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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Dozens Dead After Volcano Erupts In Guatemala
All eyes have been on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano as it continues to pour molten rock from a number of fissures in the ground, but another…
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There's A Scientific Reason Why You Should Talk To Your Dog In A 'Baby Voice'
It's a well-known quirk of human nature that adults tend to talk to babies in an over-the-top, cartoony tone of voice. Science calls it "infant-directed…
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NASA Spacecraft Captures Evidence Of Frozen Methane Dunes On Pluto
Pluto might not be an official planet anymore but that doesn't mean the frozen world is any less interesting from a scientific perspective. The dwarf…
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Canadian Scientist Demands Protection For Historical Sites On Other Planets
For all the great things humans have accomplished on Earth — you know, civilization and all that stuff — we've still managed to kind of…
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Dino-Killing Asteroid Crater Almost Immediately Became A Cradle Of Life
When the asteroid that struck the present-day Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico reach the Earth it made life incredibly difficult for just about every living thing.…
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SpaceX Delays Falcon 9 Launch For Second Time, Now Targeting June 4th
SpaceX has had a very, very busy year thus far. The company's steady diet of rocket launches has gone exceedingly well — aside from a…
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Scientists Discover 'Mother Of All Lizards' In The Alps
Sometimes it's hard to imagine what the Earth was like when massive beasts like the Tyrannosaurus rex freely roamed the land, but it can be…
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