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Matt Champlin/Getty Images Poisoned Weapons Are Way Older Than We Thought
A new study revealed that poison arrows were around tens of thousands of years earlier than scientists previously believed.
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Paul Campbell/Getty Images 9 Ways Space Can Kill You
Here are nine very specific, very horrifying ways space can kill you that we pulled straight from NASA’s risk pages and reports.
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Chakarin Wattanamongkol/Getty Images Jupiter Will Shine Brighter Than Any Star This Weekend: Here’s How to See It
It’s bright, and it’s center stage. That’s Jupiter, and it will outshine every star in the sky as it reaches opposition this weekend.
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Jason Edwards/Getty Images Fossils Discovered in Morocco Could Reveal Humanity’s True Origins
There’s still a lot to learn about where we came from, but with discoveries like this, we are one giant step closer to completing the puzzle.
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NASA/Handout/Getty Images 9 Super Awful Things Going to Space Does to the Human Body
NASA has spent decades documenting the weird parts because the weird parts are the most interesting, but they can also be dangerous.
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All About Space/ Contributor/Getty Images Astronomers Found an Impossibly Hot Object Near the Big Bang
Astronomers found a galaxy cluster so hot and so mature that, according to existing cosmological models, it shouldn’t exist at all.
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Artem Hvozdkov/Getty Images These 2 Traits Make You More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories
A new study suggests that those wacky conspiracy theories aren’t just a social media problem, they’re a problem of mindset.
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NASA/Stringer/Getty Images Astronomers Just Found a Galaxy That Never Formed. Here’s What They Learned.
Astronomers might have found the closest thing yet to a galaxy that, like your slacker sibling, simply refused to grow up.
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Jon Cherry / Stringer / Getty Images Mosquitoes Really Do Archive Animal DNA, Just Like in ‘Jurassic Park’
“They say Jurassic Park inspired a new generation of paleontologists, but it inspired me to study mosquitoes.”
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Domus Day/Facebook Everything We Know About the Neon Orange Shark Discovered in Costa Rica
It’s just a nurse shark, but it has creepy white eyes and bright orange skin. Now, scientists think they finally know why.
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3I/ATLAS Scientists Searched 3I/ATLAS for Signs of Aliens. Did They Find Anything?
Scientists scanned 3I/ATLAS for a wide range of radio frequencies for over five hours. What they found is exactly what we expected.
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Family Lifestyle/Getty Images A Mouse Just Had Babies After Going to Space. Here’s Why That Matters More Than You Think.
For scientists studying whether life can continue beyond Earth, that birth answers a question bigger than the moment itself.
