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Most Astronauts Get ‘Space Headaches.’ Scientists Want to Know Why
Most Astronauts Get ‘Space Headaches.’ Scientists Want to Know Why Headaches are a common and recurring problem in space, even…
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First Comprehensive Plastics Database Tallies Staggering 16,000 Chemicals—And It’s Still Incomplete
First Comprehensive Plastics Database Tallies Staggering 16,000 Chemicals—And It’s Still Incomplete A massive new dataset highlights more than 4,200 plastic…
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Titanosaurs—The Biggest Land Animals in Earth’s History—Thrived by Combining Reptilian and Mammalian Traits
Titanosaurs—The Biggest Land Animals in Earth’s History—Thrived by Combining Reptilian and Mammalian Traits The secret to titanosaurs’ remarkable biological success…
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Meet the Real-Life Versions of Dune’s Epic Sandworms
Meet the Real-Life Versions of Dune’s Epic Sandworms A Dune-loving worm paleontologist makes the case that worms have been just…
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Is Marijuana Bad for Health? Here’s What We Know So Far
Is Marijuana Bad for Health? Here’s What We Know So Far Marijuana’s health impacts—good and bad—are coming into focus By…
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What Plant Migrations Tell Us about Ourselves
What Plant Migrations Tell Us about Ourselves New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more…
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Even ‘Twilight Zone’ Coral Reefs Aren’t Safe from Bleaching
February 26, 2024 2 min read Even ‘Twilight Zone’ Coral Reefs Aren’t Safe from Bleaching Coral reefs hundreds of feet…
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The Life and Gruesome Death of a Bog Man Revealed after 5,000 Years
Before he was bludgeoned to death and left in a Danish bog, an ancient individual now known as Vittrup Man…
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Could Neanderthals Make Art? | Scientific American
For centuries, the “Unicorn Cave,” or “Einhornhöhle,” in central Germany has been famous for its many thousands of bones. In…
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New Linguistics Technique Could Reveal Who Spoke the First Indo-European Languages
Almost half of all people in the world today speak an Indo-European language, one whose origins go back thousands of…
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