Why do we sleep? The answer may change right before we turn 3

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What if the Earth had rings?

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Why Is Space a Vacuum?

A vacuum is an empty place, which space nearly achieves. | Continue reading


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100M-year-old sperm is the oldest ever found. And it's giant

It was crammed in the body of a tiny crustacean. | Continue reading


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Scientists find 'secret molecule' that allows bacteria to exhale electricity

The soil bacteria breathe through 'giant snorkels' made of a special conductive protein, the researchers found. | Continue reading


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How long is a galactic year?

The galaxy is a big place, after all. | Continue reading


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Black hole 'hair' could be detected using ripples in space-time

Hair may record the information swallowed by the gravitational monsters. | Continue reading


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Amoeba solve mazes by 'seeing around corners' via chemotaxis

Cells intuitively avoided dead-ends when released into microscopic mazes. Here's how. | Continue reading


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Stone structures in Saudi Arabia may be among oldest monuments in world

They number in the hundreds and can be larger than an NFL football field. | Continue reading


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What would happen to Earth if humans went extinct?

Nature always finds a way. | Continue reading


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'Darth Vader' sea bug pulled from waters near Indonesia

The newly described species is one of the biggest isopods known to science. | Continue reading


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How NASA is dealing with the 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field

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World-renowned climate scientist dies in ice accident in Greenland

Konrad Steffen was one of the world's leading experts on climate change. | Continue reading


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Entire cities could fit inside the moon's monstrous lava tubes

Just don't slice your spacesuit open on the cave wall. | Continue reading


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Mystery ancestor mated with ancient humans. And its 'nested' DNA was just found

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Physicists observe quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers

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Scientists unveil largest 3D map of the universe ever

The map includes more than 2 million galaxies and covers 11 billion years of the universe's history. | Continue reading


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The universe's clock might have bigger ticks than we imagine

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Does UV light kill the new coronavirus?

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Mysterious objects spotted in deep space are unlike anything ever seen

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Natural ELF fields in the atmosphere and in living organisms

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Looted skulls and human remains are being sold in black markets on Facebook

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Decapitated Sea Lions Found in Vancouver, BC

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Scientists discover spider wearing 'Joker' makeup, name it after Batman villain

A striking pattern on the spider's back resembles the Joker's trademark grin. | Continue reading


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Scientists create a pattern so complicated it's impossible to duplicate

It could quash counterfeiters. | Continue reading


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Why some physicists think there's a 'mirror universe' hiding in space-time

What happens if you turn space-time upside-down? | Continue reading


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Photos show 463-pound gorilla being CT scanned

The great ape suffered from nasal growths caused by rhinitis | Continue reading


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Amoeba (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin)

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Mysterious blue fireball streaks above Western Australia, puzzling astronomers

The strange fireball was caught on video. | Continue reading


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Einstein's core idea about gravity passed an extreme

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Physicists entangle 15T hot atoms

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How to stop police brutality, according to science

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The Full Strawberry Moon Is This Friday

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Oldest 'nearly complete' HIV genome found in forgotten tissue sample from 1966

The virus was found in a tissue sample from 1966, almost two decades before HIV was discovered. | Continue reading


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When Doomsday Isn't, Believers Struggle to Cope

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Sinkhole opens near the Pantheon, revealing 2k-year-old Roman paving stones

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@livescience.com | 4 years ago

Why Covid-19 kills some people and spares others

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'UFO' videos declassified by US Navy

Three videos show unidentified aircraft flying at hypersonic speeds. | Continue reading


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'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says

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Coronavirus seems to mutate much slower than seasonal flu

That could be good news for a vaccine. | Continue reading


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Mystery of 2 Million-year-old stone balls solved

Here's how ancient cave dwellers used these stone balls. | Continue reading


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TIL: Toxoplasmosis has not been known on Hawaii

The parasite is carried and spread by domestic felines | Continue reading


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Ozone hole three times the size of Greenland opens over the North Pole

Ozone holes open over the South Pole every year. Holes at the North Pole are much, much rarer. | Continue reading


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Phage Therapy

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Viral video advises washing fruit and vegetables with soap. Here's why that's a bad idea.

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Remains of 90M-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice

Fossil traces of an ancient rainforest were just unearthed in West Antarctica. | Continue reading


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Coronavirus may be most infectious when symptoms are mildest, small study finds

Those with mild COVID-19 infections may not be infectious after about 10 days of symptoms. | Continue reading


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