Bob Grant

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    Is the Moon Worth Mining?

    Lunar riches may lie in wait. But securing the bounty may be a logistical nightmare.

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    Before the Supermoon Showed Its Face It Flashed Us

    Twice

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    Can Lichen Light the Way to Dinosaur Finds?

    The bold idea to enlist satellites in the search for fossils

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    Have We Learned King Tut’s Lessons?

    Just over a century ago today, British archaeologists discovered the entrance to the Ancient Egyptian monarch’s tomb … eventually scattering its treasures far and wide

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    Are We Trashing Earth’s Loneliest Spot?

    Point Nemo, the most remote location on the planet, is serving as humanity’s cosmic junkyard

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    Your Exclamation Points Speak Volumes!

    Employing this most excitable of punctuation marks changes how its writer is perceived

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    Neanderthals May Have Invented the Original Crayon

    The most concrete evidence of the tools this human ancestor used to doodle

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    The Oldest Female Chimp in Captivity Dies

    RIP, Susie

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    Fentanyl’s Deadly Recipe

    The chemistry behind the synthetic opioid at the center of global trade tensions

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    The 19th-Century Entomologist Who Dreamed Up Daylight Savings

    Hungry for more light to find insects, this scientist championed the “unscientific and impractical” idea of changing time