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Beneath Polar Ice Caps

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Rodents in Space Will Show How Genes Are Affected by Microgravity

Space is tough on an astronaut's bones, muscles, blood flow and much more.

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Superbugs in Space? New Study Gives Reassurance for Astronaut Health

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Newly Found Planet Could Host Primitive Life, Study Suggest

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Tiny Robots Swimming in Your Eye Could Provide Radical New Treatments

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Hang Gliding Above the Ocean

in 360º

Hang Gliding Above the

Ocean in 360º

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Riding Shotgun in a Fighter Jet

Grab a g-suit and experience what it’s like to fly in a jet aircraft

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Diving Underwater With Elusive Devil Rays

Devil rays are mysterious sea creatures that are rarely seen in the wild. With their population dwindling, biologists are racing to learn more about these rays before they disappear.

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Standing in the Flames of a Prescribed Burn

To prevent mega-wildfires from spiraling out of control, technicians set landscapes ablaze on purpose.

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Why Twisted Light Holds the

Key to Radically Faster

Internet

Why Twisted Light Holds

the Key to Radically

Faster Internet

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Could the Goblin Planet Finally Unravel the Mystery of Planet 9?

Earth

A Lioness Adopts a Leopard Cub

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How Peacock Displays Can Make Females Vibrate

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Space

Here's Everything You Need to

Know About Saturn's Iconic

Rings

Here's Everything You Need

to Know About Saturn's

Iconic Rings

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Scientists Impaled Space Junk With a Harpoon, Here’s Why That Matters

Space junk threatens to entomb Earth in an artificial bubble, but promising solutions for cleaning up our trash are on the horizon.

Space

This Nuclear Robot Could Tunnel for Alien Life on Europa

This nuclear-powered tunneling robot could one day find life on Europa. Here’s how it works.

Space

How Long Could You Survive on Other Planets?

Humanity has dreamed of living beyond Earth for millennia, but would you really want to be in a spacesuit for the rest of your life?

Tech

In the Future, Broken Devices

Could Heal Themselves

In the Future, Broken

Devices Could Heal

Themselves

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Scientists Trapped Electrons In a Quantum Fractal (And It's Wild!)

Fractals aren’t just crazy cool mathematically infinite shapes. They might just have the capacity to revolutionize modern electronics as we know it.

Tech

How Did Roboticists Get This Ancient Fossil To Walk?

Advanced computer tomography scans are changing the way paleontologists are studying ancient life and “OroBOT” may be just the beginning.

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Everything It Takes to Engineer the World’s Largest Sea Bridge

120 years. That’s how long engineers want the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge to last. Given the suspension cables, artificials islands, and even an underground tunnel, the HZMB just might.

Earth

Fly With Hurricane Hunters as

They Enter the Eye of a Storm

Fly With Hurricane Hunters

as They Enter the Eye of a

Storm

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We May Have Just Unlocked a Secret to How Life on Earth Began

Scientists have been trying to piece together the chemical recipe for how the building blocks of life originated. Now, they may have found it.

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Weaving a New Future For U.S. Fashion Economy

Can these Oregon producers bring linen back to the U.S.?

Earth

How Oil Spills Can Be Cleaned Up With Human Hair

Hair can be used to clean up oil spills.

Health

Will This New Male Birth

Control Gel Actually Work?

Will This New Male Birth

Control Gel Actually Work?

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These Sleep Engineers Can Help You Hack Your Dreams

A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks we can harness our unconscious mind using tech you can wear to bed.

Health

Getting Educated on Female Orgasms

Learn the biology of the female “O.”

Culture

What Really Happens to Your

Blood After You Donate?

What Really Happens to

Your Blood After You

Donate?

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Baby Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation

These adorable baby manatees were rescued from Hurricane Irma.

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Archaeologists Are Back Searching for More Dead Sea Scrolls

A renewed hunt for the Dead Sea Scrolls is on.