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Does Running Marathons Wreck Your Heart? A New Study Has Answers.

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Interesting, because they don’t have brains, or spinal cords, or even an anus like us.

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Scientists Kept an Inner Ear Alive Outside the Body—But Why?

A bunch of gerbils are now deaf in the hopes that deaf humans will one day hear.

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Will Astronauts One Day Be Sent to Space to Mine Asteroids?

These boys may make great astronauts, but they don’t know jack about drilling.

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We’re at work having a silly goofy time!

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