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14.6-Million-Year-Old Bee Fossil Found in New Zealand

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Art and Science Combine to Reconstruct the Faces of Our Ancestors

Mysterious Radiation Belts Detected Around Earth After Epic Solar Storm

The “Inhuman” Court Case That Helped Sink a Major Law Firm

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The World’s Oldest Anus Has an Unexplained Glow in Florida

This Man Knows Way Too Much About Area 51—and the FBI Wants to Know Why

The Long Quest for Artificial Blood

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China Creates Rocket Fuel In Orbit With Just Carbon Dioxide, Water And Electricity

Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter’s mass

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