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A native tarantula as a seasonal food
A new study documents the traditional consumption of the Indian black earth tiger…
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The Four-Color Theorem Has Haunted Mathematicians for Decades. It Just Got a Rare New Proof, but Some Still Long for a Simpler Solution
The famous problem asks whether a map can be filled in with only…
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Crew emerges from Mars habitat simulation after yearlong test
The 4 participants in NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), or…
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China Unveils Their Plan for a Crewed Moon Landing
Yesterday, on November 3rd, the deputy chief designer of China's crewed space program…
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‘Trials and Tribble-ations’ at 30: The classic ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ episode that brought Captains Kirk and Sisko face-to-face
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When dinosaurs are sold to the highest bidder, we all lose | Kristi Curry Rogers and Lindsay Zanno
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New draft rules could dilute regulations for animal testing
Draft rules, open for public comment until November 5, would let institutional ethics…
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Ben Franklin Wasn’t Serious When He Implied the Wild Turkey Would Be a ‘Respectable’ National Symbol … but He Wasn’t Wrong, Either
The birds strutted around North America for hundreds of thousands of years before…
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Did comets seed life on Earth? A new study says — probably not
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The JWST May Have Found Where Heavy Black Hole Seeds Formed
Astrophysicists think that the supermassive black holes (SMBH) we see in the modern…
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