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What Is the Smallest Thing in the Universe?
The answer to the enduring question of the smallest thing in the universe has evolved along with humanity. People...
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First Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster
NASA-funded astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. The...
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Study of Giant Viruses Shakes Up Tree of Life
A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular...
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Will We Be the First Martians?
People have dreamed of colonizing the Red Planet for more than a century. USA Today takes a look at...
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Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center
At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form...
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Weird Exoplanets Could Harbor Weird Life
New research indicates that life might be able to survive on some of the odder exoplanets discovered so far...
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Cameras to Focus on Dark Energy
A pair of detectors that measure minute distortions in images of distant galaxies will probe the riddle of cosmic...
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How Did Mars Lose its Atmosphere?
Mars wasn’t always the Red Planet. Eons ago, it is possible that Mars was as lush as Earth is...
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Dark Energy Is Real, Say Astronomers
Dark energy, a mysterious substance thought to be speeding up the expansion of the Universe is really there, according...
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The Separation Challenge-Attachment Solution Hypothesis
Big History is an example of a new systems level in the complexification of intellectual history, in which new...
