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Hearts That Beat, Mechanical And Cold
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Hearts That Beat, Mechanical And Cold

By Seanan McGuire

Chemical Garden
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Recreating The ‘Shocking’ Origin Of Life In A Lab

By Mary Beth Griggs

Scientists In The United Kingdom Are ‘Fingerprinting’ Stolen Rocks
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Scientists In The United Kingdom Are ‘Fingerprinting’ Stolen Rocks

By Mary Beth Griggs

Sunshine Ninety-Nine
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Sunshine Ninety-Nine

By N.K. Jemisin

Watch The Moon Photobomb The Earth From 1 Million Miles Away
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Watch The Moon Photobomb The Earth From 1 Million Miles Away

By Mary Beth Griggs

What’s the Deal with Paranormal Ectoplasm?
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What’s the Deal with Paranormal Ectoplasm?

By Daniel Engber

See The Winning Photos From Our Blue Moon Instagram Contest
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See The Winning Photos From Our Blue Moon Instagram Contest

By Rebecca Harrington

Science Wants To Help You Straighten Your Hair Without Frying It
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Science Wants To Help You Straighten Your Hair Without Frying It

By Alexandra Ossola

Fly Over Mars In This Breathtaking New Animation
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Fly Over Mars In This Breathtaking New Animation

By Sarah Fecht

Are Office Temperatures Optimized For Men?
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Are Office Temperatures Optimized For Men?

By Mary Beth Griggs

New ‘Star Trek: TNG’ Doc Epically Burns The Show’s Creator
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New ‘Star Trek: TNG’ Doc Epically Burns The Show’s Creator

By Matt Giles

3D Color Images Of The Brain Reveal Its Glorious Unseen Detail
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3D Color Images Of The Brain Reveal Its Glorious Unseen Detail

By Claire Maldarelli

4 Things We Learned About Comets From The Busted Philae Lander
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4 Things We Learned About Comets From The Busted Philae Lander

By Sarah Fecht

Science Finally Understands How Cereal Gets Soggy
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Science Finally Understands How Cereal Gets Soggy

By Alexandra Ossola

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A Simple Way To Retrieve Info You Lost In A Black Hole

By Sarah Fecht

This is our best image of Pluto yet
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Pluto Has An Atmosphere, Moons, And Maybe Geological Activity. Can We Call It A Planet Now?

By Sarah Fecht

This Is Why Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashed, According To The NTSB
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This Is Why Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashed, According To The NTSB

By Eric Adams

Sarcasm May Make You More Creative
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Sarcasm May Make You More Creative

By Claire Maldarelli

Voyager’s Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud
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Voyager’s Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud

By Sarah Fecht

Kindergarteners Who Share May Be Successful in the Long Run
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Kindergarteners Who Share May Be Successful in the Long Run

By Kate Gammon

Latest Pics From New Horizons Reveal Flowing Ices And Pluto’s Dark Side
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Latest Pics From New Horizons Reveal Flowing Ices And Pluto’s Dark Side

By Sarah Fecht

Just One All-Nighter Can Alter Your Genes, Possibly For Years To Come
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Just One All-Nighter Can Alter Your Genes, Possibly For Years To Come

By G. Clay Whittaker

Will Mind Transfer Ever Happen?
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Will Mind Transfer Ever Happen?

By Erik Sofge

The Most Earth-Like Alien World Yet Has Been Found: Kepler 452b
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The Most Earth-Like Alien World Yet Has Been Found: Kepler 452b

By Sarah Fecht

Can Genetic Engineering Create Killers?
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Can Genetic Engineering Create Killers?

By Erik Sofge

‘Windbot’ Probes Designed To Explore Gas Giants
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‘Windbot’ Probes Designed To Explore Gas Giants

By Sarah Fecht

Do Computers Die Of Old Age?
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Do Computers Die Of Old Age?

