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NASA/Handout/Getty Images Conspiracy Theorists Are Already Trying (And Failing) to Discredit the Artemis II Mission
Conspiracy theorists are already trying to discredit NASA’s Artemis II mission, but the science behind their questions is pretty simple.
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Print Collector/Contributor/Getty Images Scientists Discovered a Lost Branch of Humanity That Survived the Ice Age
There might have been a previously unknown lineage of humans who called northern East Asia their home during the ice age.
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Xinhua News Agency/Contributor/Getty Images Why Scientists Gave These Plants Firefly DNA, and What It Could Mean for the Future
If a team of Chinese researchers has its way, the future of cities could look a lot more like organic, leafy laser tag arenas.
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Provincie Gelderland Museum Finds 8-Inch Ancient Roman Bone Penis in Unopened Box
The Valkhof Museum in Nijmegen recently discovered an ancient carved penis while cataloging the roughly 16,000 unopened artifact boxes.
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Dr. Michael Eisenberg, University of Haifa The ‘Sarcastic’ Message Archaeologists Found Carved Into This 2,100-Year-Old Bullet Is Pretty Hilarious
Somebody just had to get the last word before the violence started.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory How Scientists Found Thousands of Asteroids Hiding in Plain Sight
A new observatory has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids, including 33 near-Earth objects, before even reaching full operation.
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Image Credit: Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala These Tiny Fish Climb a 50-Foot Waterfall Every Year. Scientists Still Don’t Know Why.
It sounds like a legend or a lie, but it’s real, and researchers finally just got proof.
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The Earth Has 8.3 Billion People. This Is How Many It Can Actually Hold, According to Science.
Obviously, that’s a number we have severely overshot and will continue to build on that lead for the foreseeable future.
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Photo: CCTV Why Scientists Are Building a Massive 30-Story ‘Artificial Island’ in the Ocean
Its decks will be roughly the size of two American football fields, with a central “moon pool” big enough to deploy submersible vehicles.
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DrPixel/Getty Images Why Scientists Think This Asteroid Is the Core of a Dead Planet (and Extremely Valuable)
Scientists think this asteroid may be the metal-rich core of a failed planet, making it one of the most valuable objects in space.
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images The Cold, Hard Truth About Those Viral Videos of Meteors Slamming Into the Moon
It’s fake. Of course it’s fake. And it’s not even a convincing kind of fake if you know what the real thing looks like.
