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Photo: Heather Paul / Getty Images Scientists Captured the First-Ever Photos of a Mysterious Island Fox, and It’s Pretty Adorable
This also marks the first verified sighting of the fox in almost two decades.
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Photo: Rytis Bernotas / Getty Images Your Brain Gets Strangely Good at This When You’re Hungry
Hunger doesn’t just make you want food.
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A whale skeleton, not one of the whale skeletons. Photo: Placebo365 / Getty Images Scientists Found a Massive Whale Graveyard That’s Been Filling Up for 5 Million Years
It might be home to entirely new species.
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Photo: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology / Eurac Research / Marion Lafogler Why Scientists Used a 5,000-Year-Old Mummy to Bake Freaky Sourdough Bread
It’s exactly what any rational, sane, well-adjusted person would do with yeast microbes found on a 5,000-year-old mummy.
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Photo: wildpixel / Getty Images Millions of People Report Hearing a Mysterious Low-Frequency Hum. Scientists Think They Know Why.
Some who hear it have gone as far as to blame it on a vast government conspiracy.
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Photo: Love Dalén Scientists Discovered Ice Age Cave Lions Never Fully Disappeared
Cave lions went extinct around 13,000 years ago, but their DNA lingers on today.
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Photo: gorodenkoff / Getty Images Scientists Discovered an Unexpected Side Effect of Working the Night Shift
It’s literally, though subtly, changing the physical structure of the brain itself.
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Photo: Olga Rolenko / Getty Images There’s a New Definition of Obesity, and a Good Chance It Now Includes You
What even is “normal” anymore?
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Photo: sutiporn somnam / Getty Images Scientists Think They’ve Solved a Long-Standing Mystery Around Nicotine
The tobacco plant was playing tricks on them.
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Photo: natasaadzic / Getty Images Scientists Created a New Biological Clock That Reveals How Much Time You Have Left
The practical effects of a tool like this would extend further beyond a simple predictor of death.
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