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NASA’s Moon Rocket Heads Back to the Launchpad

NASA’s big moon rocket is rolling out to the launching pad for the third time — and it actually is…

Death Valley’s Invasive Donkeys Have Become Cat Food

Early on a June morning in Death Valley National Park, a wild donkey brought her foal to one of the…

Shark or Orca: Which Should You Fear More?

In the wild, is a human more likely to survive an encounter with an orca or a great white shark?…

When It Comes to Lightning, Don’t Pass the Salt

One of nature’s most intense spectacles can be tamed with humble sea salt, the same stuff that graces some dinner…

Astronomers May Have Found the Galaxy’s Youngest Planet

Over the last 30 years, astronomers have found more than 5,000 exoplanets, an eclectic menagerie of worlds far from our…

Do Spiders Dream of Eight-Legged Sheep?

By day, jumping spiders hunt their prey, stalking and pouncing like cats. When the lights go down, these pea-sized predators…

‘What a Horrible Place This Would Have Been’

This spring, a team of archaeologists and volunteers began painstakingly digging into the history of Fort Mercer, a Revolutionary War…

Dolphin Strangers Met in the Bahamas. Things Went Swimmingly.

In 2013, a group of 52 Atlantic spotted dolphins, driven to migrate by unknown forces, left their home on the…

The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos

In June, 100 fruit fly scientists gathered on the Greek island of Crete for their biennial meeting. Among them was…

A Large Object Landed on His Sheep Farm. It Came From Space.

Mick Miners was herding sheep on a four-wheeler last week when he stumbled upon a pointy black object that looked…

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