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The notebooks Marie Curie used in her research remain radioactively contaminated…
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In the weightlessness of orbit, an astronaut’s heart can become more spherical as…
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A Greenland shark studied in 2016 was estimated to be nearly 400 years old, meaning…
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew in and out of the solar corona and found a source of…
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In September 1969, a 100-kilogram space rock exploded in the sky above Murchison…
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The tallest volcano in the solar system is so wide that from most places on its…
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During World War II a US War Production Board memo accused the diamond cartel of…
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Scientists say the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse with very little…
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Two continent-sized structures named Tuzo and Jason sit nearly 1,800 miles beneath…
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GPS works because its satellites carry atomic clocks so precise that Einstein’s…
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In late 2023, Voyager 1 began sending unreadable data from interstellar space
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In 1908, something exploded above the remote Siberian forest of Tunguska with…
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An exoplanet with a daytime temperature hot enough to vaporize iron has methane on…
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Bowhead whales can live past 200 years, and biologists studying their DNA have…
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