Bob Grant

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    A photo of a young basking shark with a very large nose.

    Check Out the Beak on This Baby Basking Shark

    An intriguing image resurfaces from a decades-old paper

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    Evolution Is Written in Our Joints

    Why do humans have such stupid knees, ankles, and backs?

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    Space Is Raining Junk, and It’s Getting Worse

    With another hunk of space debris crashing down, the perils of a jampacked low-Earth orbit hit home

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    A quetzal, a type of colorful, tropical bird.

    This Natural History Museum Heist Rivals the Louvre Robbery

    A young music student lifted nearly 300 rare bird specimens from a British museum

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    Watch My Skeleton Dance for Science

    Taking part in a study on low back pain led to some spooky shenanigans

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    Earth’s Largest Mirror Shattered by Science

    The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine

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    These Aren’t Your Pharoah’s Mummies

    Other cultures across Asia were preserving their dead for millennia before the Egyptians

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    DNA’s Death Notice

    See original manuscripts, letters, photos, and jokes from luminaries like Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug, and Linus Pauling

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    Does Musical Taste Narrow with Age?

    What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve

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    Here’s Why Binge-Watching Is Good for You

    Rabidly consuming TV shows, movies, or books could make us more imaginative and able to cope with stress