Shopping

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Archaeology

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The Chicken (or the Egg) First Came From This Spot, Researchers Say

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Researchers Think They Found Crusades-Era Grenades in Jerusalem

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Spanish Cave Was an Art Studio for Neanderthals and Ancient Humans, Researchers Say

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Egypt Unveils Trove of Ancient Artifacts Found Near Cairo

Space

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The Most Interesting Moons in Our Solar System

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Rolls Past Evidence of Ancient Water

NASA's Dust-Choked InSight Lander Likely Won't Make It to the End of the Year

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The SOFIA Mission Is Ending, but Its Legacy Will Be Long Felt

Physics

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New Optical Illusion Makes 86% of People Feel Like They're Falling Into a Black Hole

Andrew Liszewski

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MIT's 'Sun-in-a-Box' Uses Light as an Efficient Form of Energy

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The Large Hadron Collider Rebooted and Immediately Broke a World Record

Paleontology

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13,000-Year-Old Tusk Reveals Life of 'Fred,' a Mastodon Who Died in Battle

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Paleontologists Find First Known Dinosaur Belly Button

Jeanne Timmons

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Metal AF Giraffe Cousins Had Skulls Made for Bashing

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Great White Sharks May Have Pushed Megalodons to Extinction

Animals

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These Wild Bats Remembered a Specific Phone Ringtone 4 Years Later

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These Frogs Might Be the Worst Jumpers Ever

and Artem Golub

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How Mammals Rose From the Doom of the Dinosaurs

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Lawmakers Request Recall of Controversial Seresto Flea Collars After Grilling CEO

Anthropology

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150,000-Year-Old Human Tooth Is Rare Evidence of the Extinct Denisovans

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Stone Age Anatolians Dug Up Their Dead and Painted the Bones

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Oldest Known Fossil of a Modern Human May Be Even More Ancient Than We Thought

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Siberian Cave Yields Oldest Fossils Belonging to Enigmatic Human Species

History

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108-Year-Old Calculations by Einstein Sell for $15 Million at Auction

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Famous Viking Map of North America Is Totally Fake

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Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Translated by Researchers

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Navy Ship Sunk in Historic World War II Battle Is Now the Deepest Explored Wreck

Earth Science

'Road to Atlantis' Discovered on Seafloor Is Not Road to Atlantis

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Gas From the Big Bang May Be Trapped Inside Earth

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Geophysicists Mapped the 'Plumbing' That Feeds Yellowstone's Famous Hot Springs

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

Hackers Could Make Dangerous AI Safer

Artificial Intelligence

How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity

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Artificial Intelligence

How AI Could Upgrade Brain Stimulation Therapies

Thor Benson

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Human Genomes Could Help Overcome Research Privacy Concerns

Conservation

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Bees Are Fish Now, I Guess?

and Kevin Hurler

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Scientists Figured Out How All-Female Termite Colonies Came to Exist

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Colossal Iceberg Spilled 168 Billion Tons of Freshwater Near Wildlife-Rich Island

Dream Experiment

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Dream Experiment

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

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Dream Experiment

A Lifelong Biodome Experiment Could Reveal How the Immune System Shapes Personality

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Dream Experiment

Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens

Dream Experiment

We Could Solve the Mysteries of Time and Space—If We Had a Particle Accelerator the Size of the Solar System

Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Genetics

Giant Bacteria Visible to the Naked Eye Discovered in Mangrove Swamp

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It's Not Just Great Replacement Theory That Influenced the Buffalo Shooter

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Scientists CRISPR'd Tomatoes to Make Them Full of Vitamin D

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Google Reverses Ban on Ads for All Stem Cell Therapies, Will Allow FDA-Approved Ones

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