Rock from Mars heads home after 600,000 year odyssey across space

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On this day in 1959 Lt. Col. William Rankin survived forty minutes in the Death Zone

The real science behind SETI’s hunt for intelligent aliens

The Surgeons Who Said No to Gloves

The Constant Risk of a Consolidated Internet

Family of Oddball Meteorites Stumped Researchers for Decades

NASA ASTHROS: Stratospheric Balloon the Size of a Football Stadium Will Carry a Cutting-Edge Telescope

Finding Gene Cernan’s Missing Moon Camera

Before Vaccines, Variolation Was Seriously Trendy

Cosmonaut builds engineered cartilage aboard the International Space Station

“The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World

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An abandoned British island reclaimed by nature

Disinformation campaigns are murky blends of truth, lies and sincere beliefs

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The Living Ghost Dogs That Haunt the Amazon

How to Outrun a Dinosaur

Mould from Chernobyl nuclear reactor tested as radiation shield on ISS

Mysterious deep “blue hole” off Florida’s coast sparks search for signs of life

Behold! Saturn has no summertime blues in this amazing Hubble telescope photo

NASA added 6 HD video cameras to its next Mars rover so we can all watch the first footage of a spacecraft landing on another planet

On this day in 1915 the SS Eastland capsized, resulting in one of the deadliest accidents of the 20th century

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Proteus: Design for a ‘space station’ in the ocean unveiled

This Is How They Wiped Themselves in Ancient Rome

The US says Russia just tested an “anti-satellite weapon” in orbit

New Study Shows Which Groups Hoarded Toilet Paper

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El Topo: The weirdest western ever made

Cracking the Case of South India’s Missing Vegetables

No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public

Pompeii’s most recent finds reveal new clues to city’s destruction

Some ‘Inactive’ Drug Ingredients May Be Anything But, Study Finds

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3 Great Mysteries About Life on Mars

Lynx take epic, 2,000-mile treks—but why is a mystery

How the Lynching of Timothy Coggins Was Finally Solved After 34 Years

An Entire Police Station Has Been Arrested for Dealing Drugs and Torturing Suspects

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How to Survive Ransomware Attack Without Paying Ransom

How bats have outsmarted viruses—including coronaviruses—for 65 million years

How mosquitoes got their taste for human blood and what it means for the future

Study: Magicians’ priming techniques are effective at influencing choice

The rush to claim an undersea mountain range

Nazi concentration camp guard convicted over 5,232 murders

Measuring how long quantum tunneling takes

How did Earth crack? New study may explain origins of plate tectonics on our planet.

How drugs today can cure a crushing love

An Unorthodox Tsunami Warning Has Put This Alaska City on Edge

On this day in 1983, a 767 passenger liner ran out of fuel while cruising at 41,000 feet

Roman amphoras discovered in frozen seafood shop in Spain

Video: Teenage footballer struck by lightning in Russia [1:24]

What’s Going on Inside the Fearsome Thunderstorms of Córdoba Province?

‘A stain on national life’: why are we locking up so many children?

Searching high and low for the origins of life

Why Japan is emerging as NASA’s most important space partner