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A surprising new use for nanotechnology essentially reverses combustion
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Scientists have made the most detailed map of our home galaxy’s hydrogen currently possible
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DNA analysis shows ancient hominds transmitted genes that may have helped us adapt quicker to Europe and Asia. They also gave us HPV.
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Paleontologists found four small fragments of dino fossils, proving the acidic soil 70 million years ago could have preserved bones
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The European Space Agency lost contact with the Schiaparelli probe after it jettisoned its heat shield and deployed its parachute
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Red blooms help the world commemorate a bloody war
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The hybrid bovine has been a missing link in the ancestral tree of modern European bison
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Over 10,000 of the world's largest water frogs were found dead along the Coata River, a tributary of the heavily polluted lake
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Tiny glass beads found in New Jersey and Bermuda suggest this dramatic warming period began with an impact
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Throughout her long life, Jia Jia helped the dwindling number of pandas bounce back
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It turns out that the shriveled shrooms love forests ravaged by fire
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Researchers spotted ripples in the planet's rings, which may be tracks left from two tiny moons
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Over the weekend, nearly 200 nations agreed to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, a super greenhouse gas used in air conditioners and refrigerators
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A lot is riding on the European Space Agency’s first Mars lander
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New research digs into the changes on the pockmarked lunar surface
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The Human Cell Atlas will boldly go where science, surprisingly, hasn’t gone before
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By these latest estimates, two trillion galaxies are scattered throughout the vast universe
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Small, slow steps for private spaceflight
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Recent analysis of two fossils provides the first evidence of ancient noisemakers
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Some leaps, launches and grand plans for the future
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