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Guns Often Stored Unsafely in U.S. Homes, C.D.C. Survey Suggests

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Many firearm owners in the United States do not securely store their guns, even when the weapon is kept loaded and there are...
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Wreckage of Shackleton’s Last Ship Is Found Off Coast of Canada

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Endurance, the ship that carried Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated attempt to cross Antarctica in 1915, spawned one of the greatest survival stories...
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Mars Got Cooked by a Recent Solar Storm

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The sun fired off a volley of radiation-riddled outbursts in May. When they slammed into Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was treated to...
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Cada elefante tiene nombre propio, sugiere un estudio

Barbara Chase -
¿Qué hay en un nombre? Es algo más que un sonido que hacen las personas para llamar la atención de cada una, es...
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Akira Endo, Scholar of Statins That Reduce Heart Disease, Dies at 90

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Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped to lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower a type of...
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Ancient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected for Sacrifice

Barbara Chase -
In the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind Chichén Itzá, the ancient Maya city in Mexico, ran into a problem:...
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Three Days in Space Was Enough to Change 4 Astronauts’ Bodies and Minds

Barbara Chase -
Space changes you, even during short trips off the planet.Four people who spent three days off Earth in September 2021 experienced physical and...
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A Big Whack That Made the Moon May Have Also Created Continents That Move

Barbara Chase -
Some 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had a meetup with Theia, another planetary object the size of Mars. When the...
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Morrie Markoff, Listed as Oldest Man in the U.S., Dies at 110

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Morrie Markoff, a supercentenarian blogger and scrap-metal sculptor who was believed to be the oldest man in the United States and whose brain...
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Was This Sea Creature Our Ancestor? Scientists Turn a Famous Fossil on its Head.

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Over the past 500 million years, vertebrates have evolved into a staggering variety of forms, from hummingbirds to elephants, bullfrogs to hammerhead sharks,...
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