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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES How Scientists Use Earthquake Sensors to Track Space Junk Crashing to Earth
Our atmosphere is loaded with space junk, and every once in a while, it comes plummeting down to Earth in a rain of fire.
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Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty Images Why These Elephants Sometimes Raid Farms for Their Bananas
Farmers in Gabon have to deal with elephants eating all their crops. But why?
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Matt Cardy/Stringer/Getty Images Researchers Finally Figured Out How Stonehenge Happened. Well, Maybe.
And no, it wasn’t glaciers.
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Ullstein bild/Contributor/Getty Images Everything We Know About the Massive Great White Shark Spotted Near Florida
A 14-foot-long, 1,600-pound great white shark named Contender has been detected off Florida’s coast… again.
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Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images Everything You Need to Know About the ‘Solar Eclipse of the Century,’ Including How to See It
Two total solar eclipses are coming up, with one widely labeled as the “eclipse of the century.”
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SB/Getty Images 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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THE PALMER/GETTY IMAGES 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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Tunart/Getty Images Why Some People Laugh at Funerals, According to Science
The harder you fight it, the worse it gets.
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