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Giant Panda Babies Are Born 'Undercooked' and No One Knows WhyThe leading theory just fell apart.
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Scientists Found the Deepest Land on Earth Hiding Beneath Antarctica's IceA new mapping effort revealed critical new details of Antarctica's hidden land.
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Physicists Use Bubbling Quantum Vacuum to Hopscotch Heat Across Empty SpaceHeat isn't supposed to move like this.
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Our Large, Adult Galaxy Is As Massive As 890 Billion SunsWe live in a very big house, but we can't see most of it.
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Impossibly Big Black Hole Was Probably Impossible After AllIt just wasn't that big.
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First-of-Its-Kind Neutron Star Flashes Bizarre 'Cyclotron Line' at EarthNeutron stars have never been caught behaving this way before.
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Solar Probe Finds Active, Mysterious Corona, Surprising ScientistsNASA's Parker Solar Probe has passed through the outer atmosphere of the sun, and now we get to see what it found.
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19 Galaxies Are Apparently Missing Dark Matter. No One Knows Why.Nineteen newly discovered dwarf galaxies seem to be missing their dark matter, and physicists aren't sure why.
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There Might Be Cracks in the Universe — But We Can't See Them from EarthThe cracks, if they exist, are old, remnants of a time shortly after the Big Bang.
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3 Black Holes Possibly Seen Cooking Their Galaxies AliveWithout the turbulence, the galaxies would die in just a few billion years.
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Neptune's Wobbling Moons Are Locked in a Never-Before-Seen Orbital DanceStanding on one moon, you'd see the other pass overhead twice before ducking around to pass on the other side.
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Mysterious Gravitational Wave Sparks Days-Long Hunt — But It Was Just a GlitchThis wasn't what anyone was hoping for.
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Can a Person Survive Eating Only Beef?High cholesterol, cancer and a shorter life span would all be very real risks.
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New, 'Hidden' State of Matter Coaxed into Being by Ultrafast Laser FlashesPhysicists think this might be the first of many hidden states of matter that could be uncovered using laser flashes.
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The Universe Might Be a Giant LoopIs the universe flat? Maybe not.
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Asteroid Impacts Might Wipe Out Alien Life Around Dwarf StarsWhat's the recipe for a living planet? A new paper suggests that the right number of impacts is a key ingredient.
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Mathematicians Solve 'Twin Prime Conjecture' — In an Alternate UniverseMathematicians have uncovered a big new piece of evidence for one of the most famous unproven ideas in mathematics, known as the twin prime conjecture.
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Missing-Link Atoms Turn Up in Aftermath of Neutron-Star Collision -
Giant Plasma Guns Could Be the Answer to Limitless Fusion PowerLos Alamos physicists want to combine two fusion-power techniques and finally harness the energy source that powers the sun.
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Fireball That Flew Over Japan in 2017 Was Tiny Piece of Giant Asteroid that Might One Day Threaten EarthIf you'd looked up into the sky in Kyoto, Japan, on April 28, 2017, you may have seen a preview of an event that could, far down the road, threaten the whole Earth.
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An Asteroid-Smashing Star Ground a Giant Rock to Bits and Covered Itself in the RemainsGood news for scientists. Bad news for any asteroid dwellers.
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How the Universe Stopped Making SenseWhat's going on?
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A Second Interstellar Visitor Has Arrived in Our Solar System. This Time, Astronomers Think They Know Where It Came FromWhen 'Oumuamua passed through our solar system in 2017, no one could figure out where the object came from. But astronomers think they've worked out how Comet 2I/Borisov got here.
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Why NASA's Annoyed About Elon Musk's Giant RocketSpaceX has never flown a person into space in its first spacecraft, the Crew Dragon. But already Musk is showing off his big, shiny Starship — and NASA is bristling.
