Scientists have a new theory explaining liquid water on Mars

Rare and frightening footballfish washes up in California – again

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Why NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble, has ‘perfectly misshaped’ mirrors

Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years

A domestic newspaper warns of the Russian space program’s “rapid collapse”

Why This Ancient Civilization Fell Out of Love With Gold for 700 Years

The US Mountain West Could Soon Face Snowless Winters

41,000 years ago, auroras blazed near the equator

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong”

Colossal ‘Fossil’ Structures Have Been Detected Lurking on The Outskirts of Our Galaxy

Juno flyby reveals stunning new images of Jupiter, sounds of its moon Ganymede

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‘Extraordinary’ restoration of Roman rock crystal jar from Galloway hoard

Horseshoe crabs are in danger because everyone wants their blood

These Planets Are Crumbling Into Dust in Front of Our Eyes

Meet the man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website

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Airseas installs its first fuel-saving auto-kite on a cargo ship

The universe is expanding faster than it should be

Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened

Flexible paper-based battery is designed to biodegrade once discarded

Quantum physics requires imaginary numbers to explain reality

A tantalizing clue to why omicron is spreading so quickly

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How a strange bird from Mexico became a Christmas staple

Pluto’s bizarre polygons now have a science explanation

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Whatever Happened to Airships?

Mel Brooks on the Making of Spaceballs

What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?

NASA’s Perseverance rover finds organic chemicals on Mars

What’s Stopping Scientists from Making Viable Synthetic Blood?

The American Addiction to Speeding

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The lawyer who tried faking his death, and the writer exposing his crime dynasty

How a fly’s brain calculates its position in space

A Sun-Like Star Just Blasted out a Flare That Would be Devastating if it Happened Here

The Appeal of Artists Who Won Fame After Death

Even Really Massive Stars Seem to Have Planets

Scientists Just Found a ‘Significant’ Volume of Water Inside Mars’ Grand Canyon

From hairpin to house: woman who mastered ‘trading up’ realizes dream

Here Are the Juiciest Bits From the Secret JFK Document Dump

The CIA Once Wanted to Use Dolphins to Sink Enemy Ships

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Meet the bat that eats other bats

Surgeons in New York Successfully Transplant Pig Kidneys to Two People

A potential hangup for quantum computing: Cosmic rays

Why the World’s Astronomers Are Very, Very Anxious Right Now

Mayo Clinic research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer

Solid-State Batteries Are Here and They’re Going to Change How We Live

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Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

Spacecraft enters the Sun’s corona for the first time in history

US prep schools held student exchanges with elite Nazi academies

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NASA is tracking two explorers across Antarctica to prepare humans for Mars