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A copy of a photograph of a solar eclipse taken by the English astronomer Arthur Eddington in 1919.

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Long-Lost Photos of Eclipses and Stars Found in an Observatory Basement

The stash of old negatives includes a 97-year-old copy of the photo that helped confirm the Theory of Relativity

A doctor and patients in Nicaragua during an outbreak of dengue and chikugunya virus earlier in 2015

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Introducing the First Dengue Fever Vaccine

Three countries have already approved the vaccine

The "Dog Star" Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.

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Night Sky Wonders to Ring in the New Year

The star Sirius is high in the sky, and comet Catalina is at its brightest

Do these satellite sea surface images look similar? Experts think so. The image of the Pacific Ocean on the left was taken recently. To the right is a sea surface image taken in December 1997.

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This Year's El Niño Looks Menacingly Familiar

The world is bracing for record rains and droughts

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea.

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Gonorrhea Is Developing Antibiotic Resistance

And public health officials are scared of what comes next

The suburban community of Porter Ranch is the unexpected site of a slow-motion environmental catastrophe.

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This Is What a Massive Methane Leak Looks Like

A leak is spewing millions of tons of the invisible gas into the skies above Los Angeles

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People's Brain Chemistry May Reveal the Hour of Their Death

The tiny biological clocks ticking away inside the body stop when life ends, leaving a timestamp of sorts

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A Giant Squid Visits a Japanese Harbor

These denizens of the deep usually lurk between 2,000 to 3,000 feet below the surface

A Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft lifts off from a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 23, 2015.

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Russia Scraps Space Agency for a State-Run Corporation

Russia's federal space agency will soon be no more

Screenshot from “The story of space debris” showing the Earth's cluttered space in 2015.

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Jettison Through Nearly 60 Years of Space Junk Accumulation

People have been leaving a mess out in Earth's orbit

The newly-named "Ninja Lanternshark."

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A New Species of Shark Gives a Hat Tip to Both Jaws and Ninjas

Some lucky kids got to name this gnarly-looking fish

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China’s Lunar Rover Discovered a New Kind of Moon Rock

The Yutu Rover has discovered a type of basalt unlike anything else ever found on the moon

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Washington State Has Released up to 3,200 Inmates Early Thanks to Computer Glitch

The software bug has been miscalculating release dates for 13 years

The back shell of NASA’s InSight spacecraft being lowered onto the lander, last July, in preparation for the mission.

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Here's Why NASA Had to Postpone a 2016 Mission to Mars

A leak in a key instrument on board the InSight lander means the team will have to wait for the next launch window in 2018

Coast Redwood trees are one of the more than 200 species threatened by extinction around the world.

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Meet the World’s Most Threatened Christmas Trees

Some conifers' survival is endangered by disease, deforestation and competition

This yellow-bellied watersnake gave birth without male contact in the last eight years.

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In Nature, Virgin Births Are Pretty Common

Fish do it, bugs do it, even some species of snakes do it

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The FDA Lifted a Lifetime Ban on Gay and Bisexual Men Giving Blood

Or did it?

This photo of two short-nosed sea snakes alerted researchers to the species' survival, even though they were thought to be extinct for 15 years.

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They’re Back: Supposedly Extinct Sea Snakes Have Been Found in Australia

Nearly 15 years later and about 1,000 miles away from the last sighting, the snakes could be making a comeback

Astronomers have discovered strange chemicals in interstellar objects like the Horsehead Nebula.

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Scientists Are Searching for Space Chemicals That Could Never Exist on Earth

Bizarre chemicals in deep space could help explain the origins of life

A long exposure captures the Falcon 9's launch and return.

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SpaceX's Rocket Stuck the Landing

During the first Falcon 9 launch in six months, the first stage booster rocket make a neat u-turn in air and a clean landing on the ground

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