Creepy Skull-Shaped Asteroid Will Cruise By Earth After Halloween
If you were planning on holding a Halloween bash on October 31st, you might want to reschedule. A very special asteroid is going to make…
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Very Good Dog With A Very Bad Tumor Gets A New 3D-Printed Skull
When Patches, a now nine-year-old female dachsund, first showed signs of something wrong with her head it didn't seem particularly serious to her owner Danielle…
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Cats Are Apparently Terrible At Catching Rats
Cats are good at so many thing — napping, chasing laser pointer dots around the room, napping, eating, and napping, just to name a few…
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Japanese Probe Sends Back Stunning New Images From Asteroid's Surface
It's only been a couple of days since Japanese space agency JAXA showed off the very first images taken from an asteroid's surface, but we're…
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Another Chinese Space Lab Is Going To Fall Back To Earth, But This Time It's Under Control
Remember back in April when China's Tiangong-1 space station unceremoniously fell out of the sky, burned up in the atmosphere and rained a bit of…
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Paleontologists Discovered The World's Largest Ancient Bird, So They Named It 'Big Bird'
There are only a handful of very large bird species around today, but as intimidating as an ostrich might be when it's staring down at…
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Astronomers Might Finally Know Where That Mysterious 'Alien Probe' Came From
Late in 2017 our Solar System received a very peculiar visitor. Called Oumuamua, it was a comet (or was it an asteroid?) with a bizarre…
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The Tiny Mars Moon Phobos Might Be The Byproduct Of A Massive Collision
Mars is a pretty important place these days, what with space agencies around the world doing their best to get there and SpaceX suggesting it'll…
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Certain Female Termites Decide They Don't Need No Stinkin' Males To Reproduce
There are obviously lots and lots of species in the animal kingdom that require both a male and female for reproduction, but not all of…
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Mars May Have Supported Underground Life, But It Was A Long Time Ago
When mankind first noticed Mars in the sky there were surely plenty of people who wondered if life was roaming around on its surface. In…
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The Earth Is Wobbling More Than It Should, And Humans Are Likely The Cause
When looking at the Earth from afar it appears to be a perfect sphere, but that actually isn't the case. Because Earth isn't uniform on…
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Elon Musk Shows Off Concept For SpaceX Mars Base, Says It Could Be Underway By 2028
Never let it be said that Elon Musk isn't one heck of an optimist. The SpaceX boss has been doing a whole lot of forecasting…
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Decades Old Murder Victim Found After A Fig Tree Grew Out Of His Stomach
When a person has been missing for over four decades it's obviously pretty difficult for family members to hold out hope that their remains will…
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The First Photos From The Surface Of An Asteroid Looks Like Something From A Space Horror Movie
We've seen plenty of photos taken from the surface of places other than Earth. There's the Moon of course, a huge archive of images snapped…
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Pet Store Puppies Have Infected Over 100 People With A Drug-Resistant Bacteria, CDC Says
If you'd like to avoid intense abdominal pain and diarrhea the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there's a new place you should be…
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NASA Sent A Balloon To Observe 'Electric' Blue Clouds, And They Sure Are Pretty
We're used to NASA dropping gorgeous photos of far-off objects in space, but its most recent observations are much closer to home. In a new…
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Gorgeous New Hubble Photo Shows Hundreds Of Galaxies Ready To Be Explored
To us puny humans, Earth is a pretty big place. There's lots to see, do, and explore here on the planet where we originated. We…
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Japanese Asteroid Probe Sends Hopping Rovers Down To Space Rock's Surface
At the end of August, Japanese space agency JAXA announced when it would attempt to deploy a pair of very special rovers to the surface…
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Watch A Big Net Snag A Piece Of Space Junk In First-Ever Test Of New Cleanup System
Mankind has made a real mess of planet Earth. Our trash is just about everywhere, from city streets to the most remote areas of the…
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The FDA Says Your Pet's Flea And Tick Treatment Could Cause Neurological Damage
Keeping your dog or cat up to date with preventative treatments so they remain free of fleas and ticks is something that every responsible pet…
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Scientists Gave A Bunch Of Octopuses Ecstasy And They Started Acting Just Like Humans
You might not imagine that you have much in common with an octopus. Humans and octopuses certainly don't look similar, and their brains are far…
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Researchers Built AI-Powered Gliders That Learn How To Fly Just Like Birds
It took mankind untold eons to learn how to fly, but now artificial intelligence is doing something similar and in a fraction of the time.…
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An Army Of Spiders Is Slowly Taking Over A Greek Town, But It's Totally Fine
Arachnophobes will want to avoid the Greek town of Aitoliko for a while. That's because a massive army of eight-legged web weavers has descended upon…
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Scientists Are Trying To Figure Out Why Sharks Keep Gathering In The Middle Of Nowhere Every Single Year
Being some of the most dangerous creatures in Earth's oceans, sharks have been the subject of extensive study for many, many years. Scientists know a…
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Here Are The Hottest Places In Los Angeles, Literally
Southern California is usually a pretty comfortable place, temperature wise, but you'd never know it when you find yourself stuck in a traffic jam on…
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Ticked-Off Canadian Crabs Are Waging War On The United States And Scientists Are Powerless To Stop Them
Canada and the United States usually get along pretty well, and that's probably because Canadians are just so darn nice. They apologize for everything, they…
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ESA Space Probe Found Dead, And Gravity Is The Prime Suspect
When the European Space Agency launched the SMART-1 probe back in the early 2000s it was designed to have a relatively short lifespan. The spacecraft…
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