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Vandals Shatter 115-Million-Year Old Dino Track in Australia
Believed to be from a rare polar dinosaur, the damage was discovered by a school class visiting Bunurong Marine National Park
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NASA Unveils Finalists for Its Next New Frontiers Mission
In 2025, the agency will either try to grab a piece of a comet or send a space-helicopter drone to the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan
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First Center for Empathy and Art Launched in Minneapolis
The center will bring together researchers, artists, historians and philosophers to learn how art museums can promote empathy and understanding
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SpaceX Successfully Launches a Fully Recycled Mission to the Space Station
A previously flown rocket will launch a previously flown spacecraft to the space station
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Inside the First Museum in Iran Devoted to a Female Artist
The new museum houses 50 works by the acclaimed artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
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Little Foot, the Most Complete Australopithecus Fossil, Goes on Display
After 20 years of excavation and cleaning, the 3.67-million year old hominin is ready for her closeup
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Scientists Need Your Help Rescuing 100-Year-Old Weather Records
A new citizen-science project needs volunteers to digitize decades of temperature, rain and barometric data from across western Europe
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Why Lubaina Himid’s Turner Prize Win Is One for the History Books
The 63-year-old, Zanzibar-born contemporary artist becomes the oldest person and first woman of color to win the prestigious award
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Five Things to Know About the Redrawn National Monuments
The president is reducing two massive National Monuments by millions of acres. Read the context behind the decision and what to expect going forward
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Royal Society Photo Contest Winners Capture Drama and Wonder of the Natural World
From Antarctic ice to eclipses and killer whales, the images unveil nature’s strange and sometimes surreal beauty
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Super Pictures Capture This Year’s Only Visible Supermoon
If you missed last night’s celestial show, these images feature our lunar orb in all its glory
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Are Alien Microbes Clinging to the International Space Station? Probably Not
A report out of Russia claims extraterrestrial bacteria has been found on the space station, but there’s plenty of room for doubt
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The Geology of Bali’s Simmering Agung Volcano
The high viscosity magma of stratovolcanoes like Agung makes them extremely explosive—and potentially deadly
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Mexico Establishes Largest Marine Protected Area in North America
The nation will fully protect 57,000 square miles around the Revillagigedo Islands from fishing and resource extraction
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In Attempt to Contact Intelligent Life, Group Sends Musical Signal Toward Planet GJ 273b
Though the chances are slim, the team hopes this latest transmission is just the first of many
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Scientists Search for the Most Dangerous Places to Be a Shark
In a bid to stop the populations from dwindling, scientists are turning to big data
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Leonid Meteor Shower Will Streak Through Skies This Weekend
Expect 10 to 25 shooting stars per hour as the planet passes through the debris of comet Tempel-Tuttle
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U.S. Hate Crimes Ticked Upward in 2016
The latest FBI stats show a 4.6 percent rise, but crimes may be underreported by a factor of 50
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Five Things To Know About Liliʻuokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaiʻi
The queen, who was deposed by a coup led by American sugar planters, died more than 100 years ago, but is by no means forgotten
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Take in the Surreal Beauty of Jupiter in These Incredible New Images
NASA released the raw data earlier this week, allowing the public to process the beautiful images
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