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This 500-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Claw-Bearing Predator Uncovers the Origins of Spiders, Scorpions and Other Arthropods

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In a First, an Astronomer May Have Witnessed a Comet Stop Its Spin—Then Reverse Its Rotation

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Spectators Flocked to the Artemis 2 Launch to Witness History Being Made. One Awed Viewer Called It 'the Best Thing Ever'

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Sea Stars Can Lose an Arm and Soldier On. What If Robots Could Do the Same?

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This Painting Was Thought to Be a Workshop Copy of a Rembrandt. Now, One Scholar Argues It's the Real Deal

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How Do Snakes 'Stand' Upright Nearly Stick-Straight? New Research Points to How They Pull Off the Gravity-Defying Feat

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The Spirited Revolutionary Who Led the Fight for Independence in Corsica Also Inspired America’s Colonial Rabble-rousers

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This Massive Collection of More Than a Million Tools Tells the Striking History of Jewelry Making in America

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NASA's Artemis 2 Mission Launches, Sending Humans Toward the Moon for the First Time in More Than 50 Years

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This Secret Passageway May Have Been Part of the Underground Railroad. Now, Preservationists Say It's in Danger

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Humans Might Struggle to Make Babies in Space. Sperm Gets Disoriented in Microgravity, a New Study Suggests

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What Did Ancient Pompeians Burn as Offerings to Their Gods? New Research Reveals the Surprising Answer

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A Truck Driver Spent 20 Years Making This Astonishing Scale Model of Every Single Building in New York City

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Could Python Blood Lead to the Next Generation of Weight-Loss Drugs?

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These Snorkeling Scientists Stumbled Upon a Surprising Trove of Fossils in a Texas Water Cave

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Is This 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic the First Known Image of a Woman Fighting Wild Beasts in an Ancient Roman Arena?

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To Finance Their Lifestyle, a Young French Couple Went to Cambodia to Steal Antiquities. They Did Almost Everything Wrong

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This C-3PO Head From 'The Empire Strikes Back' Just Sold for More Than $1 Million at Auction

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Art Thieves Steal Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Worth More Than $10 Million, Fleeing the Scene in Just Three Minutes

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When Did the Earth's Crust Start to Shift? Scientists Uncover Evidence of Plate Tectonics Happening 3.48 Billion Years Ago

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