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That Time an Astronaut Smuggled a Corned Beef Sandwich To Space

The sandwich was a joke but its crumbs proved to be too much — for politicians, not for the mission

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How Tampons Might One Day Help Detect Cancer

New research suggests tampons could screen for endometrial cancer

In Mozambique, rats, like this one shown, have been used to detect land mines. Now they're being put to work to aid the fight against tuberculosis.

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Mozambique has “Kitten-Sized” Rats Trained to Sniff Out Tuberculosis

Highly trained rodents are helping doctors better diagnose TB in a region hard hit by the deadly disease

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Want to Live Longer? Don’t Sleep So Much

New research links longer sleep duration with a shorter life

A close-range view of a landspout tornado in western Kansas, 2008.

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Why Forecasters Were Once Banned From Using the Word “Tornado”

Before meteorologists developed reliable prediction techniques, the t-word was off the table

Why is music so important to so many of us?

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Here’s How Music Really Could Soothe Your Soul

A leading scholar theorizes that music developed as an evolutionary adaptation to help us deal with the contradictory nature of life

An artist's rendition of an asteroid impact.

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Largest Asteroid Crater Ever Discovered Underground in Australia

Deep in Earth’s mantle, scientists find evidence of a colossal impact that could reveal new information about Earth’s history

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How Bad Is California’s Drought?

Hint: it’s pretty bad

Jupiter with moons Io and Europa as seen by the Voyager I probe

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Jupiter Made Our Solar System Weird

The gas giant just had to throw its mass around

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Here’s Why Your Eyes Seem to Be Wired 'Backward'

Light has to pass through nerve cells to get to the rods and cones, but that order is no mistake

An artist's rendition of Pluto's surface.

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Make Your Mark on Pluto by Helping Name Its Features

The New Horizons team is asking the public for help labeling the maps of Pluto and one of its moons

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Here’s Why the Navy Designed a New Diving Suit

New design spurred by a global helium shortage

Electoral documents being prepared for voters

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Half of All Local Council Positions in France Will Be Held by Women

Joint tickets with men and women running together will lead to councils balanced by gender

Ashima Shiraishi training at Hueco Tanks State Natural Area in Texas when she was 10 years old

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This 13-Year-Old Girl Just Finished One of the World's Hardest Rock Climbs

Ashima Shiraishi scaled Spain's 'Open Your Mind Direct' in about ten minutes after a few days working on the project

Unsurprisingly, some giant tortoises take issue with humans trying to watch them breed.

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Tortoise Defends His Lady in a Super Slow Chase

Here’s what happens when you interrupt two giant reptiles just trying to get in a bit of quality time together

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Found: A Secret Nazi Hideaway in the Heart of an Andean Jungle

Hints of a dark Nazi history found in Argentina

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Got Allergies? Air Pollution Could Be to Blame

New research suggests that ozone and nitrogen dioxide can alter allergens, creating more potent immune responses

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What’s Causing This Village’s Weird Sleeping Sickness Epidemic?

About a quarter of residents in a small town in Kazakhstan have fallen into a deep sleep for days at a time—and no one knows why

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530 Years Later, Richard III Gets a Royal Reburial

The king’s remains, which were found buried beneath a Leicester parking lot, will be reinterred this week

The great Charles Dickens may one day come to the aid of the creators of bad password.

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Trouble Remembering Passwords? Charles Dickens May Be Able Help

A programmer has devised a creative “password generation scheme” using <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>

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