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Butchered Rhino Suggests Humans Lived in the Philippines 700,000 Years Ago

Multiple, stone tools and a butchered rhino push back the date of early human presence in the Philippines by 642,000 years.

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Projectile Cannon Shows Asteroid Impacts May Have Made Earth a Watery Planet

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New Track and Field Regs. Limiting Women's Hormone Levels Spark Intense Debate

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A New Way of Making Plastic Could Help Boost Recycling

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Hang Gliding Above the Ocean

in 360º

Hang Gliding Above the

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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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Cuckoo Moms Trick Other Birds

Into Parenting for Them

Cuckoo Moms Trick Other

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How Your Cells Decide Whether to Be Part of the Brain, or the Colon

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Without Noise Our Brains Would Be Completely Different, Maybe for the Worse... (Part 2 of 3)

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Titan’s Oceans Are Made of Super Cold Methane, and NASA Created Them on Earth!

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Here's Everything You Need to

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Here's Everything You Need

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A Camera Called DARKNESS Will Hunt for Alien Worlds

The highly sensitive camera will allow astronomers to directly observe planets orbiting nearby stars.

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NASA’s Cryosleep Chamber Could Help You Snooze Your Way to Mars

NASA is teaming up with a company called SpaceWorks to create a sleeping pod that could get astronauts into deep space. How does it work?

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If We Heard from Aliens, What Would It Look Like?

How SETI sifts through cosmic noise to hunt for alien signals

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In the Future, Broken Devices

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In the Future, Broken

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Photonic Chips Will Change Computing Forever... If We Can Get Them Right

Using photons in computers instead of electrons could make light-speed computing possible, but at what cost?

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When It Comes to Exoskeletons, This Real-Life HAL May Soon Trump Science Fiction

Cyberdyne’s Hybrid voluntary and autonomous control Assistive Limb, or Medical HAL, is a neuro-controlled exoskeleton designed to assist people with spinal injuries or neuromuscular disorders.

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The Future of Sustainable Fashion: Mushroom Leather and Synthetic Spider Silk

Bolt Threads is bringing sustainable materials out of the labs and onto the runways.

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Fly With Hurricane Hunters as

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Fly With Hurricane Hunters

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Introducing The Swim: A 5500-Mile Expedition Across the Pacific Ocean

Ben Lecomte and his crew embark on a historic swim across the Pacific Ocean in an effort to gain awareness on the state of ocean health.

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Never Before Seen Footage Uncovers Antarctica’s First Scientific Missions

During the Cold War, Antarctica was primed for conquest. Here’s how it transformed into an international science laboratory.

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Too much noise can kill you, but silence can drive you mad. How much noise is too much?

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The Ebola Outbreak in the DRC

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[ASMR]: Everything Science Knows So Far

We’ve all seen those ASMR videos circulating the internet. But what exactly is ASMR, and what’s happening in our brains?

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Is There Any Actual Science Behind Stem Cell Therapy?

Stem cell research promises incredible cures, but what are the risks and how successful are these trials really?

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Danish Bone Trove Yields

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Is Music a Universal Language? (Sort Of!)

New research shows that people from all over the world can understand the meaning of music, even from other countries. Does this mean music is universal?

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Brain Reconstructions Suggest Reasons for the Decline of Neanderthals

Computer models show that Neanderthals appear to have had a smaller cerebellum than early Homo sapiens.