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Four dead stars have been confirmed within 65 light-years of Earth, hidden for…
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Deep inside polar craters on Mercury, sunlight has never once fallen
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In 1991, a single subatomic particle struck Earth carrying the kinetic energy of a…
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In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and recovered ice that fell as snow 1.2…
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Honey is so hostile to bacteria that hospitals keep a sterilised, medical-grade…
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Arctic ground squirrels drop their body temperature to nearly three degrees below…
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At the start of winter, the wood frog of North America stops breathing, lets ice…
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Dermatologists have long documented that the expressions worn most often across a…
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The search for alien radio signals from K2-18b, one of the most closely watched…
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Why did NASA deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid 11 million kilometres…
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At the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the air is so thin and so dry that…
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The Southern Delta Aquariids peak around July 30, but a nearly full Moon drowns all…
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We tend to think Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, but if you measure from…
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Every Antarctic winter, male emperor penguins stand for more than two months in…
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