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Science Is Sweet: The Eerie Tale Of Utah's Ancient Tree Clones

This isn’t some genetically-modified farming experiment gone awry—these pristine clones are all natural. And creepy.

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Rosetta Spacecraft Piggy-Backs on Comet to Solve Ancient Mysteries

Considering this mission's dangers, cortisol levels for European scientists are probably sky high. Luckily, the payoff looks promising.

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Want to See the First Spider to Walk the Earth? Science Can Do That for You

See how it all began for the subject of our arachnophobia nightmares.

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High on History: That Time When People Overpopulated Themselves into Oblivion

Researchers have puzzled out a mystery for the sudden disappearance of a Puebloan civilization: too many babies.

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High on History: The Mammoth of a Find that Subverted Every Human Origin Story

A fateful French excavation in the 1840s showed our ancestors were a lot more ancient than previously thought.

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Ancient Virus Discovered in Arctic Permafrost: Is it Curtains for Humanity?!

Ready for your daily dose of horror? No? Too bad!

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