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The iconic planet's "ring rain" is more like a ring downpour, and it's coming...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSIThe building blocks of life are literally raining down on Saturn’s atmosphere from its iconic rings. NASA’s dying Cassini spacecraft detected streams of organic molecules...
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Astronomers using the Kepler and Hubble telescopes have glimpsed what seems...
Credit: NASA/ESA/L. HustakAstronomers are reporting what may be a truly historical celestial sighting this week. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, and some extremely serious math, researchers have...
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Officials in North Carolina are scrambling to combat the gallinipper, a...
Credit: Getty ImagesAdd another item to your climate change anxiety checklist: Giant swarms of supersized mosquitoes whose bites feel like stab wounds.That’s what happening right now in North...
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The IPCC's alarming climate change report says that limiting global warming...
Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesIf you thought the headlines this week about how we only have until 2030 to avert catastrophic climate change were stark, wait until you read the fine print.This...
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On the 50th anniversary of its launch, Apollo 7 isn't well remembered — but...
Credit: NASAFifty years ago, three people took a new spacecraft for a spin around Earth. It performed nearly flawlessly — so well that on the next mission, NASA decided to send people all the way to...
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A study on the impact of hog farms on local communities was published shortly...
Credit: REUTERS/Rodrigo GutierrezThe flooding that followed Hurricane Florence put a national spotlight on the farms that house millions of hogs in North Carolina and the open-air lagoons of hog waste...
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Starring Ryan Gosling, ‘First Man’ recreates the trials and triumphs of the...
Credit: Courtesy of Universal PicturesFirst Man, the highly anticipated new biopic about Neil Armstrong, stunningly portrays the person who first set foot upon the moon in all his many juxtapositions...
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International scientists have issued an ambitious 13-point plan for fighting...
Credit: Getty ImagesIn the wake of a devastating report issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of marine scientists has announced a 13-point plan for using the...
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In an excerpt from his new book of essays, the iconic scientist posthumously...
Credit: NASA/Kim ShiflettStephen Hawking would like to have a word. The world-famous astrophysicist and Cambridge University professor, who died in March, is sending warnings from beyond in his new...
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Researchers in Germany and the U.S. have uncovered some strange details about...
Credit: Getty ImagesTwo major studies recently published in the research journal Nature Communications have unraveled some longstanding mysteries concerning insomnia, memory retention, and the strange...
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A Stanford study suggests that young Juul users may have higher rates of...
Credit: Getty ImagesThe Juul brand that now accounts for about two-thirds of the U.S. electronic cigarette market may have a higher rate of addiction than traditional cigarettes — at least among...
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The joint space mission is set to closely investigate the diminutive,...
Credit: ESA/S. CorvajaBepiColombo, the first mission to visit Mercury in 14 years, aims to give the diminutive, sun-scorched planet an epic close-up — but only if the probe arrives there...
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A new global study finds that tiny plastics from water bottles and food...
Credit: Seeker/The SwimAn alarming new medical study has found nine different kinds of microplastics in human stool samples from around the world. The plastics include several varieties that are...
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This startup is creating a worldwide map for water bottle-filling stations...
Credit: Getty ImagesA California startup just launched a new crowdsourced app that's being billed as the world's first global search engine for clean drinking water. Called Tap, the system is designed...
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In the News VICE There Is Plastic 'Everywhere,' Says Guy Swimming Across Pacific Ocean Business Insider A French swimmer is racing to become the first person to swim across the Pacific. Here's what his...
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Covered in primordial rocks and boulders, the near-Earth asteroid’s material...
Credit: DLR German Aerospace CenterAs the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 prepares to land on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu this coming January, results are starting to come in from data collected...
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The spacecraft is set to bring seismic science back to the Red Planet when it...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of space seismology on Mars.Provided that the InSight lander arrives on the Red Planet safely on Nov. 26, it should be awake and...
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An international team of scientists has studied the causes of religious...
Credit: Musée cantonal des Beaux-ArtsReligion is often said to be at the root of the world’s conflicts, but what if mankind were simply naturally violent? How might we begin to understand the...
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New data from the European Space Agency explains why some stars are going the...
Credit: Getty ImagesThe Milky Way has a dark secret.According to new data beamed in from European research spacecraft, our Milky Way galaxy encountered and devoured another nearby galaxy around 10...
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The space-age alternative energy source may be on the verge of a breakthrough.
Credit: Ken FilarAnyone looking for a bright side in the climate crisis may want to learn about a potentially revolutionary research project that could help redefine energy as we know it.Researchers...
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