By Daniel Engber

Space in a hot air balloon
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Balloons Are The Future of Space Tourism

By Cliff Ransom

Alvin and the Shipwreck
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Autonomous Underwater Probe Discovers American Revolution Shipwreck

By Mary Beth Griggs

Elon Musk Reveals Cause Of SpaceX Explosion
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Elon Musk Reveals Cause Of SpaceX Explosion

By Rebecca Boyle

Colonizing The Moon May Be 90 Percent Cheaper Than We Thought
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Colonizing The Moon May Be 90 Percent Cheaper Than We Thought

By Sarah Fecht

Earth
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This Is What Earth Looks Like From A Million Miles Away

By Mary Beth Griggs

Silicon Valley Titan Yuri Milner Bets $100M On Finding Alien Life
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Silicon Valley Titan Yuri Milner Bets $100M On Finding Alien Life

By Sarah Fecht

*Zhenyuanlong suni*
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This Is How Jurassic World’s Velociraptors Should Have Looked

By Mary Beth Griggs

Now That We’ve Explored All The Planets, What’s The Next Frontier?
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Now That We’ve Explored All The Planets, What’s The Next Frontier?

By Sarah Fecht

Why is Candy Crush So Addictive?
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Why is Candy Crush So Addictive?

By Daniel Engber

Here’s the View from the Highest Ever Orbital Mission
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Here’s the View from the Highest Ever Orbital Mission

By Amy Shira Teitel

An Asteroid Mining Test Vehicle Just Launched From The Space Station
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An Asteroid Mining Test Vehicle Just Launched From The Space Station

By Sarah Fecht

Here’s Why Screams Raise Your Mental Alarm
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Here’s Why Screams Raise Your Mental Alarm

By Alexandra Ossola

Does Hitting The Snooze Button Help Or Hurt?
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Does Hitting The Snooze Button Help Or Hurt?

By Daniel Engber

We Made It To Pluto! What’s Next For New Horizons?
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We Made It To Pluto! What’s Next For New Horizons?

By Sarah Fecht

What We’ve Learned From Pluto So Far
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What We’ve Learned From Pluto So Far

By Sarah Fecht

Prandtl-m
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The Drones

By James S.A. Corey

The Wanderer
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The Wanderer

By Karen Lord

Dispatches From The Future
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Dispatches From The Future

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Stratospheric Balloon
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Your New Ride To Space

By Kalee Thompson

How a ‘Farm Boy’ Found Pluto 85 Years Ago
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How a ‘Farm Boy’ Found Pluto 85 Years Ago

By Levi Sharpe

What New Horizons Is Looking For On Pluto, And How
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What New Horizons Is Looking For On Pluto, And How

By Jay Bennett

Mars Rock Samples Point to Earth-Like Crust
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Mars Rock Samples Point to Earth-Like Crust

By Mary Beth Griggs

Scientists imagined Pluton
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Why I Still Love Pluto

By Mike Brown

a conceptual drawing of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto
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Your Ultimate Guide To The Pluto Flyby

By Sarah Fecht

Meet The Triassic Period’s Oddest Couple
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Meet The Triassic Period’s Oddest Couple

By Maki Naro

Q&A With ‘The Pluto Doctor’
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Q&A With ‘The Pluto Doctor’

By Shannon Stirone

Pluton Planet
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How To See If Your Name Is Going To Pluto On The New Horizons Spacecraft

By Mary Beth Griggs

Screenshot of James Yoder's 'Stuff In Space' website
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See All The Satellites And Space Junk Circling Earth In Real-Time

By Carl Franzen

Five-Star Solar System ‘Puts Star Wars To Shame’
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Five-Star Solar System ‘Puts Star Wars To Shame’

By Alexandra Ossola

New Triceratops Relative Discovered, Named ‘Wendy’
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New Triceratops Relative Discovered, Named ‘Wendy’

By Mary Beth Griggs

This Is What It Looked Like the First Time We Saw Mars
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This Is What It Looked Like the First Time We Saw Mars

By Amy Shira Teitel

NASA Could Soon Launch A Giant Solar Sail Beyond Our Solar System
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NASA Could Soon Launch A Giant Solar Sail Beyond Our Solar System

By Dave Gershgorn

Can You Get A Smell Stuck In Your Head?
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Can You Get A Smell Stuck In Your Head?

By Daniel Engber

NASA Is Seriously Considering Terraforming Part of the Moon With Robots
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NASA Is Seriously Considering Terraforming Part of the Moon With Robots

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Huge, Alien-Hunting Telescope Could Become Hubble’s Successor
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Huge, Alien-Hunting Telescope Could Become Hubble’s Successor

By Sarah Fecht

Prandtl-m
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NASA Is Testing A Drone For Mars

By Kelsey D. Atherton

The Trouble With Nobel Prizes
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The Trouble With Nobel Prizes

By Maki Naro

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