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505-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish Fossils May Be the Oldest Ever Found

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Jellyfish have been floating through Earth’s oceans seemingly forever. But pinning down the exact origin of these squishy sea creatures, which are some...
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NASA’s Voyager 2 Is Out of Contact but Not Lost in Space

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Background: A long, strange trip through the solar systemVoyager 2 launched to space on Aug. 20, 1977, to take a tour of our...
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It’s Official: Stores Can No Longer Sell Most Incandescent Lights

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It’s the end of an era. In America, the incandescent light is no more (with a few exceptions).Under new energy efficiency rules that...
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Family of Henrietta Lacks Settles with Biotech Company That Used Her Cells

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The family of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without consent and used to pioneer numerous medical discoveries, reached...
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Saving Lives at the Grand Canyon, One Salty Snack at a Time

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Watching weary day hikes start the long uphill hike from Phantom Ranch, a ranger station at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Jeff...
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Move Over, Men: Women Were Hunters, Too

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The researchers also found that women were more flexible in their approaches to hunting as they aged. Which weapons they chose, the game...
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Scenes From a City That Only Hands Out Tickets for Using Fentanyl

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For the past two and a half years, Oregon has been trying an unusual experiment to stem soaring rates of addiction and overdose...
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Mauricio Diazgranados Is a Botanist in a Hurry

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A decade ago, when Dr. Diazgranados was head of Bogotá’s botanical garden, he took on the construction of a new herbarium and the...
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Is It an E-Bike, or a Motorcycle for Children?

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LeGrand Crewse, co-founder and chief executive of Super73, recently showed off the company’s latest product, a diminutive motorized bike called the K1D. Aimed...
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A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re Expecting

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It’s a question on every new parent’s exhausted mind: Why are babies born so helpless? In 1960, an American anthropologist laid out an...
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