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How century-old arbitration laws are failing consumers in the digital age
Companies like Disney and Uber include arbitration clauses in their Terms of Use, meaning consumers…
Lauren Edmonds
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A giant hole in Siberia is visible from space and growing rapidly. It might reveal hints about our planet's future.
The Batagay megaslump first appeared in satellite images as a sliver. Now it's a chasm emitting tho…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The mystery of how the moon formed is still puzzling scientists. The secret could lie deep within our planet.
Scientists have several theories for how the moon first formed. The leading hypothesis involves a m…
Marianne Guenot
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The most hated workplace software on the planet
It creates mountains of busywork for everyone. So why do more than half of the companies in the For…
Matt Alston
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Planet of the Apes IRL, soon? Scientists say chimpanzees can speak like humans — they just need the right care
New research has suggested that chimpanzees could potentially learn to speak human words if given t…
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A NASA probe flew straight through an explosion from the sun, and found a key clue to how solar storms form
Insight into coronal mass ejections provided by a NASA probe could help better predict solar explos…
Marianne Guenot
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Dark oxygen: How the discovery of new oxygen deep underwater has reignited the search for alien life
Scientists have discovered 'dark oxygen' that is produced deep underwater, potentially reshaping ou…
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Is there really another planet hiding deep inside our Earth?
Scientists theorise that approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal collision, termed the "gia…
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Venus has Earth-like plate tectonics, indicating possibility of hosting life once
Venus, known as a scorching wasteland of a planet, may have once had tectonic plate movements simil…
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The Earth did not get its water from asteroids — it may have had it all along
The prevailing theory on how the Earth got its water is that the planet was born dry and water was …
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Mercury's shrinking history revealed through surface craters: insights from the planet's shriveling past
While missions to explore the moon's surface are numerous, the same cannot be said for Mercury. How…
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If you thought the planet Neptune was a deep blue color, turns out you're wrong
Neptune has long been pictured as a deep, rich blue. Researchers reprocessed NASA images to show it…
Mia Jankowicz
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Five planets will stage a rare spectacular event in the night sky on March 28
Star gazers worldwide have marked March 28 on their calendars for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spect…
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I took my teens on a whale-watching cruise. They spent less time on their phones and left with a newfound appreciation for the planet.
On a whale-watching expedition cruise, my teens gained a better appreciation for our planet. They a…
Terri Peters
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Mesmerizing new NASA image shows the lava on one of Jupiter's moons that helps form the massive planet's auroras
NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped an infrared picture of Jupiter's moon Io, which is home to hundreds …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Chunks of an alien world could be hidden deep within our planet, say scientists
A supercomputer simulation has provided new evidence that continent-sized chunks of Theia, which he…
Marianne Guenot
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In a fiery swirl of orange gas, a new planet is born — witnessed by astronomers for the very first time
The pictures captured by the SPHERE instrument on the VLT are the deepest images of the AB Aur…
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The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars
A solar eruption left a void around Mars last year, causing the red planet's atmosphere to balloon …
Erin Snodgrass,Morgan McFall-…
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Giant 'holes' dozens of times the size of our planet are appearing on the sun. Here's how they could affect Earth.
Two huge coronal holes have appeared on the sun this month, spewing 1.8 million mph solar winds tow…
Marianne Guenot
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More companies are turning to green bonds to finance their projects. Here's how they work.
Green bonds are a popular way to fund sustainability solutions. Banks like BNP Paribas and ING help…