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In 2007, a Russian capsule exposed tardigrades to open space for 10 days. Most came back alive. Inside the biology — and the 2024-2025 discoveries — that explain how an animal smaller than a comma survives what would kill almost everything else.
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Meet Polypedilum vanderplanki, the African midge whose larvae can dry to a husk, survive outer space and liquid helium, and walk back into life when it rains.
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In 1989, lab results showed ethylene glycol — antifreeze — in a baby's blood. His mother was convicted of poisoning him and sent to prison. Then her second son was born in jail and showed the exact same symptoms. What happened next exposed one of the most chilling failures in forensic science history.
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Your cat watching you sleep may not be idle. Ethologists who study domestic cats find many display caretaking behaviors toward their humans that echo how cats tend their own young, from staying close during illness to guarding doorways. So do cats protect their owners, and what does that slow blink really mean? The answer reframes the whole relationship.
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From a Maya megalopolis hidden beside a Mexican highway to 2,500-year-old Amazon cities mapped by laser, the age of finding lost cities of the ancient world is far from over — it is accelerating.
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Venice doesn't sit on solid ground — it sits on millions of medieval wooden trunks hammered into soft lagoon mud over 1,600 years ago. They should have rotted centuries ago. Instead, something strange happened. The wood turned to stone. And that petrified forest is the only reason one of the world's most iconic cities still exists.
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In 2006, a Coca-Cola executive secretary gathered confidential documents and a physical product sample, then reached out to Pepsi with an offer to sell. Pepsi's response was not what she expected — they called the FBI. What unfolded was a federal sting operation that exposed the most dangerous vulnerability any company faces: the trusted insider.
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The pangolin is the only mammal on Earth wrapped in scales — and almost nothing about it is what it looks like. A research-led guide to eight species, strange anatomy, and the 2025 findings rewriting conservation.
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Velvet worms fire glue at five meters per second and look like aliens. But are velvet worms dangerous to humans? An honest, evidence-based answer.
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In 2026, Rosé stepped into the spotlight at the Grammy Awards and made history — not as a guest, not in a medley, but as the artist who opened the entire ceremony. It was a moment decades in the making, and it raises urgent questions about which voices the world's biggest stages are still refusing to make room for.
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For three years, a university student experienced every single moment as if he'd already lived it. Not occasionally — constantly. His brain scans came back completely normal. No seizures. No lesions. Nothing. What doctors discovered instead quietly rewrote what we thought we knew about memory, anxiety, and the stories our minds tell us without permission.
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Only one animal can survive the open vacuum of space — the tardigrade. Here is how it does it, and what its biology might mean for human missions to Mars.
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