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Scientists Discovered a Gigantic, 300,000-Year-Old Landslide Under the Ocean
Long ago, an almost inconceivable amount of sand shifted, changing the surface of the sea floor
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A Comet, Eclipse and a Full Moon Will Light Up the Skies Friday Night
There will be a lot going on in the night sky, including a pass by the green comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková
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These Spectacularly Preserved Trilobite Fossils Come Complete With Guts, Gills and Legs
The 478-million-year-old creatures could help explain a series of mysterious fossilized tracks
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Meet the Cincinnati Zoo’s Three Newborn Malayan Tigers
The adorable balls of fur could help the zoo diversify their tiger gene pool
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Only 30 of the World’s Most Adorable Porpoise Are Left on Earth
As “the panda of the sea” hurtles toward extinction, scientists stage a last-ditch effort to save the species
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Mutiny in Space: Why These Skylab Astronauts Never Flew Again
In 1973, it was the longest space mission — 84 days in the stars. But at some point the astronauts just got fed up
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Blazing Green Meteor Lights Up Midwest Skies
Early Monday morning, the fireball buzzed Wisconsin before breaking up over Lake Michigan
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New Species of Fish-Scaled Gecko Can (Literally) Jump Out of Its Skin
The creature sloughs its skin when predators attack, leaving it looking like a raw chicken tender
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Japan Plans to Make Olympic Medals Out of Electronic Waste
Organizers hope to reclaim gold, silver and copper from the used electronics for the 2020 games
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A Martian Volcano May Have Continuously Erupted for Billions of Years
A space rock found in Northwest Africa provides new clues to volcanic activity on Mars
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Scientists Measure Highest Radiation Levels Yet Inside Fukushima’s Damaged Reactors
The latest measurements are over seven times the previously measured high—enough to fry a robot in two hours
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Why Was Babe Ruth So Good At Hitting Home Runs?
People have been using science on the Great Bambino since the 1920s
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Mary Leakey’s Husband (Sort of) Took Credit For Her Groundbreaking Work On Humanity’s Origins
Leakey and her husband, Louis Leakey, were a paleoanthropology power couple
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Science Is Falling Woefully Behind in Testing New Chemicals
Over 10 million new chemicals are synthesized each year, but with little funding science can’t keep up
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Meaty Finds: Two Studies Claim to Have Isolated Dinosaur Proteins
Scientists have long thought soft tissues couldn’t survive over millennia—but new research suggests that isn’t the case
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These 12,000-Year-Old Prostate Stones Likely Led to One Prehistoric Man’s Painful Death
The walnut-sized stones were found inside a skeleton buried in modern-day Sudan
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Are “Education Genes” on the Decline?
People in Iceland with genes associated with educational attainment are having fewer children, which may be affecting the population’s smarts
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Rachel Carson Wrote Silent Spring (Partly) Because of the Author of Stuart Little
The book was a turning point for the environmental movement
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Diet Deficiency Can Lead to Cannibal Hamsters
A new study may explain why the rodents are declining in western Europe
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Watch a Lava “Firehose” Spew Out of a Hawaiian Cliff
Kilauea is putting on a spectacularly scorching show
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