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Image credit: Trung Chenh Everything We Know About the Giant Fireball That Just Lit Up the Midwest Sky
If you were in the Midwest late Tuesday night and saw a bright streak tear across the sky, your eyes were working just fine.
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Flavio Coelho/Getty Images How Scientists Hacked People’s Dreams to Help Them Solve Real-Life Puzzles
A new study in Neuroscience of Consciousness tested whether researchers could steer dream content during REM sleep using audio cues.
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Space Frontier/Stringer/Getty Images Did NASA Find Life on Mars 50 Years Ago and Accidentally Kill It?
Back in 1976, NASA’s Viking Landers looked for life on Mars and came up empty. Today, a group of scientists thinks we accidentally killed it.
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CSA Archive/Getty Images Scientists Gave People ‘Smart Underwear’ and Found We Fart Way More Than We Admit
Fourteen farts a day always sounded suspiciously polite.
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Anand Purohit/Getty Images Something ‘Impossible’ Slammed Into Earth in 2023, and Scientists Have a Wild New Theory About It
The truth will depend on whether future detectors catch more neutrinos like this one.
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Avalon/Contributor/Getty Images Why Scientists Just Shot Lasers at Charles Darwin’s Priceless Specimens
Museums around the world hold more than 100 million fluid-preserved specimens, many of which are too fragile or dangerous to open.
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Xinhua News Agency/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Butterfly Scientists Just Grew in Space
The butterfly hatched while aboard the station and then lived in orbit, adapting to microgravity with seemingly no trouble.
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Tim Parker/Getty Images How Scientists Are Using Old Mattresses to Help Save Lives
Your old, filthy mattress could one day be turned into a fire-resistant building installation grown with fungus.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Everything We Know About the Asteroid That Might Hit the Moon in 2032
A strike would release around eight megatons of energy, more than enough to make it the most energetic lunar impact ever observed by humans.
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Humberto Ramirez/Getty Images 7 Animals That Do Truly Disgusting Things to Defend Themselves
Because nature is metal as heck.
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Aleksandra Konoplia/Getty Iges Is Pink Noise Ruining Your Sleep?
Pink noise is a soft, steady wall of sound that supposedly helps people fall asleep and stay asleep. But is it bad for you?
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Nicole Marschall/Getty Images The 6 Deadliest Snakes on Earth (and Why You Shouldn’t Panic About Them)
As real as the reputation may be, super venomous snakes aren’t out to get you.
