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An actor, playing the role of a vaccine against Ebola, performs at a school in Abidja, Ivory Coast, last September

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Experimental Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection in Trial

An unusual trial design helped prove the vaccine safe and effective in less than a year

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We Crave Comfort Food to Feel Less Alone

This is why you can't stop eating corndogs

An artist’s vision of what the night sky would look like from a planet at the heart of an ultracompact galaxy

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These Super-Dense Galaxies Are Bursting With Stars

Life in these systems would have trouble starting, but the night skies would be spectacular to behold

Philae snapped this image of 67P over a mile from the comet's surface.

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Philae Proves There's More to Comets Than Dust and Ice

The lander found organic compounds on comet 67P

Half of Devil's Kettle Falls plunges underground — then simply disappears

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The Mystery of Minnesota's Disappearing River

Half a river is missing in the Judge C.R. Magney State Park

Nabiré had a chronic problem with uterine cysts, and the one that killed her was inoperable.

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Only Four Northern White Rhinos Are Left on Earth

One of the species' last females died this week

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Bully or Bystander? It Could Be in the Genes

New study says bullying may be nature, not nurture

Astrophysicist Dr. Brian May is recognized during a July 17, 2015 New Horizons science briefing at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. May spent a long birthday weekend with the science team, attending two morning science plenaries, a meeting with the Student Dust Counter group, and working on stereo images of Pluto with the Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team.

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Queen Guitarist Brian May is Now a New Horizons Science Collaborator

As new images were transmitted from Pluto, the rock-star-turned-astrophysicist rubbed shoulders with his heroes

Serpentine columbine may use dead bugs to lure in spiders to do its dirty work, researchers report.

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This Plant Murders Bugs and Decorates Itself With Their Dead Bodies

Talk about a roundabout defense strategy

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Go Ahead, Wise Guy: Sarcasm Makes People More Creative

It’s science, duh

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Mystery Solved: Why Puddles Don't Go On Forever

The picture of proper puddle behavior had a few missing pieces

Hawaii, three foot long egg mass, the product of a species of open ocean squid.

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This Huge, Gooey Blob Could Be a Clutch of Squid Eggs

The blob was the size of a car...and completely baffling to a group of divers

The first known photograph of Drosera magnifica.

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No One Knew This Plant Existed Until It Was Posted to Facebook

What's the emoji for "scientific discovery"?

A mother rhino breastfeeding her baby

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Why Mammals Have a Monopoly On Milk

It all started with an egg

Pluto may be home to a hazy atmosphere, nitrogen glaciers and possibly even an underground ocean.

New Research

There's Flowing Ice on Pluto

And maybe an underground ocean

Hair ice found in Skåne County, Sweden.

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Here’s How a Strange Phenomenon Called ‘Hair Ice’ Forms on Dead Trees

The white ice filaments look a lot like cotton candy

A stone etching on the grave of crewmember Lt. John Irving depicts the dire conditions that the Franklin expedition faced when they reached the Canadian Arctic.

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Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism

New bone analysis suggests crew resorted to eating flesh, then marrow

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This Fungus Eats the Butts off Cicadas

It’s totally not a big deal, though

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This Video of Lightning in Slow Motion is Strangely Entrancing

Hypnotize yourself with lightning at 2,000 frames per second

New Horizons snapped this parting shot of Pluto on July 15, 2015.

New Horizons Snaps a Final Shot of Pluto

So long, dwarf planet!

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