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Two of Canada’s Astronaut Finalists Tell Us Where in Space They’d Like to Fly

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Tech

Sally Ride’s Astronaut Class Completely Changed NASA’s Demographics

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Life

Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video

Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.

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Life

Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop

These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.

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Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

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Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

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