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Vicki Jauron/Babylon and Beyond Photography/Getty Images Are Orcas Cannibalizing Each Other? Chewed Up Fins Are Washing Ashore.
Scientists say the grisly finds could point to scavenging, infighting, or something even darker in the ocean food chain.
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Three Lions/Stringer/Getty Images CT Scans Reveal the Horrors of Being an Incan Child Sacrifice
Researchers found that children who were sacrificed to appease the gods were drunk and drugged for up to a year before they died.
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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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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 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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Alex Wong/Staff/Getty Images NASA’s Pandora Mission Will Help the James Webb Telescope Find New Habitable Planets
If Pandora functions as it’s designed to, it’ll help us figure out if there’s life out there in the universe.
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