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Between 2006 and 2014, a NASA balloon experiment floating above Antarctica picked…
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The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen
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A giant barrel sponge growing on a Caribbean reef off the island of Curaçao was…
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The Greenland shark lives roughly 400 years
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The smell of the ocean — that sharp, clean scent people travel thousands of…
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A blind cave salamander called the olm is projected to live past a hundred years…
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For decades the heavy rocks that carve trails across a Death Valley lakebed were…
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In 1986, John Gottman and Robert Levenson built an apartment-style lab at the…
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For a decade the Pink Planet was too faint for any ground telescope to study
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In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa carried hundreds of tree seeds around the…
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The June Bootids have flared to dozens of meteors an hour in rare years like 1998…
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No spacecraft has ever landed in the outer solar system — except one
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The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in 1903 and Apollo 11 landed on…
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Everyone with ordinary inherited blue eyes appears to share a common ancestor…
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