World Health Organization Decides Video Games Can Be Addictive, Creates Incredibly Vague Diagnosis
Video games are an incredibly popular pastime for millions of people of all ages, races, and genders. When I was a kid in the late…
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Former Astronaut Doubts That NASA Or SpaceX Will Make It To Mars With Their Shiny New Rockets
It's widely known that the next frontier for manned space flight is Mars. It's our closest planetary neighbor that actually makes sense to visit, and…
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President Trump Orders Pentagon To Create A 'Separate But Equal' Space Force
At today's meeting of the National Space Council, President Trump directed the Pentagon and Defense Department to "immediately begin the process" of establishing a "space…
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Japan Was Rocked By A 6.1 Earthquake This Morning, And Casualties Continue To Climb
An earthquake struck the island nation of Japan early Monday morning, toppling buildings and causing all manner of distress for residents of the bustling port…
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New Helicopter Video Confirms Hawaii Is Basically Mordor Now
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy relied heavily on CGI to turn Mordor into hell on Earth, complete with a lava-spewing volcano and rivers of molten…
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Watch The Colossal Martian Dust Storm Swallow The Planet, And Opportunity Along With It
By now you've surely heard about the massive dust storm currently raging on Mars. Our planetary neighbor is experiencing a pretty serious bout of cloudy…
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This Tiny Frog Captured In Ancient Amber Lived In The Shadow Of Dinosaurs
If there's one thing that Jurassic Park taught us (besides the fact that Jeff Goldblum is a national treasure and should be cherished) it's that…
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Scientists Find Ancient Stardust On Earth, And It's Even Older Than Our Sun
Everything you see around you — from the birds flying above to the grass below your feet and even the digital display you're reading this…
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If You Get 'Hangry' When You're Hungry It Might Be In Your DNA
When it comes to hunger, there's two types of people. Some just get hungry, maybe a little bit sad that there's no food around, and…
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Woman With Vial Of Moon Dust Is Proactively Suing NASA To Prevent Its Seizure
It should go without saying, but material from the Moon is pretty rare here on Earth. The Apollo astronauts brought a whole bunch of lunar…
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Astronomers Discover That The Sun Has To Deal With Shrinkage
The Sun is big. By volume, the Sun could fit roughly 1.3 million Earths inside of it, but new research suggests that our friendly star…
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Salmonella Outbreak Hits Pre-Cut Melons Just In Time For Summer
In news that is sure to strike fear in the heart of fruit salad lovers everywhere, an outbreak of salmonella has been traced to pre-cut…
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When We Finally Find Aliens, We Might Find Their Garbage First
Searching for extraterrestrial civilizations isn't easy or we'd probably have already found a few. Traveling to other star systems in search of aliens would obviously…
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Astronomers Spot A Trio Of Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting A Distant Star
Humanity is going to have to leave Earth eventually. We've already messed up our planet pretty badly, and even if we don't push the Earth…
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Hailstorm Sends American Airlines Jet Into Plunge Described As 'Five Minutes Of Hell'
We've all seen the statistics that tell us how safe flying is. It's safer than pretty much any kind of transportation, you're more likely to…
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Researcher Discovers New Shrimp Species With Furry Feet, Names It After Bilbo Baggins
You really have to respect scientists when it comes to the incredible amount of effort it must take to discover, identify, and categorize and entirely…
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Paleontologists Uncover Oldest Footprints Ever, But They Don't Know What Made Them
Fossilized remains of ancient creatures are pretty hard to find, but fossilized footprints are even harder. For a footprint to survive millions and millions of…
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Scientists Just Discovered Something Very Special About Jupiter's Lightning
Jupiter is a massive, swirling mass of towering storm clouds, and anyone who lives on Earth knows that storms are fantastic at producing lightning. When…
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NASA Reveals That It's Found Organic Molecules On Mars That May Have Come From Life
Earlier this week NASA announced that it had something it wanted to tell us about Mars. Today, NASA scientists presented their findings in a pair…
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Your Dog Could Be A Victim Of The Next Influenza Pandemic
Thanks to plenty of warnings from the medical community we're all pretty familiar with the ability of influenza viruses to jump from other animals to…
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NASA's New Horizons Probe Just Woke Back Up
The last we heard of NASA's New Horizons probe was when NASA released a set of photos taken at the farthest point any spacecraft has…
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SpaceX Forced To Delay Plans For First Space Tourism Launch
Private spaceflight companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin have made some big promises when it comes to tourism in space. Eager (and very wealthy) astronaut…
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Earth's Days Used To Be Just 18 Hours Long, But The Moon Changed That
If you've ever felt like there just aren't enough hours in the day just be glad that you didn't live on Earth 1.4 billion years…
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Mythical 'Planet 9' Might Actually Just Be A Bunch Of Very Rude Asteroids
Remember "Planet 9"? No I'm not talking about Pluto. That ship has sailed. I'm talking about the maybe-kinda-sorta hidden planet that might-kinda-maybe be lurking at…
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Browse 20 Years Of Earth's Weather With NASA's Incredible Worldview Tool
Whenever NASA shows off a stunning new image of Earth from space it's fun to take a few minutes to soak in all the details.…
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Teacher Who Fed A Live Puppy To A Snapping Turtle Gets Charged With Animal Cruelty
Science teachers don't have it easy. They have to explain the workings of the animal kingdom to students in a straightforward and honest way, but…
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Pint-Sized Asteroid Spotted Just Hours Before Slamming Into Earth's Atmosphere
Generally speaking, NASA has a pretty good idea of which asteroids are hanging out in Earth's neighborhood. Astronomers have spotted, plotted, and forecasted asteroid flybys…
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