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Rubberball/Mike Kemp/Getty Images The Alpine Divorce Is the Cruelest Breakup Trend Yet
On paper, it sounds almost too absurd to be real. In practice, it’s cruel, cowardly, and in some cases could be extremely dangerous.
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Asteroid Ryugu Asteroid Ryugu Is Carrying All 5 DNA Building Blocks of Life. Could There Be Another Earth in the Universe?
All five of the essential building blocks of DNA and RNA, known as nucleobases, exist on the asteroid Ryugu.
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Francesco Carta Fotografo/Getty Images Meditating Regularly Does Something Strange to the Structure of Your Brain
Meditation can calm your brain, while making it physically bigger, chunkier, meatier—those are good things, by the way.
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DEA Picture Library/Contributor/Getty Images What Archaeologists Found Written on Those 43,000 Egyptian Notes and Receipts
Archaeologists have uncovered more than 43,000 ostraca, aka pottery shards and limestone flakes used for writing, at the Athribis site in Upper Egypt.
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Northwestern/YouTube Scientists Taught an AI to ‘Evolve’ Robots, Then Built the Weirdest Ones in Real Life
The results are appropriately freaky and weird.
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DrPixel/Getty Images Is This Newly Discovered Alien Planet the Stinkiest Ever Found?
A team led by astronomers from the University of Oxford has identified a planet that, in theory, smells entirely of rotten eggs.
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Shorrocks/Getty Images Many Millennials Are ‘Telesexual’ Now. What Does That Mean?
Long-distance love used to be something you tolerated, not something you picked.
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