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Why You Should Take an 'Awe Walk'

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Famous Quaking Aspens Expected to Be Hit by Climate Change

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Long Naps Could Be Bad for Your Health
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Medieval Potion Shown to Kill Problematic Bacteria
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The World is Facing a Population Bust
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Here's What One Sugary Drink a Day Can Do to Women
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Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger, Just as Climate Scientists Predicted
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How Farms Can Share Wild Bees
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Desperate Farmers Are Selling Pigs on Craigslist
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Extreme 'Space Butterfly' Captured by ESO Telescope
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This Is the First Direct Image Taken of Two Planets Orbiting Their Young Star
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Could Our Sun Release a Massively Destructive Superflare?
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More Plants Are Going Extinct Than We Previously Thought
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Earth is Made of Cubes
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The world's coral reefs may have something new to worry about.
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Scientists Have Created the World's First Liquid Metal Lattice
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Dirt From This Old Irish Church Really Does Have Healing Properties
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Cicadapocalypse: What You Need to Know
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The Best Way to Solve a Problem Really May Be to Sleep on It
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Microsoft Sinks a Datacenter off Scotland
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How Are Invasive Plants so Good at What They Do?
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The Sun Is Going Through a Quiet Phase
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Oceans Could Return to a Picture of Health in Just One Generation
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This New Blood Test Accurately Predicts 50 Types of Cancer
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Your Life Story May Be Written in Your Teeth
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Why S. California's Tides Are Glowing Blue
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A Rare Star Escapes the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Galaxy
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We May Know How the Bizarre, Cigar-Shaped Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua Was Formed
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Scientists Have Picked Up a Radio Signal From the Other Side of the Universe
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We're Close to Solving the Mystery of Those Flashing Lights on the Moon
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Everything You Need to Know About Face Masks
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Melting Ice Reveals Lost Viking Highway's Secrets
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This Mutant Enzyme Recycles Plastic in Hours
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How to Become a Backyard Naturalist Right Now
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What You Need to Know About Chlorpyrifos
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The 10 Worst States for the Flu
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Why Approaching Comet ATLAS Is So Bright (And How You Can See It)
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Humans Built These Mystery Circles From Mammoth Bones 20,000 Years Ago
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What's Eating Betelgeuse?
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This World Map Is Weird — And Weirdly Accurate
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Japan's Historic Asteroid Space Probe Is Heading Back to Earth
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Here's What the Real Patch Adams Has Been Up To
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NASA's InSight Lander Confirms 'Marsquakes' Are Real
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Even 400,000 Years Ago, the Loss of Animal Species Took a Toll on Humans
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This Scientific Breakthrough Could Jumpstart the Revival of the Great American Barrier Reef
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This Creature Eats, Learns and Heals Itself — All Without a Brain
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Greenhouse Gases Could Fall to Levels Not Seen Since WWII
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Rural Community That Lost Two Coal Mines Is Now Teaching Kids to Install Solar Panels
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If You Get Too Much Sleep, You're Not Doing Your Body Any Favors Either
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What Really Happens When Food 'Goes Down the Wrong Pipe'?
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These Birds Prove You Don't Need a Big Brain for a Complex Social Life
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The Real Reason Why Eggs Come in So Many Shapes and Sizes May Be Childishly Simple
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There's a Part of the Brain That Always Says Yes to One More
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Mini-Brains Grown in a Lab Are Pushing Ethical Boundaries
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Humpback Whales Share Songs on Their Travels
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What's the Difference Between Nitrates and Nitrites?
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E-Waste Harms Human Health; New Research Details How
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Scientists Taught Rats How to Play Hide-And-Seek and They Really Got Into It
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Physicists May Have Discovered a Fifth Force of Nature
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Starman's Tesla Completes Orbit Around the Sun
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Two-Thirds of Sunscreens Offer Inferior Protection, Says EWG
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Scientists Detect a Massive Thermonuclear Explosion From Outer Space
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Jimmy Carter's Solar Farm Now Powers More Than Half of His Hometown
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7 Odd Facts About Pi
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Parallel Worlds Exist and Interact With Our World, Say Physicists
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An Alarming Amount of Toxic Mercury Can Now Be Found in Coastal Fog
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She May Sidestep the Einstein References, but This Theoretical Physicist Is One to Watch
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Horses Express Emotion Through Sound
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It's Raining Plastic in the Rockies
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A Black Hole Met a Neutron Star and Swallowed It 'Pac-Man' Style
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NASA's All-Female Spacewalk Is Happening
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Can We Make Steel Without CO2 Emissions Using Renewable Hydrogen?
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Denmark's Ski Slope (On Top of a Power Plant) Welcomes First Guests
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What Is Déjà Rêvé?
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Poor Toilet Hygiene Spreads More E.coli Than Raw Meat
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Scientists Thrilled to Find Water Vapor in Exoplanet's Atmosphere
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Data Storage Could Soon Be 8 Percent of the World's Energy Use
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Actor Luke Perry Was Buried in This Biodegradable Mushroom Suit
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Four Ways That Falling Back From Daylight Saving Time Can Kill You
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Scientists Have Found a 'Forbidden Planet' That Has No Business Being Where It Is
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Murray Energy Goes Bankrupt
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Blue Light Rots the Brains of Fruit Flies
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PTSD Plummets for Veterans Who Try Horseback Riding
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Black Holes Are 'Portals to Other Universes,' According to New Quantum Results
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A Meteorite Smashed Into the Blood Moon During the Eclipse, and It Was Caught on Film
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A 'Slow Moving Disaster' Has Bubbled Up From the San Andreas Fault
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Don't Eat the 'Sexy Pavement Lichen,' Botanists Urge
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With Alcarelle, Scientist Aims to Create Booze That Keeps the Buzz but None of the Baggage
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A New Study Identifies the World's Biggest Liars
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Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole Has Become Suddenly Ravenous
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The Very Surprising Way Common Insomnia Drugs Can Be Fatal
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A New Material Made From Spider Silk and Trees Could Replace Plastic
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Pesticides Impair the Brain Development of Baby Bees
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Astronomy Student Discovers 17 Alien Worlds
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Astronomers Just Detected the Largest Explosion in Our Universe Since the Big Bang
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The Great Sunscreen Fallacy: Lack of Sun Exposure Might Be Killing Us
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Astronomers Discover Black Hole That Wobbles, Puffs and Pulls on Spacetime
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Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactor