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Baffling CERN Results Show Neutrinos Moving Faster Than the Speed of Light
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Baffling CERN Results Show Neutrinos Moving Faster Than the Speed of Light

By Clay Dillow

What Is the Point of the Female Orgasm?
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What Is the Point of the Female Orgasm?

By Jennifer Abbasi

Suntory Creates Mythical Blue (Or, Um, Lavender-ish) Rose
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Suntory Creates Mythical Blue (Or, Um, Lavender-ish) Rose

By Dan Nosowitz

Kepler Spots a Planet Orbiting Two Suns, Just Like Star Wars’ Tatooine
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Kepler Spots a Planet Orbiting Two Suns, Just Like Star Wars’ Tatooine

By John Mahoney and Katie Peek

The Mystery of Wrinkly-When-Wet Fingers, Solved
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The Mystery of Wrinkly-When-Wet Fingers, Solved

By Dan Nosowitz

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
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Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation

By Dan Nosowitz

All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says
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All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says

By Rebecca Boyle

New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon
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New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon

By Paul Adams

High School Inventors 2011
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High School Inventors 2011

By Katherine Bagley

Japanese Domino’s Unveils Elaborate, Carefully Thought-Out Plans to Sling Pizza on the Moon
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Japanese Domino’s Unveils Elaborate, Carefully Thought-Out Plans to Sling Pizza on the Moon

By Dan Nosowitz

To Fight Warming, Brits Plan to Launch a Huge Balloon and Really Long Pipe
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To Fight Warming, Brits Plan to Launch a Huge Balloon and Really Long Pipe

By Clay Dillow

New ‘Goldilocks’ Exoplanet Could be the Most Earth-Like We’ve Yet Seen
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New ‘Goldilocks’ Exoplanet Could be the Most Earth-Like We’ve Yet Seen

By Clay Dillow

Fermilab Astrophysicist’s Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half
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Fermilab Astrophysicist’s Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half

By Dan Nosowitz

Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything
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Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything

By Rebecca Boyle

Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials
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Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials

By Rebecca Boyle

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation
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Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation

By Rebecca Boyle

Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever
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Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever

By Rebecca Boyle

Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever
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Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever

By Clay Dillow

Video: What’s Wrong With the “Flintstones” Approach to Braking
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Video: What’s Wrong With the “Flintstones” Approach to Braking

By Adam Weiner

Earth-Generated Panspermia: Scientists Describe How Earth Rocks Could Have Seeded the Rest of the Solar System With Life
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Earth-Generated Panspermia: Scientists Describe How Earth Rocks Could Have Seeded the Rest of the Solar System With Life

By Rebecca Boyle

Luxury Getaways of the Future: Visit Orbital Technologies’ Space Hotel
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Luxury Getaways of the Future: Visit Orbital Technologies’ Space Hotel

By Rebecca Boyle

World’s Oldest Fossils Show Sulfur-Based Microbes Lived 3.4 Billion Years Ago, Presenting a New Target for Astrobiology
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World’s Oldest Fossils Show Sulfur-Based Microbes Lived 3.4 Billion Years Ago, Presenting a New Target for Astrobiology

By Rebecca Boyle

You Call This School? The 25 Coolest College Labs in the Country
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You Call This School? The 25 Coolest College Labs in the Country

By Andrew Rosenblum

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Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea
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Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea

By Adam Hadhazy

Blackest Planet Ever Found, Absorbs Nearly 100% of Light That Reaches It
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Blackest Planet Ever Found, Absorbs Nearly 100% of Light That Reaches It

By Clay Dillow

‘Epidermal Electronics’ Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo
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‘Epidermal Electronics’ Paste Peelable Circuitry On Your Skin, Just Like A Temporary Tattoo

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: Can a Woman Really Lift a Car Off Her Pinned Child?
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FYI: Can a Woman Really Lift a Car Off Her Pinned Child?

By Julie Beck

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space
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Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

By Clay Dillow

Carefully Engineered to Survive Fierce Radiation, Juno Probe Launches Today to Visit Jupiter
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Carefully Engineered to Survive Fierce Radiation, Juno Probe Launches Today to Visit Jupiter

By Rebecca Boyle

Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons That Collided to Form the One We Know
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Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons That Collided to Form the One We Know

By Rebecca Boyle

Reengineering the University
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Reengineering the University

By Matthew Yglesias

The Man Who Would Stop Time
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The Man Who Would Stop Time

By Joseph Hooper

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Nissan Leaf™ Rules

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With Shuttle Launches Over, Cleanup of Launch Zone Chemicals Will Take Decades and Millions of Dollars
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With Shuttle Launches Over, Cleanup of Launch Zone Chemicals Will Take Decades and Millions of Dollars

By Rebecca Boyle

Appeals Court Upholds Companies’ Right to Patent Genes, But the Future of Gene Research Remains Unclear
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Appeals Court Upholds Companies’ Right to Patent Genes, But the Future of Gene Research Remains Unclear

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: What Is The Most Dangerous Piece Of Laboratory Equipment?
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FYI: What Is The Most Dangerous Piece Of Laboratory Equipment?

