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We tend to imagine the Moon as a barren, resourceless rock, but the permanently…
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In one drilled Martian rock, Curiosity found 21 organic molecules
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Harry Harlow gave infant rhesus monkeys a choice between a wire mother that could…
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Astronomers thought Solar System comets gave us a fair sample of comet water, but…
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In 1909, the chemist Fritz Haber pulled a few millilitres of ammonia out of…
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Astronauts on the Moon, with no atmosphere above them, looked up and saw a white sun
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In the summer of 1858, a lesser-known 35-year-old naturalist named Alfred Russel…
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The most powerful telescope ever built by human beings sits permanently parked 1.5…
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In 1987, Costa Rica's forest cover had collapsed to roughly 21% of the country, and…
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Some of the water sitting in your glass is older than the Sun having formed inside…
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For decades, scientists repeated as established fact that bacteria in the human…
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Less than a third of the world's ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards…
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When archaeologists excavating a Han Dynasty tomb near Changsha in 1971 opened the…
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We tend to think of Earth’s atmosphere as a vast protective shield, but astronauts…
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