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Will the Doomsday Clock move forward or back? Watch live to find outThe Doomsday Clock debuted 75 years ago to highlight the threat of nuclear weapons to our survival as a species, a risk now accompanied by escalating climate change and global pandemics.
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Look up! A 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will safely zip by Earth on Jan. 18An enormous asteroid more massive than two Empire State Buildings will zoom harmlessly past Earth next week. Look up!
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Rare and fragile fossils found at a secret site in Australia's 'dead heart'A site in Australia that holds thousands of astonishingly well-preserved fossils has been kept a closely guarded secret among paleontologists for the past three years.
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Ancient dog-headed statue found during Roman road excavationDuring an archaeological inspection of a waterway project site in Rome, archaeologists found ancient funerary relics, including a terracotta statue with a dog's head.
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'Cosmic monster' star spits energy with the force of a billion sunsScientists just collected the first measurements of violent eruptions in extremely dense magnetic stars called magnetars.
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8 ominous climate milestones reached in 2021Signs of accelerating global warming abounded this year, but we could still prevent the worst-case scenarios — if we act soon.
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Live Science's best of 2021: Writers' choiceIn a year of unusual and surprising news at Live Science, these stories stood out.
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Social vomit and hairy eyeballs: 10 times animals grossed us out in 2021Here are some of our favorite gross-outs in science news this year.
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In a historic launch, the Webb Telescope blasts off into spaceAn international partnership of space agencies just launched JWST, the biggest, most powerful space telescope ever made, in an achievement that was decades in the making.
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Darkness caused by dino-killing asteroid snuffed out life on Earth in 9 monthsAfter an asteroid struck at the end of the Cretaceous period, debris from wildfires filled the atmosphere and blocked sunlight across Earth, causing ecosystem collapse and extinctions.
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How to watch the James Webb telescope launch into spaceThe James Webb Space Telescope, an upgrade to Hubble, is scheduled to launch on Dec. 25.
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41,000 years ago, auroras blazed near the equatorA geomagnetic event around 41,000 years ago sent the aurora wandering for centuries, as far south as the equator.
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'Humanity has touched the sun' in a pioneering achievement for space explorationNASA's Parker Solar Probe dipped into the sun's atmosphere to sample particles from the corona — a scientific first.
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Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 yearsThwaites Glacier is roughly the size of Florida, and holds enough ice to raise sea levels over two feet. New research shows that the collapse of its ice shelf may be just a few years away.
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Meat-eating dinosaurs were terrifyingly fast, footprints revealPreserved trackways from the Cretaceous period provide a rare snapshot of fast running speeds in theropod dinosaurs.
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Here's the secret to how 'immortal' hydras regrow severed headsFor the first time, scientists have created a genetic map showing how hydras regenerate their own heads.
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Jurassic crocodile relative could breathe easily while drowning its preyThe modern crocodile can breathe while most of its head is submerged because of specialized airway adaptations, which scientists can now trace to the Jurassic period.
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Black widow spiders: Facts about this infamous group of arachnidsBlack widow spiders are several species of arachnids in the genus Latrodectus that are known for the females' striking appearance and rumored tendency to eat their mates.
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More than 300 smuggled tarantulas, scorpions and giant cockroaches seized from luggage in ColombiaAuthorities at Colombia's airport in Bogotá found and confiscated hundreds of arthropods that German travelers had illegally collected and stashed in a suitcase.
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Was Stonehenge constructed by builders fueled on 'energy bars'?Historians have found tasty new evidence that the people who built Stonehenge supplemented their meat and dairy diets with nut and fruit "energy bars" made with animal fat.
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Biggest eagle to ever live plunged headfirst into dead prey to eat the organsHaast's eagle may have hunted large prey like an eagle, but its eating habits — targeting the internal organs — were more like those of a vulture.
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What is fascism?Reference Fascism is a political ideology usually characterized by authoritarianism and nationalism. However, many scholars say the concept is difficult to define.
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NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART mission just launched on a one-way trip to collide with a space rockThe DART spacecraft launched this morning on its mission to the binary asteroid Didymos, where it will collide with the space rock for science.
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Evidence of Hanukkah's Maccabee rebellion unearthed in IsraelMore than 2,000 years ago, a guerrilla army of Jewish rebels stormed and defeated a stronghold of the occupying Seleucid Empire.
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