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Saturn’s Polar Hexagon

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The Newest Member of the Human Family Tree

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Is Washington the Greenest City?

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Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty

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New Guidelines for Mountaintop Coal Mining

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Phobos, A Martian Moon

Peeps diorama by Sarah Zielinski, Amanda Bensen and Jamie Simon

A Peep Experiment

In peep jousting, two peeps, armed with toothpicks, battle it out in a microwave

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Accepting the Idea of Extinction

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Changing Climate May Have Led to Angkor’s Downfall

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Worst NASA Posters Ever

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Turn Off the Lights!

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Have You Seen a Jellyfish Lately?

Ada Lovelace

Who Was Ada Lovelace?

As we celebrate our favorite women in tech today, take a look back at the woman who wrote the first computer program

A Level Playing Field for Science

I suppose, in a way, I should thank the woman who tried to compliment me when I was in high school by saying that I was too pretty for science

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Another Endangered Kitty You May Not Know

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Photo Contest Finalist—A Chorus of Mackerel

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Take Flight Over Mars

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The Bacterial Evidence on Our Keyboards

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Reindeer Lack an Internal Clock

On the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, a mob led by Peter the Lector brutally murdered Hypatia, one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria.

Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Scholar

An avowed paganist in a time of religious strife, Hypatia was also one of the first women to study math, astronomy and philosophy

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