NASA May Have Just Caught A Nearby Star Eating An Entire Planet
Planetary systems aren't just born overnight. When stars form and begin pulling debris into their orbit, some of that material eventually clumps up into fledgling…
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McDonald's Salads Tainted With Poop Have Now Infected 163 People In 10 States
The entire concept of McDonald's serving salad has always seemed wrong and unnatural, but now you have a health reason to only ever eat Big…
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Ex-NASA Engineer Build's World's Largest Super Soaker, And It's 'Basically A Bomb'
We're right in the heart of summer, which means getting sprayed down with a water gun sounds like a pretty nice way to spend an…
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The Massive Dust Storm On Mars Has Completely Changed How The Planet Looks
Remember that giant, planet-wide dust storm that sprung up on Mars in late May? Yeah, well, it's still going on. Initially thought to be a…
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Was A Big Meanie, So This Newly Discovered Dinosaur Wore Plenty Of Armor
Living in the Cretaceous period would have been pretty darn dangerous for pretty much any animal. Dinosaurs were out in full force, and massive carnivores…
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Man Catches Shark, Shark Gets Eaten By An Even Bigger Fish, Man Does Not Catch Shark
Fishing in the ocean can be a pretty interesting experience, especially when you accidentally hook a shark. That's what happened to a fisherman aboard a…
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Renowned Turtle Scientist Stripped Of Award After Showing Scantily-Clad Students During His Presentation
Go ahead and file this in the "WTF?" news pile: Dick Vogt, a veteran scientist who studies Brazilian Turtles and is apparently good enough at…
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Surprise! There's A Quadrillion Tons Of Diamonds Lying Beneath Your Feet
Finding a diamond on the ground would make anyone's day. Depending on its quality, you might be able to sell it for a nice little…
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23 Injured After Hawaii Lava-Viewing Boat Encounters Lava
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been erupting since May, but despite the awe-inspiring magnitude of the lava flows, injuries have been remarkably few thanks to the…
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Brilliant Activists Turned River Trash Into A Floating Park, And It's Awesome
We've already established that mankind has a big, big problem cleaning up after itself, but there's at least a small percentage of humans who are…
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Archaeologists Find World's Oldest, Stalest Bread, And It Predates Agriculture
We take bread for granted these days but exactly when it popped up in the timeline of human advancement is still a bit of a…
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NASA Finds 'Spiders' On Mars, But Not The Kind You're Thinking
The search for evidence of past life on Mars is a long, complicated endeavor that NASA has devoted an incredible amount of time and money…
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You Probably Shouldn't Eat Crab Meat For A Little While
Another day, another dire warning about food that you probably should avoid for a while. Last week the FDA and CDC told everyone to stop…
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Venus Photobombed The Moon Last Night, And Everyone Loved It
If you're staring at the sky on a clear night it's usually pretty easy to spot the Moon, but we often forget that it's sometimes…
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Giant 'Plant From Hell' Sends 17-Year-Old To The Hospital With Third-Degree Burns
The Giant Hogweed is a terrible, no-good, dangerous plant. It also happens to be spreading across the United States with shocking speed, and just touching…
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Full-Color 3D X-Rays Are The Future, And Here's What They Look Like
For all the advancements in body-scanning medical technology, X-rays still tend to be pretty boring to look at. They're more accurate than ever, providing plenty…
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Watch Cape Canaveral's Iconic Launch Towers Crumble In Early-Morning Demolition
Cape Canaveral has always been a cherished place for the US space program, having hosting some of the most important space missions stretching back decades.…
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Oops! NASA Might Have Destroyed Proof Of Life On Mars On Accident Decades Ago
Finding proof that life once existed on Mars would be one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in the history of mankind, which is why NASA…
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New Telescope Camera Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Distant Star Cluster
NASA regularly delivers outer space eye candy snapped with its various telescopes, but the European Southern Observatory has plenty of star-gazing power as well, and…
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The Oldest Known Color Made By A Living Creature On Earth Is Not What You'd Guess
Today, when you look around the Earth, you see a lot of green. It's easy to imagine that things were the same before humans or…
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Video Captures Fireball Streaking Across The Midwestern US, Visible From 10 States
Skywatchers in 10 states in the Midwestern United States got a treat early on Sunday evening as a fireball careened through the atmosphere and produced…
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The Brightest Object In The Universe Was Just Discovered, But Is It Still There?
Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that…
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Check Out The Insane Heat Shield NASA Just Installed On The Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe is going to get close to the Sun than any spacecraft mankind has ever launched into space. It's going to study…
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Scientists Just Discovered That Spiders Can Fly Using Electricity, Spawning Fresh Nightmare Fuel
Some animals were born to fly, but most were not. Humans have no business in the air but we've come up with a number of…
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Against All Odds, NASA May Have Actually Found A Meteorite On The Bottom Of The Ocean
Three days ago, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with NASA in the hopes of finding leftover chunks of a meteorite…
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Man, Space Is Huge
Size is relative. A carpenter ant is huge compared to a regular ant, but it's still tiny when compared to, say, your foot. The challenge…
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NASA Is About To Test 'Quiet' Sonic Booms Over Texas
Humans have already mastered the art of going really really fast in the sky, and modern technology has made topping the speed of sound a…
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