Science
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NASA’s Moon Rocket Heads Back to the Launchpad
NASA’s big moon rocket is rolling out to the launching pad for the third time — and it actually is…
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Death Valley’s Invasive Donkeys Have Become Cat Food
Early on a June morning in Death Valley National Park, a wild donkey brought her foal to one of the…
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Shark or Orca: Which Should You Fear More?
In the wild, is a human more likely to survive an encounter with an orca or a great white shark?…
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When It Comes to Lightning, Don’t Pass the Salt
One of nature’s most intense spectacles can be tamed with humble sea salt, the same stuff that graces some dinner…
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Astronomers May Have Found the Galaxy’s Youngest Planet
Over the last 30 years, astronomers have found more than 5,000 exoplanets, an eclectic menagerie of worlds far from our…
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Do Spiders Dream of Eight-Legged Sheep?
By day, jumping spiders hunt their prey, stalking and pouncing like cats. When the lights go down, these pea-sized predators…
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‘What a Horrible Place This Would Have Been’
This spring, a team of archaeologists and volunteers began painstakingly digging into the history of Fort Mercer, a Revolutionary War…
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Dolphin Strangers Met in the Bahamas. Things Went Swimmingly.
In 2013, a group of 52 Atlantic spotted dolphins, driven to migrate by unknown forces, left their home on the…
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The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos
In June, 100 fruit fly scientists gathered on the Greek island of Crete for their biennial meeting. Among them was…
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A Large Object Landed on His Sheep Farm. It Came From Space.
Mick Miners was herding sheep on a four-wheeler last week when he stumbled upon a pointy black object that looked…