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The Spanish Government Is Trying to Outlaw Peaceful Protest

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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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By Luis Prada
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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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By Luis Prada
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Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

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By Luis Prada
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Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

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Alaska’s Beluga Whales Have Wild Sex Lives—and It Keeps Them Alive

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