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Ginormous worms ruled the Cambrian seas 500 million years back, fossils reveal
These creatures were a remarkable 30 centimeters long, which was enormous in a world where most org…
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North Korea appears to have tested a missile tipped with a hypersonic weapon that could evade the air defenses of US bases
The missile tested by North Korea on Sunday used a new kind of fuel making it tougher to detect.
Tom Porter
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Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and it's confusing the maps on your phone
So, while the geographical true north is still at the tip of the Prime Meridian, the magnetic no…
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Finland is consistently ranked the happiest country on earth. For Finns, it's an eye-roller.
In Finland, people trust their neighbors and leave work on time. But ask them if they are the "happ…
Beatrice Nolan
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Earth's magnetic north pole is skittering wildly across the Arctic. By 2040, our compasses 'will point eastward of true North,' an expert says.
Earth's magnetic north pole has been leading scientists on something of a wild goose chase. …
Aylin Woodward
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NASA video shows a giant churning tornado on the sun as tall as 14 Earths, hurling plasma into space
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of a solar tornado made of boiling plasma. It's th…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA confirms that the dent in Earth’s protective shield is splitting into two as it gets bigger
The bigger the anomaly gets the wider its sphere of influence. A weak magnetic field means that …
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Earth's magnetic North Pole has moved - here's what that means for our navigation systems
Recently, scientists presented two guesses as to why this accelerated migration might be happening.…
Aylin Woodward
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All the women on Earth make about half as much money as the men. That's barely changed since 1990.
Even though educated women outnumber educated men in many countries, the World Inequality Report fi…
Jason Lalljee,Madison Hoff
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Earth's magnetic north pole is moving too fast for experts to keep up. Now scientists might know why.
The researchers knew that the movement of heat from the planet's interior outward can influence the…
Aylin Woodward
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53 years ago, a vicious, unexpected attack showed Americans what kind of war they were really fighting in Vietnam
Communist forces were told to "crack the sky" and "shake the earth" during the Tet Offensive, but t…
Benjamin Brimelow
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If US claims of how the Saudi oil attack went down are true, then its failure to prevent it is a huge embarrassment
Assets to monitor attacks from Iran are considerable: a band of radars based in Kuwait, Qatar and B…
Mitch Prothero
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North Korea announces plan to 'stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles'
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets members of the high-level delegation of the Democratic Peopl…
David Choi
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The Pelicans shared a photo on Instagram celebrating 'True Teammates' that looked like a shot at Anthony Davis and his trade request
"Anthony wants to be traded to a team that allows him a chance to win consistently and compete for …
Tyler Lauletta
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Geno Smith appeared to join Kyrie Irving in embracing flat Earth conspiracies, and the internet went nuts
I worked at JPL. One of my jobs was working on code to slice up data about the oceans coming from E…
Tyler Lauletta
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Stunning photos reveal what the North Pole really looks like and why Santa would be more likely to live at the South Pole
If Santa lived at the South Pole, he'd also have people to hang out with. The US' Amundsen-Scott So…
Hilary Brueck
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17 Crazy Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually True
Not one to miss an opportunity, Lustig devised a plan to convince the city's biggest scrap-metal de…
Megan Willett
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Here's what could happen if North Korea sets off a huge nuclear explosion in the Pacific Ocean
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump called Jong Un a suicidal …
Dave Mosher
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This crazy Image reveals what one of Jupiter's moons looks like compared to Earth
The picture above is of the fourth largest moon in the solar system, Io, placed on top of North Ame…
Jessica Orwig
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9 'Facts' You Learned In School That Are No Longer True
Then in 1930, a 23-year-old newbie at the facility found it. The discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, had be…