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NASA, ESA, Dennis Bodewits (AU); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Up in Real Time, and the Images Are Wild
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers captured detailed images of a comet as it began to tear itself apart.
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Mark Metcalfe/Stringer/Getty Images Scientists Just Found Out the Platypus Is Even Weirder Than We Thought
The more we learn about the platypus, the more it seems like it’s the product of Mother Nature going through a weird experimental phase.
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By Wildestanimal/Getty Images Sharks in the Bahamas Are Full of Cocaine, Caffeine, and Painkillers
Species affected included nurse sharks, Caribbean reef sharks, and a juvenile lemon shark.
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Asteroid Ryugu Asteroid Ryugu Is Carrying All 5 DNA Building Blocks of Life. Could There Be Another Earth in the Universe?
All five of the essential building blocks of DNA and RNA, known as nucleobases, exist on the asteroid Ryugu.
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Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images 4 Zodiac Signs Set for Powerful Fresh Starts This Spring Equinox
For these four signs, this spring equinox is your moment.
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Francesco Carta Fotografo/Getty Images Meditating Regularly Does Something Strange to the Structure of Your Brain
Meditation can calm your brain, while making it physically bigger, chunkier, meatier—those are good things, by the way.
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DEA Picture Library/Contributor/Getty Images What Archaeologists Found Written on Those 43,000 Egyptian Notes and Receipts
Archaeologists have uncovered more than 43,000 ostraca, aka pottery shards and limestone flakes used for writing, at the Athribis site in Upper Egypt.
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Northwestern/YouTube Scientists Taught an AI to ‘Evolve’ Robots, Then Built the Weirdest Ones in Real Life
The results are appropriately freaky and weird.



