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Heavy-metal alien planet may be shaped like a footballAn exoplanet may be shaped like an American football due to the mighty gravitational forces it experiences close to its star, a new study finds.
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Space-time is swirling around a dead star, proving Einstein right againThe way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein's theory of general relativity, a new study finds.
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Humanity's Oldest Cave Art Shows Shape-Shifting Supernatural HuntersResearchers have discovered humanity's oldest cave art. The paintings depict a hunting scene with what may be part-animal, part-human figures.
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Ancient Ape with 'Human Legs' and 'Orangutan Arms' Moved Like No Other Creature on EarthThis weird locomotion has never been seen until now.
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The 'Gay Gene' Is a Total Myth, Massive Study ConcludesBut collectively, genes do play a role in sexual orientation.
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Earliest Evidence of Human Mountaineers Found in EthiopiaPrevious research had suggested that high-altitude regions such as Tibet and the Andes were among the last places peopled by humans.
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Maya Civilization Was Ultraviolent, Even Before Its CollapseHieroglyphic inscription may overturn view of the Maya.
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity Holds Up Around a Supermassive Black HoleAstronomers have shown that Einstein's ideas about the warping of space and time holds true as the best description yet of how gravity works.
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Civilization-Collapsing Megadroughts of Medieval Times Could Be in Store for a Warming EarthFrom the 800s to the 1400s, about a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest, and all lasted longer than a decade.
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Could an Injection of Dead Cells Help Fight Cancer?Dead cells in the body don't sound very useful, but they might provide a new way to fight cancer, a new study in animals suggests.
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Neanderthals May Have Been Driven to Extinction by a Tiny Drop in Fertility RatesJust a slight dip in the fertility rates of Neanderthals could explain their extinction over the course of several thousand years.
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How Tiny Crustaceans Survive the Crushing Pressures of the Mariana TrenchAs if preparing for battle, some shrimplike creatures suit up in aluminum armor to survive the ravages of the deepest part of the oceans, a new study finds.
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'Hippie Chimps' Had Sex with Mysterious 'Ghost Ape' Hundreds of Thousands of Years AgoMysterious "ghost apes" may have interbred with the great apes known as bonobos just as modern humans repeatedly had sex with now-extinct human lineages.
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The First Known Interstellar Meteor May Have Hit Earth in 2014The 3-foot-wide rock rock visited us three years before 'Oumuamua.
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This Newfound Extinct Human Lineage Also Mated with Modern HumansAn entirely new lineage of the mysterious human relatives called Denisovans has been discovered.
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What Exactly Is a Black Hole Event Horizon (and What Happens There)?The event horizon is the threshold around the black hole where the escape velocity surpasses the speed of light. Here's what that means.
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Why Saturn's 'Ring Moons' Are Different Colors and ShapesThe probe's death death dive helped shed light on the mystery.
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When Ancient Societies Hit a Million People, Vengeful Gods AppearedFrom a societal standpoint, you need a divine power watching you only if your neighbor isn't doing so.
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How a Distant Alien World Was Saved from an Interstellar ExileA distant alien world that was potentially on its way into exile in interstellar space was rescued by the gravitational pull of a passing pair of stars, a new study argues.
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Ripples in Space-Time Could Help Solve Cosmic Mystery of How Fast Universe Is ExpandingAnalyzing ripples in the fabric of space and time created by pairs of dead stars may soon solve a cosmic mystery surrounding how quickly the universe is expanding — if scientists are lucky.
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Do You Carry Neanderthal DNA? The Shape of Your Skull May Tell.The shape of your brain may say a lot about the Neanderthal in you.
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Ancient, Unknown Strain of Plague Found in 5,000-Year-Old Tomb in SwedenIn a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Neanderthals and Humans Were Hooking Up Way More Than Anyone ThoughtWay more sex happened between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans across Europe and Asia than scientists originally thought, a new study finds.
