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The Universe Will Decay a Lot Sooner than Expected
This week, we have stories about wild horses, wild chimps, and wild cosmic deaths.
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Ancient Poems Record the Decline of a Special Porpoise
The Yangtze finless porpoise is near extinction in the wild, but glimpses of its heyday can be found in centuries of Chinese poetry.
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These Tardigrades Have Tiny Tattoos
Tardigrades, tiny microscopic animals, woke up from suspended animation with body art.
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This Sicko Caterpillar Wears the Bones of Its Victims
Bite marks on the pelvis of a beheaded man provide the first direct physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat.
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Behold, a Genuinely Promising Sign of Alien Life
One of the most compelling cases for extraterrestrial life has been found on K2-18b, a planet 124 light years from Earth.
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The Ocean Spectacle that Has Entranced Sailors for Centuries
“It was like we were in the ‘Twilight Zone’ and peering at a negative of the real world,” said one mariner.
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This Device Translates Thoughts into Real-Time Speech
A novel brain device allowed a woman who had suffered a stroke to speak full sentences for the first time since 2005.
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What’s in Your Head? A Plastic Spoon and Lost Baby Memories
This week, we journey into the human brain and find some disturbing stuff in there.
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Jaws vs. the Megalodon: This Time, It’s Peer-Reviewed
The epic shark may have been a full 80 feet long with a slender build, according to new research.
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Scientists Made a ‘Woolly Mouse’ in Quest to Resurrect Mammoths
They are cute, but are they mammoths? No. They are mice.
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The Dude Whose Brain Turned to Glass
He was hanging out in an ancient Roman port town 2,000 years ago, when something struck him (a deadly volcanic eruption).