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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 12th, 2015
458-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Craters Found in Sweden

458-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Craters Found in Sweden

The two craters sit 16 kilometers (9 miles) from one another

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 12th, 2015
Mammoth Galaxy Cluster Discovered 9.8 Billion Light-Years Away

Mammoth Galaxy Cluster Discovered 9.8 Billion Light-Years Away

The cluster holds the mass equivalent to 400 trillion Suns

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 12th, 2015
Study Finds Evidence Junk Food Makes the Brain Shrink

Study Finds Evidence Junk Food Makes the Brain Shrink

Here's another reason to lay off chips and hamburgers

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 12th, 2015
NASA's Curiosity Rover Sees Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars

NASA's Curiosity Rover Sees Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars

Similar formations are found in the US Southwest

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 11th, 2015
Elon Musk Suggests We Nuke Mars to Make It Habitable - Video

Elon Musk Suggests We Nuke Mars to Make It Habitable - Video

Well, to be fair, he was probably just joking

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 11th, 2015
NASA's Scientific Take on Pluto's Topography: “It's Complicated”

NASA's Scientific Take on Pluto's Topography: “It's Complicated”

Because, you know, all hail scientific accuracy

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 11th, 2015
Researchers Describe Antibody That Can Attack and Neutralize HIV

Researchers Describe Antibody That Can Attack and Neutralize HIV

The antibody is effective in different stages of infection

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 11th, 2015
“Lightning Claw” Is Australia's Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur

“Lightning Claw” Is Australia's Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur

The beast lived about 110 million years ago

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 11th, 2015
Distant Galaxy Resembles a Cosmic Sunflower in New Hubble View

Distant Galaxy Resembles a Cosmic Sunflower in New Hubble View

The galaxy, Messier 63, sits 27 million light-years away

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 11th, 2015
World's First Full Head Transplant Will Happen in December 2017

World's First Full Head Transplant Will Happen in December 2017

Or so Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero says

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 11th, 2015
Cooking Up Light Molecules Is the First Step to Forging Lightsabers

Cooking Up Light Molecules Is the First Step to Forging Lightsabers

And researchers think they know how to do it

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 10th, 2015
Meet the Scientist Who Last Took a Bath 12 Years Ago

Meet the Scientist Who Last Took a Bath 12 Years Ago

He hasn't showered either or at least used wet wipes

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 10th, 2015
NASA: Volcanoes on Jupiter's Moon Io Are in the “Wrong” Place

NASA: Volcanoes on Jupiter's Moon Io Are in the “Wrong” Place

This could be because of a hidden ocean of magma

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 10th, 2015
Guys OD on Hamburgers, Pizza and Cookies, All for Science

Guys OD on Hamburgers, Pizza and Cookies, All for Science

Here's a study you probably would've loved signing up for

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 10th, 2015
A Solar Eclipse Will Happen over the Weekend

A Solar Eclipse Will Happen over the Weekend

On September 13, the Moon will move in front of the Sun

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 10th, 2015
They've Found a New Human Species in South Africa

They've Found a New Human Species in South Africa

These ancestors of ours kind of looked like hobbits

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  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • September 10th, 2015
Researchers: Smoking Isn't a Sure Death Sentence

Researchers: Smoking Isn't a Sure Death Sentence

Some smokers live to extreme ages, investigation reveals

 
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