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A research vessel mapping the Mediterranean floor off the coast of Sicily has just…
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The human body replaces almost all of its cells over a roughly 7-10 year period
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When the Soviet Union sent the dog Laika into orbit in 1957, the public was told…
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Deep beneath Antarctica, researchers drill ice cores filled with tiny bubbles of…
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In 1986, a freshwater lake in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide that…
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Astronauts come home from long stays on the International Space Station measurably…
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A common dietary supplement — omega-3, the kind found in fish oil and flax — has…
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In 1991, eight people sealed themselves inside a glass world in the Arizona desert…
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The tallest known living thing on Earth is a coastal redwood named Hyperion that…
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Every GPS satellite is launched with a clock deliberately set to run slow, because…
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French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no…
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Helium was discovered on the Sun 27 years before anyone found it on Earth
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The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs struck what is now Mexico with such force…
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A tiny jellyfish can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving, turning…
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