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The Pentagon Is Ready to Give Soldiers Jetpacks
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Physicists Measure the Smallest Gravitational Field Ever Detected
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A Brief History of Sea-Monkeys
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New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole
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Explore Sounds and Images From Mars Sent Home From NASA’s Perseverance Rover
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Fukushima disaster: What happened at the nuclear plant?
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Is this the end of forests as we’ve known them?
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The Dire Possibility of Cyberattacks on Weapons Systems
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Winners of the 2020 World Nature Photography Awards
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Rare meteorite, a ‘relic of the early solar system,’ falls on a driveway in England
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Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable?
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Physicists Create Time Reversed Optical Waves – “Like Watching a Movie in Reverse”
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Researchers Reveal the Benefits of Tea Compounds on Hypertension
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What Is Life? Its Vast Diversity Defies Easy Definition.
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On this day in 1974 a Japanese soldier was finally relieved from his WW2 post
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Pollen can raise your risk of getting COVID-19, whether you have allergies or not
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Video: What if the World turned to Gold? [9:16]
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The Grand Canyon’s Caves Are Full of Sloth Dung and Mummified Bats
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Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base
arstechnica.com

Florence Price: Forgotten work by pioneering composer rediscovered
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The Army’s New Goggles Let Soldiers See Right Through Walls
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The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
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How to Figure Out the Mass of Earth—With Balls and String
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Suffrage and Polygamy in Utah
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Surreal sights in the Black and White Minimalist Photography Awards
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Fully vaccinated Americans can safely visit unvaccinated family, CDC says
arstechnica.com

This Is a Piece of a Lost Protoplanet, And It’s Officially Older Than Earth
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What It’s Like to Lose Someone to Covid-19
nytimes.com

New York woman discovers secret apartment behind bathroom mirror
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Egyptologists translate the oldest-known mummification manual
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A year into the pandemic, the coronavirus is messing with our minds as well as our bodies
theconversation.com

Kathleen Folbigg: how genetics could lead to a pardon for ‘Australia’s worst female serial killer’
theguardian.com

How Kenya is harnessing the immense heat from the Earth
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Scientists identify over 140,000 virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science
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These Slugs Cut Off Their Own Heads When They Want a New Body
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Astronomers discover most distant source of radio emission known to date
sciencefocus.com

Researchers reprogram glial cells into new neurons to heal spinal cord injury
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Caterina van Hemessen: An unknown visual pioneer
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The Game of Chess Had Patch Notes, Too
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How early humans’ quest for food stoked the flames of evolution
theguardian.com

Fruit bats are the only bats that can’t (and never could) use echolocation. Now we’re closer to knowing why
theconversation.com

On this day in 1775 a handsome young apothecary named Robert Perreau entered a London bank with a simple, if somewhat extravagant request
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Someone Is Hacking the Hackers
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NASA sent thousands of worms to space to solve a major problem
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Study: It Turns Out You Can Bullshit A Bullshitter After All
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There’s No Real Reason to Eat 3 Meals a Day
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Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’
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The man who saves cats in Fukushima’s nuclear zone
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‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping
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January warm spells, March freezes: How plants manage the shift from winter to spring
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New flu vaccine outperforms current offerings, may lead to universal flu vaccine
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100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated
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What happens when you turn a psychopath into a therapist?
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They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror (1987)
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Scientists Want to Destroy Zombie Satellites With Lasers. What Could Go Wrong?
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