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h2Geophagia – Why Some People Eat Soil, And Whether You Should Try It Too (Spoiler: No)
h3Watch A Rare Gobi Bear Finally Find Water After A 160-Kilometer Trek Through A “Waterless Place”
h3Jupiter, The Largest Planet In Our Solar System, Was Once Twice As Big
h3Myth, Mess, and Mitochondria: How The Biggest Bird To Ever Exist Evolved And Died In Madagascar
h3There's Only One Bird That Can Truly Fly Backwards
h3USA’s New Most Powerful Laser Comparable To 100 Times The Global Electricity Output
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h3Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Found With More Of A "Leopard Spot" Pattern Than Diamonds
h3Do People Really Not Know What Paprika Is Made From?
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h3The Real Reasons We Don’t Eat Turkey Eggs
h3The Year 536 CE Was One Of The Worst Periods In Human History
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h3We Now Know When Denisovans, Neanderthals, And Modern Humans Inhabited Denisova Cave
h3New Contact Lenses Give You Infrared Vision Even With Your Eyes Shut
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h3Newest Member Of The Solar System Just Announced – And It’s In An Extreme Orbit
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h3Six Living Relatives Of Leonardo Da Vinci Have Been Identified Using DNA, Claims New Book
h3This Neanderthal Skull Cave Was Used To Stash Heads For Generations
h3Tomb Of Roman Priestess Of The Goddess Ceres Found At Pompeii
h3What Happened In The First Human-To-Human Heart Transplant?
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h3Are Cold Sores Really Linked To Alzheimer’s Disease? Here’s What The Experts Are Saying
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h3Snooze Alarms Are Bad For Us, So Why Can’t We Quit Them?
h3What's Your Chronotype, And Why Should You Care?
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h3Only 2 Species Of This “Living Fossil” Exist – And 1 Was Just Photographed In The Wild For The First Time
h3This Strange, Supergiant Amphipod Inhabits Up To 59 Percent Of The World's Seabed
h3New Species Of Flapjack Octopus, A Shape-Shifting Cephalopod Of The Deep, Found In Australia
h3Flowers Have Been Blooming On Earth For 2 Million Years Longer Than We Thought
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h3Rare Moonlit Night On Mars Captured By Perseverance
h3Galaxy Blasts Its Companion With Radiation In Never-Before-Seen "Cosmic Joust"
h3"Improbable" Planet Is Orbiting A Stellar Odd-Couple The Wrong Way Round
h3The US Ran A Solar Storm Emergency Drill And It Suggested The Real Thing Would Be Catastrophic
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h3New Hypersonic Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Passes Real-World Milestone
h3Why Are Pencils Hexagonal?
h3Why Is The Uncanny Valley So Frightening? And What One Frowny Robot Is Doing To Overcome It
h3A Flying Car That Can Reach Over 155 MPH In Air Might Come To Market In 2026
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h3Why Do Leftovers (Sometimes) Taste Better The Next Day?
h3Being Sane In Insane Places: The Rosenhan Experiment Changed Psychiatry. But Was It All It Seemed?
h3Montana Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Prescribe Experimental Drugs Without FDA Approval
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