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In 2017, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology found whole communities of assorted microbes living on the surface of single grains of sand.

Learn why it’s highly sought, out of this world and a builder of countries.
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Our beliefs often get in the way of the truth. How can we be better?

We just want to belong, and that can make truth-seeking a challenge.
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What's that pale blue dot in the center there? A single atom, visible to the naked eye: http://ed.gr/nn3o

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Keep calm and say hello to the aliens.

Yeah, we'd probably handle the news of alien life pretty well.
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In the 19th century, anatomist Richard Owen separated the family Felidae into “roarers” and “purrers.” Today, based on that distinction, some definitions consider cats “big” only if they roar — that’s lions, tigers, jaguars and leopards.

The tiger is the biggest cat, black panthers are not a species and the real reason two lions became the Man-Eaters of Tsavo.
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Wealth inequality is no recent phenomenon.

how’d we get to a world today where 1 percent of the population controls so much of the wealth?
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The equations may be arcane, but the applications are anything but.

You probably don't think about the Dirac equation on an average day, but it describes just about everything that happens to you.
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There's a wide variation in how languages deal with gender. No matter how we talk about it though, gendered language affects how we think.

Some languages don't use gendered pronouns, some assign genders to everything.
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Thank the insects for psychedelic mushrooms.

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In Russia, spacecraft land in your backyard. http://ed.gr/uczc

In the Altai region, million-dollar spacecraft sometimes end their lives as farm implements.
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There's an inverse relationship between believing your political views are superior and being informed, study says.

We all know them: those people with strong political convictions who, when you disagree, tell you it’s because you don’t know what you are talking about. But do they really know more than you do? Here, scientists tested the relationship between feeling that one’s own political beliefs are supe...
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Depression often makes itself known through the type of language those suffering from it use.

Words can help accurately predict whether someone is suffering from depression.
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Researchers create and use two new synthetic letters of DNA.

A cell with an artificial DNA base pair has successfully used its new genetic letters to create a protein.
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Meteoric metal has turned up in archaeological digs the world over. Why were ancient peoples so fascinated by it?

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Self-driving Uber and Lyft cars could actually make traffic worse.

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Even rats are well-acquainted with the concept of "quid pro quo"

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