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DHL explores familiar shipping option: wind power
French start-up VELA claims its massive sailboat can move 415 metric tons across the Atlantic, using only the wind.
Over 60 million stars dazzle in new image of the Milky Way
The two-ton Euclid Space Telescope created the most detailed image of the galactic bulge to date.
Great apes (including us) have been giggling for 15 million years
Laughter likely evolved when megalodons stalked Earth’s seas.
Two ‘super-puff’ planets are as wispy as cotton candy
TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c are about the size of Jupiter, but 28–35 times less dense.
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As the world warms, the risk of snakebites is rising
Millions of people are bitten by snakes every year. Climate change is increasing human-snake encounters, even as many countries remain ill-equipped to treat victims.
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Burial site of all-female extinct human relatives baffles scientists
‘Homo naledi’ may have had complex death rituals and funky genes.
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