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Watch Grace Potter’s New Music Video About The Women Of NASA
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Watch Grace Potter’s New Music Video About The Women Of NASA

By Samantha Cole

Where Elon Musk’s Interplanetary Transporter Should Go Next
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Where Elon Musk’s Interplanetary Transporter Should Go Next

By Sarah Fecht

How NASA Goes to Space Without Leaving the Earth
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How NASA Goes to Space Without Leaving the Earth

By Amy Shira Teitel

SpaceX Explosion
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Could SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Really Launch Again By November?

By Sarah Fecht

Cards Against Humanity scholarship seeks to send women in STEM to college
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Cards Against Humanity scholarship seeks to send women in STEM to college

By Maki Naro

Scientists Force Snails To Exercise To See If It Affects Their Decision-Making Skills
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Scientists Force Snails To Exercise To See If It Affects Their Decision-Making Skills

By Sara Chodosh

3D Model of *Psittacosaurus*
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Dog-Sized Dinosaur Had Ideal Camouflage For Forests

By Mary Beth Griggs

Many Of The Eye’s Color-Sensing Cells Code For…Whiteness
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Many Of The Eye’s Color-Sensing Cells Code For…Whiteness

By Kate Baggaley

How To Make A Baby Without An Egg
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How To Make A Baby Without An Egg

By Sara Chodosh

Science Press Site ‘EurekAlert!’ Offline After Being Hacked
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Science Press Site ‘EurekAlert!’ Offline After Being Hacked

By Mary Beth Griggs

Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago
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Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago

By Mary Beth Griggs

The Man Who Defends Hardware From Hackers
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The Man Who Defends Hardware From Hackers

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

Astronomers Are Watching A Star Evolve In Real Time
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Astronomers Are Watching A Star Evolve In Real Time

By Kate Baggaley

The Woman Who Reimagines How The Brain Works
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The Woman Who Reimagines How The Brain Works

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

New Evidence Shows The Moon Formed From Melted Bits Of Earth
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New Evidence Shows The Moon Formed From Melted Bits Of Earth

By Rebecca Boyle

New Glenn rocket compared to others
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Jeff Bezos’s New Rocket Will Be Bigger Than Elon Musk’s

By Sarah Fecht

The motor driven articulated dummy
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Meet the Creepiest Android NASA Ever Built

By Amy Shira Teitel

Proteins In Your Hair Could Uniquely Identify You At A Crime Scene
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Proteins In Your Hair Could Uniquely Identify You At A Crime Scene

By Knvul Sheikh

You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s
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You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s

By Sarah Fecht

Hundreds Of Black Holes May Nestle Together In Our Galaxy
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Hundreds Of Black Holes May Nestle Together In Our Galaxy

By Charles Q. Choi

OSIRIS-REx Liftoff: Perfectly Executed, On Its Way To An Asteroid
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OSIRIS-REx Liftoff: Perfectly Executed, On Its Way To An Asteroid

By Samantha Cole

This Battery-Free Generator Is Made From Fish Scales
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This Battery-Free Generator Is Made From Fish Scales

By Kate Baggaley

Blue Origin Will Likely Blow Up Its Next Rocket
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Blue Origin Will Likely Blow Up Its Next Rocket

By Sarah Fecht

The Woman Who Predicts Septic Shock And Other Health Outcomes
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The Woman Who Predicts Septic Shock And Other Health Outcomes

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willard

The Man Whose Models Revealed A Possible Ninth Planet In Our Solar System
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The Man Whose Models Revealed A Possible Ninth Planet In Our Solar System

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

Digitizing The Oceans In Real Time
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Digitizing The Oceans In Real Time

By Ian Graber-Stiehl

The Brilliant 10 Of 2016
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The Brilliant 10 Of 2016

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

The Science Of Grilling: How Heat Transforms Steak
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The Science Of Grilling: How Heat Transforms Steak

By Jamie Leventhal

The Science Of Grilling: What Makes Steaks Juicy?
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The Science Of Grilling: What Makes Steaks Juicy?

