Science & Health
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Asteroid Apophis Could One Day Hit Earth. Here’s How We Could Get to It First
The clock is officially ticking.
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12 Sea Creatures That Look Extremely Fake
Why leave Earth in search of aliens when you can just dive right into our oceans? No doubt, the seas are filled with all sorts of oddities that often defy description, from incomprehensibly shaped comb jellies through to gigantic isopods that more rightly belong in a 1960s B-picture. Case in point, these 12 bizarro sea…
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Deepwater Sightings of Rare Bigfin Squid Reveal Some Serious Weirdness
An extensive survey of deep waters off the coast of Australia has resulted in a trove of bigfin squid sightings. And by trove, we mean the detection of five individuals — these deep-sea creatures are exceptionally rare, so any new observations are quite valuable to scientists.
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Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Lakebed Beneath Greenland’s Ice
Using radar and other ice-penetrating instruments, scientists have detected a “fossil lakebed” preserved beneath the Greenland ice sheet, in what is the first discovery of its kind.