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The wise words of Carl Sagan:
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The Drake Equation: What are the odds that aliens exist?
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A dinosaur feather trapped in amber has an extra surprise — an ancient tick: @GemmaTarlach
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A volcano in the Galapagos has woken back up for the first time since 2009: @eruptionsblog
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How We Found Jupiter's 79 (At Least) Moons
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Sorry, Elon. There's not enough CO2 to terraform Mars:
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SpaceX unveils new suit design, modeled by Elon Musk himself:
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This fungus has 20,000 genders and can mate with almost every individual in its species just by bumping into them:
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Is Planet Nine really a primordial black hole?
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Researchers get a peek at how other animals see the world:
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Swearing could actually be an emotional release valve and studies show that people who swear like a sailor are more honest and more intelligent.
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Introducing the newest organ in the human body: the mesentery.
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The wisdom of Einstein:
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What is dark matter? Even the best theories are crumbling
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Baby Tiger Sharks Are Eating Sparrows And Woodpeckers
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DNA from indigenous mummies proves that European settlers wiped natives out.
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Today's fun fact🌞
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Algorithm turns videos into living Van Goghs:
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What Are Tholins? The Mysterious Substance That Turned Ultima Thule Red
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What is dark matter? Even scientists' best theories are crumbling:
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This insect was found with a 99 million year-long erection.
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10 years since Falcon 1: SpaceX and the future of commercial spaceflight
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🗄️From the archive: The hunt for a theory of quantum gravity suggests that spacetimes might emerge more easily than anyone imagined.
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King Tut was buried with a dagger made out of a meteorite.
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Voyager 1 fires dormant thrusters for the first time in 37 years:
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The Drake Equation: What are the odds that aliens exist?
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You can freeze them, burn them, dry them out or even blast them into space, but humble tardigrades can survive it all.
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Ancient Mars likely saw violent tsunamis that forever altered its landscape.
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This cancer-killing compound was found only in a tiny marine creature. Now, researchers know how to synthesize it:
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Could Quantum Mechanics Explain the Existence of Spacetime?
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The world’s most controversial element.
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Massive tunnels in South America are likely the work of long-extinct giant mammals:
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A thought-provoking quote from Carl Sagan:
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Two ‘Rogue Planets’ Wander the Cosmos Without Stars
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Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists of all time, is best known for his theory of relativity. But he also spoke about social justice, morality and happiness.
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Science is full of beauty:
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The “Pillars of Creation” have been, are being, and will be destroyed:
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This tiny octopus is so cute, scientists might officially name it "adorabilis" http://t.co/JcVBsLBFXm http://t.co/Pvk5pSzPPZ
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The monster black hole in galaxy cluster Abell 85 is roughly the size of our solar system, but packs the mass of 40 billion suns.
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Most galaxies have a black hole at the center, and astronomers have found the mass is consistently about 1/1000th the mass of the host galaxy.
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The wise words of Albert Einstein:
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How mushrooms could clean up everything from oil spills to nuclear meltdowns.
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Voyager 2 is still going strong, more than forty years after launch.
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Man's Chronic Pain Disappears After Vigorous, Cold-Water Swim - D-brief
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Pants: We all wear them ... but why?
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Voyager 2 is still going strong, more than forty years after launch.
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A theorem developed by a young female mathematician in the early 20th century would define the bedrock of physics:
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Nearly 100 years after quantum mechanics was introduced, scientists still don’t agree on what it means
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Jupiter has 79 moons -- and maybe more yet to be discovered
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Body atlas reveals *where* we feel happiness and shame http://t.co/FBdhoE5WO1 http://t.co/OyiNnXOnpJ
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Trending: "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is a case study of AI gone bad: http://t.co/tr36apZlAk http://t.co/od7kPtIKws
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These caves weren't created by geology — they're likely the burrows of giant prehistoric animals:
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Pyramid workers were paid locals. Yet historical narratives and Hollywood films have made many believe the Jews built the pyramids while enslaved in Egypt.
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Our bodies are not made for modern society.
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By analyzing videos of dogs and horses playing together, researchers are finding clues about what they call "a universal language of play."
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This is what every element is used for:
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In 1883, the Earth let out the loudest sound ever heard
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Millions of people live with amputated limbs that are gone forever ... but that might not be the case in the future.
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@elonmusk It's actually a bit more difficult than that. Our follow-up, including comments from the experts involved in the study:
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Heaven and earth moved to make Albert Einstein a star a century ago.
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Nearly 100 years after quantum mechanics was introduced, scientists still don’t agree on what it means
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From the archive: Van Gogh's Starry Night, painted in an insane asylum, accurately models a mystery of physics.
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Molten salt reactors might just turn nuclear power into the greenest energy source on the planet.
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Dogs notice when other dogs (and people) feel sad:
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Galileo invented it, Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it.
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There are hundreds of millions of neurons that aren’t in your brain. Via @qz
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This tiny bat shrugs off multiple scorpion stings that could kill a human: @NerdyChristie
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A new paper suggests — controversially — that dogs are much older than we thought: @GemmaTarlach
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Uncovering how an egalitarian society fell apart 7,000 years ago.
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Albert Einstein’s simple yet powerful equation revolutionized physics by connecting the mass of an object with its energy for the first time.
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This is your brain (left). This is your brain on psychedelic mushrooms (right). http://t.co/48PPQjPz6N http://t.co/0tKQiwm3MG
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How mushrooms could clean up everything from oil spills to nuclear meltdowns.
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The sun, at 4.6 billion years old, predates all the other bodies in our solar system. But it turns out that much of the water we swim in and drink here on Earth is even older.
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Dogs may be older than we thought, but don't get your tail in a knot just yet — more research is needed:
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The concept of infinity is ruining physics:
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Astronomers finally figure out what it's like inside an actual, spinning black hole - and where exactly it'd kill you.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematical geniuses that world has seen in recent years -- despite having no formal education.
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King Tut was buried with a dagger made out of a meteorite.
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How mushrooms could clean up everything from oil spills to nuclear meltdowns.
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WATCH: The solar eruptions that caused today's spectacular auroras http://t.co/qDL3WSuZGb by @yulsman http://t.co/XanVyoP5vm
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As more studies emerge, psychedelics continue to show promise for treating depression:
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Roads have carved the world into 600,000 different pieces:
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Astronomers Find A ‘Fossil Cloud’ From the Big Bang Era:
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COVID-19 targets the types of cells that are found in the nose. Researchers say an exposed nose likely makes someone more prone to getting infected.
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From the archive: Van Gogh's Starry Night, painted in an insane asylum, accurately models a mystery of physics.
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Nearly 100 years after quantum mechanics was introduced, scientists still don’t agree on what it means
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Wounds in the mouth heal more quickly than elsewhere on the body. Now researchers know why:
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Quote of the day from Marie Curie on how science is full of beauty!
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If the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, we're in big trouble. What could we do to stop it?
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How mushrooms could clean up everything from oil spills to nuclear meltdowns.
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The fastest flyers aren’t birds — they’re bats:
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Gravity is everywhere, even in space.
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Cats do have have facial expressions, researchers say. They catalogue them in a paper:
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Gravity is weaker than you probably think and weirder than you probably imagined
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Van Gogh's Starry Night, painted in an insane asylum, accurately models a mystery of physics
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This tiny octopus is so cute, scientists might officially name it "adorabilis" http://t.co/JcVBsLThlW http://t.co/Pvk5pSzPPZ
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Gravity is weaker than you probably think and weirder than you probably imagined
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It may sound like something out of science fiction, but scientists grew mini-brains in a lab with functional neural networks that can produce brain waves.
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