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Why does drinking water feel so good when you're thirsty?Drinking water triggers a variety of complex biochemical reactions that reward rehydration and help satiate our thirst.
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'Brain-eating' infections could become more common, scientists warnResearchers think climate change will soon cause an increase in the incidence of Naegleria fowleri infections, a "brain-eating" disease.
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Shapeshifting rusty river winds through Madagascar's 'red lands'Earth from space This 2018 astronaut photo shows the rust-colored waters of Madagascar's Betsiboka River winding through a complex series of mangrove islands. Both the river and islands have been altered in recent years by destructive human practices.
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Molecule responsible for robbing Venus of its water may finally have been identifiedA new water loss mechanism on Venus explains how the planet lost all its water, turning the planet from a potentially habitable world into the parched hellscape we know today.
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Mysterious wave ripples across 'galaxy' of icebergs in Arctic fjordEarth from space A puzzling arc was spotted in the water of a Greenland fjord littered with iceberg fragments. There are a couple of possible explanations for this bizarre phenomenon but we will likely never know what caused it, experts say.
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Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — againOn April 10, a bright red atmospheric "hole" was spotted in the night sky above Texas shortly after SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into space. It is the latest example of an increasingly common phenomenon caused by the company's dying rockets.
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East Africa's Lake Nakuru almost doubled in size in 13 years — and that's bad news for flamingosAfrica's soda lakes are rising and it's decimating the cyanobacteria flamingos have evolved to eat, putting the species at risk of drastic declines if current trends continue.
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists reveal in 1st comprehensive analysisScientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, revealing the out-of-this-world makeup of asteroid Bennu.
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Opposites attract? Not in new experiment that finds loophole in fundamental rule of physicsLike-charged objects were found to clump together while opposites repelled because of the newly discovered "electrosolvation force."
