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What Baby Planets with the Density of Styrofoam Reveal
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The Amateur Archaeologist Who Found the Wrong Troy
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Inside the science of fast and slow thinking
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Milky Way’s Twin Causes Rethink of Galactic Evolution
The newly discovered precocious young galaxy appears to have formed in record time
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World-class musicians, athletes, and scientists aren’t often superstars as kids
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A Martian Milestone Captures a Mysterious Dark Spot
The idea came from a Colorado high school student
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Elephant Seals Almost Always Return Home to Give Birth
But do the benefits of these homecomings outweigh potential problems with genetic diversity?
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X-rays Were a Life-Saving Accident
More than a century ago, a lucky accident gave us a revolutionary new look at our bodies
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This Walking Ape Might Be the Earliest Human Ancestor
The limbs of Sahelanthropus tchadensis may settle a decades-long evolutionary debate
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Everything We Thought We Knew About How Stardust Spreads Across the Cosmos Is Wrong
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Most abstainers continue to drink less after the month is up