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Mars Sample Return Will Change How We See Life on Earth Despite an eye-watering price tag, bringing pieces of Mars back to Earth promises to revolutionize our understanding of life’s place in the early solar system

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Mars Sample Return Will Cost Billions of Dollars—But It’s Worth Every Penny

Despite an eye-watering price tag, bringing pieces of Mars back to Earth promises to revolutionize our understanding of life’s place in the early...

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How to Stay Cool in the Summer Heat Heat waves are getting hotter, more frequent and longer. But there are ways to keep yourself and your community cool.

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Summers Are Hotter Than Ever. Here’s How to Keep the Planet and Your Body Cool

Heat waves are getting hotter, more frequent and longer. But there are ways to keep yourself and your community cool.

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China Returns First-Ever Samples from the Moon’s Far Side China’s Chang’e 6 mission has successfully returned samples from the moon’s far side, opening a new phase of the nation’s lunar space race with the U.S.

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China Makes History with First-Ever Samples from the Moon’s Far Side

China’s Chang’e 6 mission has successfully returned samples from the moon’s far side, opening a new phase of the nation’s lunar space race ...

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Antarctic Ice Hides 40-Million-Year-Old River System Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that flowed for thousands of miles

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Antarctic Ice Hides 40-Million-Year-Old River System

Beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists find remnants of a giant river system that flowed for thousands of miles

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To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors did. But our ancestors didn’t actually eat that way

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To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything

Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors did. But our ancestors didn’t actually eat that way

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How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Planet From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system, says Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

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How Earth Went from a Sterile Rock to a Lush, Living Planet

From microbes to mammoths, life has transformed Earth into one big living system, says Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came t...

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Learning from Great Tits' Urban Adaptability One of Europe’s most common birds, the great tit, show an amazing adaptability to human-made habitats. There seem no limits for this species when it comes inventing new ways of acquiring food from people

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Cities Can Learn a Lot from Great Tits

One of Europe’s most common birds, the Great Tit, shows an amazing adaptability to human-made habitats. There seem to be no limits for this speci...

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Giant Viruses Discovered in Arctic Ice Could Slow Sea-Level Rise Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the Greenland ice sheet

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Giant Viruses Discovered in Arctic Ice Could Slow Sea-Level Rise

Scientists recently discovered giant viruses infecting algal blooms that dot the Greenland ice sheet

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This 1920s Debate Explains Why So Many Americans Hate the News Media Brawls over the honesty of online and cable news today owe their origins to World War I and a debate that divides us still

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This 1920s Debate Explains Why So Many Americans Hate the News Media

Brawls over the honesty of online and cable news today owe their origins to World War I and a debate that divides us still

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The Best Mosquito Repellents, according to Science Mosquito experts break down how to choose and use the best mosquito repellents

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Keep Mosquitoes Away with These Tried-and-True Repellents

Mosquito experts break down how to choose and use the best mosquito repellents

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Badly Designed Streets Are an Overlooked Car Crash Cause, Traffic Engineer Warns Education and enforcement can only go so far in reducing crashes when badly designed roads are filled with large cars

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Badly Designed Streets Are an Overlooked Car Crash Cause, Traffic Engineer Warns

Education and enforcement can only go so far in reducing crashes when badly designed roads are filled with large cars

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Green Energy Is Getting a Boost from Iceland’s Melting Ice Melting glaciers are creating a green energy windfall in Iceland—but for how long?

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Iceland’s Ice Is Melting So Fast That It’s Boosting Hydropower

Melting glaciers are creating a green energy windfall in Iceland—but for how long?

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Remembering Lynn Conway, of the Conway Effect, Who Helped Launch the Computing Revolution Lynn Conway, a trans woman and advocate for LGBTQ rights, was underappreciated and often underrecognized for her work in chip design

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Remembering Lynn Conway, of the Conway Effect, Who Helped Launch the Computing Revolution

Lynn Conway, a trans woman and advocate for LGBTQ rights, was underappreciated and often underrecognized for her work in chip design

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These Bloodsucking Leeches Jump like Striking Cobras Scientists observed leeches jumping like striking snakes, resolving long-standing debate

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These Jumping Leeches Will Haunt Your Nightmares

Scientists observed leeches jumping like striking snakes, resolving long-standing debate

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Einstein’s Time Dilation Calculated More Precisely Than Ever with Exploding Stars Analyzing 1,504 supernovae into the distant universe, astronomers have shown the clearest evidence yet for cosmological time dilation as predicted by Einstein

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Slow-Motion Supernovae Prove Einstein Right Again

Analyzing 1,504 supernovae into the distant universe, astronomers have shown the clearest evidence yet for cosmological time dilation as predicted ...

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Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

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Remote Island Paradise Threatened by Shipping Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

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Researchers Sample Antarctic Sea Ice amid Rapid Melting To unravel the effects of melting sea ice, researchers drill the frozen waters around Antarctica and receive a surprise visit from a group of penguins.

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To Sample Sea Ice, You Need Patience—And a Pee Bottle

To unravel the effects of melting sea ice, researchers drill the frozen waters around Antarctica and receive a surprise visit from a group of pengu...

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Help a Traveling Salesman Find Every Route in this Math Puzzle Try to solve a traveling salesman’s directional dilemma

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Help a Traveling Salesman Find Every Route in this Math Puzzle

Try to solve a traveling salesman’s directional dilemma

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Oldest Deep-Sea Shipwreck Discovered Off Israel An ancient shipwreck lost in deep waters has yielded its first clues: amphorae from a lost age of international trade and civilization

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Oldest Deep-Sea Shipwreck Discovered off Israel

An ancient shipwreck lost in deep waters has yielded its first clues: amphorae from a lost age of international trade and civilization

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How Cohousing Neighborhoods Can Combat the Rise of Loneliness These cohousing communities are fighting an epidemic of loneliness with radical neighborliness.

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Could This Radical Vision of a Neighborhood Help Reduce Loneliness?

These cohousing communities are fighting an epidemic of loneliness with radical neighborliness.