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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station can see flashes of light even…
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Tibetan people can live at altitudes above 4,000 metres where many humans struggle…
Earth & Life
The spider hides by pretending to be the fungus that kills its neighbors, and it…
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Naked mole rats almost never get cancer and routinely live more than thirty years
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Mars wasn’t always the frozen desert we see today
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Most of an octopus's brain cells live in its arms, not in its head
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In 1944, Neal Miller harnessed hungry rats in a runway and watched them pull harder…
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Olive oil flavoured with oregano was recovered from clay jars sealed inside a Greek…
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In 1872, Charles Darwin catalogued the facial muscles of suppressed rage
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For 400 years, sailors crossing parts of the Indian Ocean have reported patches of…
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Two marsupial species once known to science only from fossils, and thought lost for…
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A Cambridge neuroscientist argues your brain fears not knowing more than it fears…
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A molecule called MHC I was understood for decades as the thing that lets the…
Earth & Life
In the Amazon canopy a newly named spider called Taczanowskia waska was found…
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