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Pluto Probe Offers Eye-Popping View of Neighboring Star Proxima Centauri

NASA’s New Horizons probe wowed the world in 2015 with unprecedented pictures of Pluto, and, more recently, with the first…

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Slimy Mudflat Biofilms Feed Migratory Birds–and Could Be Threatened

The mud on Roberts Bank at the southern end of the Fraser River Delta in British Columbia is deep—and smelly.…

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Human Speech Evolution Gets Lip Smacking Evidence

Whether portrayed by Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy or Robert Downey, Jr., Doctor Dolittle learned to talk to animals. But in…

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Biggest Ever Yellowstone Eruption Revealed

Roughly 8.7 million years ago, in areas that would become southern Idaho and northern Nevada, the grasslands began to break…

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Skydiving Parachute Yank Is Comparable to Car Crash

Originally published in January 1942 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement "Possibly veteran jumpers can describe sensations and thoughts during the brief seconds…

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Carbon Levels Surge Again as Countries Emerge from Lockdown

Greenhouse gas emissions are roaring back as coronavirus lockdowns lift, according to updated projections from the Global Carbon Project. Emissions in China…

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Universe’s Coolest Lab Creates Bizarre Quantum Matter in Space

For 25 years, physicists have used an exotic state of matter made from ultracold atoms to probe quantum behaviour at…

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African Countries Scramble to Ramp up Testing for COVID-19

On April 26 Chikwe Ihekweazu, head of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, put out a desperate call on Twitter…

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Fatal Opioid Overdoses May Be More Common Than Thought

Opioids have been blamed for the deaths of at least 400,000 U.S. residents in the past two decades—but research now…

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A Visual Guide to the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus

For all the mysteries that remain about the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes, scientists have generated an…

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