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Dr. Michael Eisenberg, University of Haifa The ‘Sarcastic’ Message Archaeologists Found Carved Into This 2,100-Year-Old Bullet Is Pretty Hilarious
Somebody just had to get the last word before the violence started.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory How Scientists Found Thousands of Asteroids Hiding in Plain Sight
A new observatory has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids, including 33 near-Earth objects, before even reaching full operation.
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Image Credit: Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala These Tiny Fish Climb a 50-Foot Waterfall Every Year. Scientists Still Don’t Know Why.
It sounds like a legend or a lie, but it’s real, and researchers finally just got proof.
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The Earth Has 8.3 Billion People. This Is How Many It Can Actually Hold, According to Science.
Obviously, that’s a number we have severely overshot and will continue to build on that lead for the foreseeable future.
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Photo: CCTV Why Scientists Are Building a Massive 30-Story ‘Artificial Island’ in the Ocean
Its decks will be roughly the size of two American football fields, with a central “moon pool” big enough to deploy submersible vehicles.
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DrPixel/Getty Images Why Scientists Think This Asteroid Is the Core of a Dead Planet (and Extremely Valuable)
Scientists think this asteroid may be the metal-rich core of a failed planet, making it one of the most valuable objects in space.
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images The Cold, Hard Truth About Those Viral Videos of Meteors Slamming Into the Moon
It’s fake. Of course it’s fake. And it’s not even a convincing kind of fake if you know what the real thing looks like.
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Peepo/Getty Images Why Future Humans Will Struggle to Get Pregnant in Space
The results were glaringly obvious: sperm weren’t any weaker or slower, but they had no idea where they were going.
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Manuel Romaris/Getty Images Hummingbirds Drink a Ton of Alcoholic Nectar, But Do They Get Drunk?
We are desperate to know whether we have drinking buddies out there in the animal kingdom.
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Silaphop Pongsai/Getty Images Freaky New Spider Disguises Itself as Zombie Fungus to Hunt Prey
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have identified a spider species that survives by playing dead.