By Jamie Leventhal

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Wolves Are Risk-Takers, According To New Research

By Samantha Cole

That Signal Wasn’t Aliens — It Was Coming From Earth
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That Signal Wasn’t Aliens — It Was Coming From Earth

By Samantha Cole

Jim Harris holding the final iteration of the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism.
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A Plastic Cup And A Shop Vacuum Could Rewrite The History Of The Solar System

By Samantha Cole

Blood-Guzzling Brain Key To Evolution Of Human Intelligence
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Blood-Guzzling Brain Key To Evolution Of Human Intelligence

By Coby McDonald

Tasmanian devil
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Tasmanian Devils Might Be Evolving To Resist Contagious Cancer

By Kate Baggaley

What Will Happen To OSIRIS-REx’s Asteroid Sample?
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What Will Happen To OSIRIS-REx’s Asteroid Sample?

By Amy Thompson

People Exiting The Hi-SEAS Habitat
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Year-Long ‘Mission To Mars’ Comes To An End In Hawaii

By Mary Beth Griggs

How Your Spit Evolved
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How Your Spit Evolved

By Kate Baggaley

Mount St Helens
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Astronaut Jeff Williams Celebrates The National Parks On The ISS

By Mary Beth Griggs

How We Could See The New ‘Earth-Like’ Planet Up Close
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How We Could See The New ‘Earth-Like’ Planet Up Close

By Charles Q. Choi

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Space Dust Could Destroy Our Best Shot At Getting To Proxima Centauri

By Samantha Cole

Welcome to the official Boxplot FAQ
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Welcome to the official Boxplot FAQ

By Maki Naro

Cultivated Carp ‘Reverse Evolve,’ Grow Scales Back
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Cultivated Carp ‘Reverse Evolve,’ Grow Scales Back

By Coby McDonald

Proxima b, one of 5,000 confirmed exoplanets.
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Our Closest Neighboring Star Has A Rocky, Earth-Sized Planet In Its Habitable Zone

By Mary Beth Griggs

How SciShow Explains The Science Of The World Around Us
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How SciShow Explains The Science Of The World Around Us

By Jason Lederman

Casein packaging
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Your Food Could Soon Come Packaged In Milk

By Brittany Vincent

Phillippines nest egg
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A Fisherman Found a 75-lb Pearl In A Giant Clam

By G. Clay Whittaker

Science Shows That Men Who Eat Salads Smell More Attractive To Women
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Science Shows That Men Who Eat Salads Smell More Attractive To Women

By Samantha Cole

*Tyrannosaurus rex* Skull
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Large Tyrannosaurus rex Skull Found In Montana

By Mary Beth Griggs

solar panel factory on the moon
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A Robot Army To Build Solar Panels (On The Moon)

By Sarah Fecht

Spider Man
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Marvel Announces Science, Tech, and Math-Devoted Comic Book Covers [Exclusive]

By Xavier Harding

Scientists Design Genome For Upgraded E. Coli
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Scientists Design Genome For Upgraded E. Coli

By Kate Baggaley

The Iceman Wore Five Different Animal Products When He Died
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The Iceman Wore Five Different Animal Products When He Died

By Mary Beth Griggs

The Woman Who Targets Cancer-Causing Mechanisms
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The Woman Who Targets Cancer-Causing Mechanisms

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

NASA’s Mission To Sample A Killer Asteroid Launches In September
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NASA’s Mission To Sample A Killer Asteroid Launches In September

By Sarah Fecht

This A.I. Program Can Identify Billions Of Stars
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This A.I. Program Can Identify Billions Of Stars

By Brittany Vincent

NASA Wants Help Capturing A Piece Of Asteroid
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NASA Wants Help Capturing A Piece Of Asteroid

By Samantha Cole

Scientist Thinks He’s Proven Hawking’s Theory That Black Holes Glow
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Scientist Thinks He’s Proven Hawking’s Theory That Black Holes Glow

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Jefferson Memorial Is Slowly Being Covered In Slime
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The Jefferson Memorial Is Slowly Being Covered In Slime

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

Titan
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Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Deep Canyons Flooded With Liquid

By Mary Beth Griggs

The Man Who Reroutes The World Using Geometry
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The Man Who Reroutes The World Using Geometry

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

Shyam Gollakota
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The Man Who Powers Devices With Wi-Fi

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

The Man Who Smuggles Nanodrugs Past The Body’s Defenses
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The Man Who Smuggles Nanodrugs Past The Body’s Defenses

By Veronique Greenwood and Cassandra Willyard

Squid Teeth Could One Day Help Repair Your Ripped Clothing
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Squid Teeth Could One Day Help Repair Your Ripped Clothing

By Mary Beth Griggs

Team investigates the Piltdown man
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Researchers Pin Down Old Fossil Hoax To One Suspect

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

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