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How Three Students Designed an Atomic Bomb
A top-secret 1960s project tasked physics postdocs with building The Bomb
Koalas Recover Genetic Diversity as Populations Expand
Their rebound shows resilience after a severe genetic bottleneck
Watch How Planet-Hopping Microbes Can Survive Asteroid Strikes
This polyextremophile bacterium could survive an interplanetary trip
Paleontologists Solve the Mystery of a Twisted Jawbone With Sideways Teeth
The Tanyka was a little like a platypus
World’s Largest Acid Geyser Erupts, Right in Our Backyard
Yellowstone National Park is home to the world’s most impressive geysers
Watch How Water Bears Can Survive in Martian Dirt
There’s a way for the tiny resilient creatures to thrive even on the red planet
Laughing Off Your Mistakes Makes You Seem More Competent
“People often overestimate how harshly others judge their minor social mistakes”
New Jellyfish Species Gets Its Michelin Star Moment
The newly described species went mislabeled for years
The Surprising Reason Female Caribou Grow Antlers
Shed antlers offer a valuable mineral supplement for moms
60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells Depict Ancient Human Thoughts
Homo sapiens were grooving on geometry in the Stone Age
