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The bubbly chemistry behind carbonated beverages

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Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves

On this day in 1984, 37 people died when a nearby lake exploded

Futuristic Paper Shows It’s Feasible to Build a Space Station on an Asteroid

How Rocks and Minerals Play with Light to Produce Breathtaking Colors

A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus

This Molecule May Have Seeded Earth Life

Michigan State students discover traces of school’s first observatory built in 1881

This solar cycle, the sun’s activity is more powerful and surprising than predicted

100-year ‘megastorms’ on Saturn shower the ringed planet in ammonia rain

On this day in 1977 the Big Ear radio observatory in Ohio detected something inexplicable

Earth’s story is not about dynasties but communities

‘Written out of the history books’: the British spy who planned Iranian coup

No One Ever Thought They’d Get Famous Playing This Dorky Game. Then This Guy Came Along.

Astronomers find a brown dwarf that’s hotter than the Sun

The Microbiome and Its Myth-Making Machine

Researchers create 3D-printed vegan seafood

Weather Engineering Could Short Circuit Intense Storms — But It Comes With Big Consequences

17 years into its mission, NASA’s STEREO spacecraft visits home

1610: Dawn of the Extraterrestrial

England’s mysterious sunken roads

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“Demon particle” accidentally discovered, solving 67-year mystery

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Judge rules in favor of youths in landmark Montana climate trial

A new technique is to be trialled in an attempt to put out a fire which has been burning underground for two years

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There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit

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The Shadowy History Behind the Fight to Save the Redwoods

An Experiment Buried Deep Inside an Abandoned Gold Mine Could Solve a Huge Physics Mystery

Teen Survives Terrifying 100-Foot Fall at the Grand Canyon

5 Years, 430,000 MPH, and Counting: How NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Making History

US woman breaks Guinness World Record for longest female beard

JWST Turns its Gaze on the Farthest Known Star: Earendel

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What’s the largest planet in the universe?

Long COVID may be caused by damage to cells’ energy generators

Scientists Alarmed by What Space Station Astronauts Appear to Be Breathing

Surprising Surrealism by Erik Johansson

Virgin Galactic takes its first tourists to the edge of space

On this day in 1920, Mr. Ponzi’s scheme unraveled

New evidence suggests the world’s largest known asteroid impact structure is buried deep in southeast Australia

Bacteria found in hot springs may be closest to mitochondria precursor

The Life of a Lawyer in the Late Roman Republic

Russia launches lunar lander in race to find water on moon

Photos: Deadly Wildfires Sweep Across Maui

It Took $1.7 Billion to Fix Fire Island’s Beaches. One Storm Wrecked Them.

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