By Joseph A. Bernstein

Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues
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Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, Biologist Argues

By Rebecca Boyle

Acoustic Diode Only Lets Sound Travel in One Direction (Read: True Soundproofing)
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Acoustic Diode Only Lets Sound Travel in One Direction (Read: True Soundproofing)

By Clay Dillow

Amateur Astronomer Discovers Blue-Raspberry-Shaped Planetary Nebula
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Amateur Astronomer Discovers Blue-Raspberry-Shaped Planetary Nebula

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Scientists Determine Photons Can Travel No Faster Than The Speed of Light
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Scientists Determine Photons Can Travel No Faster Than The Speed of Light

By Julie Beck

Universe’s Largest Water Reservoir Discovered in Black Hole
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Universe’s Largest Water Reservoir Discovered in Black Hole

By Julie Beck

Fresh Data From CERN and Tevatron Gives A Glimpse of the God Particle
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Fresh Data From CERN and Tevatron Gives A Glimpse of the God Particle

By Rebecca Boyle

Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution
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Some Mice Have Become Immune to Poison Through Natural but Highly Unusual Evolution

By Dan Nosowitz

The Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly Solved at Last
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The Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly Solved at Last

By Natalie Wolchover

One Last Pic: Atlantis’s Glowing Re-Entry, Captured from the ISS
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One Last Pic: Atlantis’s Glowing Re-Entry, Captured from the ISS

By Clay Dillow

Big Science: The 10 Most Ambitious Experiments in the Universe Today
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Big Science: The 10 Most Ambitious Experiments in the Universe Today

In Which We Battle the Obstacles of Range and Recharge Times
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In Which We Battle the Obstacles of Range and Recharge Times

By Pierce Hoover

Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight
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Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight

By Denise Ngo

Next-Generation Gelatin Could be Derived from Humans Instead of Animals
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Next-Generation Gelatin Could be Derived from Humans Instead of Animals

By Clay Dillow

Happy Anniversary, Neptune! After 165 Years, The Most Distant Planet is Back Where We Found It
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Happy Anniversary, Neptune! After 165 Years, The Most Distant Planet is Back Where We Found It

By Clay Dillow

How We Determined the Ten Biggest Science Projects
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How We Determined the Ten Biggest Science Projects

By Martha Harbison

Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts
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Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts

By Dan Nosowitz

As Humans Take Leave of Space, Robot Explorers Will Go Farther and Look Closer Than Ever
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As Humans Take Leave of Space, Robot Explorers Will Go Farther and Look Closer Than Ever

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: What is the Hottest Pepper in the World?
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FYI: What is the Hottest Pepper in the World?

By Paul Adams

Is American Foot-Dragging Pushing the Future Elsewhere?
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Is American Foot-Dragging Pushing the Future Elsewhere?

By Clay Dillow

House Subcommittee’s Budget Bill Puts Most Powerful Space Telescope on the Chopping Block
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House Subcommittee’s Budget Bill Puts Most Powerful Space Telescope on the Chopping Block

By Rebecca Boyle

The Science of Gaydar: How Ovulation and Sexy Stories Sharpen Sexual Perception
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The Science of Gaydar: How Ovulation and Sexy Stories Sharpen Sexual Perception

By Jennifer Abbasi

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Sweepstakes Rules

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Human Belly Button Is Home to Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Species
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Human Belly Button Is Home to Hundreds of Never-Before-Seen Species

By Rebecca Boyle

Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?
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Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?

By Damon Tabor

After Thousands of Years of Research, We’re Still Trying to Figure Out Static Electricity
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After Thousands of Years of Research, We’re Still Trying to Figure Out Static Electricity

By Clay Dillow

Curiosity Rover Mission Has Narrowed Possible Destinations Down to Two
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Curiosity Rover Mission Has Narrowed Possible Destinations Down to Two

By Clay Dillow

Years After Crash Landing in 2004, NASA’s Genesis Reveals Data About Solar Chemistry
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Years After Crash Landing in 2004, NASA’s Genesis Reveals Data About Solar Chemistry

By Clay Dillow