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An illustration of the Schiaparelli lander detaching from the Trace Gas Orbiter as it makes its way to the surface of Mars

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Five Things to Know About the Schiaparelli Probe Heading for a Touchdown on Mars

A lot is riding on the European Space Agency’s first Mars lander

"The Kiss"
Gustav Klimt,

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Reach Out And Touch This Version of Klimt’s “Kiss”

A 3-D printed version of the classic painting lets blind people appreciate the artwork

Lion’s Head

Historic Syria, 9th–8th centuries BCE

Ivory, carved


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New Art Exhibition Celebrates 5,000 Years of Syria's History

Syria is more than just a refugee crisis

Human blood contains red blood cells, T-cells (orange) and platelets (green)

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Scientists Are Creating an Atlas of Human Cells

The Human Cell Atlas will boldly go where science, surprisingly, hasn’t gone before

A before-and-after composite shows the lunar surface with a surprising starburst-like jet pattern.

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Craters Are Forming on the Moon Faster Than Anyone Predicted

New research digs into the changes on the pockmarked lunar surface

Hubble's eXtreme Deep Field Image

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There Are Ten Times as Many Galaxies as Previously Thought

By these latest estimates, two trillion galaxies are scattered throughout the vast universe

Protestors at Tiananmen Square in 1989

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China Will Finally Release the Last Tiananmen Square Prisoner

Miao Deshun has been in prison for the majority of his life

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Did the Greeks Help Sculpt China's Terra Cotta Warriors?

New analysis and DNA evidence suggests the 8,000 life-sized figures in emperor Qin Shi Huang's necropolis owe their inspiration to the Greeks

Bhumibol Adulyadej, also known as King Rama IX of the Chakri Dynasty

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What to Know Now That the King of Thailand Has Died

Political uncertainty and potential unrest follows the death of the beloved Bhumibol Adulyadej

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Commercial Modules Are Coming to the International Space Station. But You Can't Visit Anytime Soon

Small, slow steps for private spaceflight

Rendering of Vegavis iaai in flight

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Antarctic Fossil Suggests Ancient Birds Honked Not Sang

Recent analysis of two fossils provides the first evidence of ancient noisemakers

John Cohen photographs a young Bob Dylan playing his guitar and harmonica in New York City in 1962.

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Five Things to Know About Bob Dylan

When it comes to awards, the times are a' changin'—and now the iconic musician is a Nobel laureate

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on NASA's final space shuttle mission from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 8, 2011.

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Many of NASA's Recent Successes Actually Date Back to the Bush Administration

Some leaps, launches and grand plans for the future

This map changed how the world saw itself.

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Discover One of History’s Most Ambitious Maps

Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map was the oldest document to use "America" to describe the body of land between Africa and Asia

A malnourished Somalian baby is held by its mother while waiting for food during a 2011 drought.

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It’s 2016. Here’s How Hungry the World Is

More than 21 percent of the developing world is in “serious” need of food, according to a new report

The new dwarf planet—too small to join the ranks of our solar system's eight planets—orbits the sun roughly twice as far away as Pluto.

New Research

Say Hello to Our Solar System’s Newest Dwarf Planet

Spotting the dwarf planet could help in the search for Planet Nine

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Capsules Reveal Once Highly Classified Pieces of WWII Air Campaign

Two shipping barrels opened by the Commemorative Air Force contain one of the more intriguing technologies of the second world war

Silkworm cocoons

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Feeding Silkworms Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Makes Super-Tough Silk

A diet rich in graphene or carbon nanotubes causes the creatures to produce a fiber twice as strong as normal silk

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Obama Just Signed a Law Mandating Diaper Changing Tables in Men's Restrooms

The BABIES Act will put changing tables in men's rooms in public, federal facilities

A diver recovering a bottle of beer from the wreck of the Sydney Cove.

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Australian Researchers Brew Beer With Yeast Believed to Be from a 220-Year-Old Shipwreck

A glimpse into the boozy past

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