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Six “Crew Members” Just Emerged from a Simulated Eight Months on Mars
They celebrated with a skydiving trip chaperoned by the U.S. Army Parachute Team
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Etsy Won’t Let Witches Sell Spells
The craft site’s ban on metaphysical services stirs up a cauldron of controversy
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Michigan Owns 1,500 Shipwrecks
Divers, historians and state officials team up to preserve the state’s underwater heritage
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Could the Sounds of Cod Having Sex Save a Species (and an Economy)?
Spying on “spawning haystacks” is helping fishermen make more money and biologists preserve a floundering fish population
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Some African countries have tried to use science to justify laws that criminalize homosexuality
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Forget Llamas and Lions, Flamingos Are the Best Escape Artists
The pink birds are tougher than they look
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U.S. Grants Captive Chimpanzees Endangered Species Status, Prohibiting Most Research on Them
Captive chimps now have the same protections as wild ones
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Polar Bears are Eating Dolphins, Probably Thanks to Climate Change
A warmer winter lured a pod of white-beaked dolphins north but then ice trapped them, sealing their fate as a polar bear’s meal
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Elon Musk’s Futuristic Hyperloop is Coming to California Next Year
The project isn’t the enormous high-speed rail alternative that Elon Musk orginialy proposed, but it is close
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Excess Embryos: Families Are Now Adopting Unused Embryos Leftover from IVF Treatments
The practice is relatively new and touches on complicated legal and ethical issues
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Los Alamos’s “Atomic Secretary” Was Never Told What the Manhattan Project Was For
Dorothy McKibbin coordinated entry of all people and property to the Los Alamos site
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In California, Smart Water Meters Tattle on Wasteful Ways
The internet-connected meters provide nearly real-time feedback on water use
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Destroyed Buddha Statues Are Coming Back to Life in Afghanistan as Beautiful 3D Projections
3D light projections recreate a pair of statues destroyed by the Taliban
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Lions and Tigers are on the Loose After Floods in Tibilisi, Georgia
Wild animals escaped a Tibilisi, Georgia zoo when their enclosures were destroyed
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Comet Lander Philae Wakes Up From Nap
“Are you there, Rosetta? It’s me Philae”
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Half of All Languages Come From This One Root Tongue. Here’s How it Conquered the Earth.
Today, three billion people speak Indo-European langauges
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Dinosaurs (Probably) Never Saw the Grand Canyon
The canyon likely didn’t exist in time to be a hang out for giant lizards
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Which Wine Should You Pair With Your Weed?
Forget the cheese and charcuterie
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Saturn’s Rings Extend Farther Than Thought — Nearly 4 Million Miles From the Planet
The outermost ring is dark and dusty
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Worried About the Robot Takeover? Here’s a Video of Robots Falling Over
It’s like humanoid robots have ended adolescence — awkward clumsiness abounds
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