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Taro Yamasaki / The LIFE Images Collection / … How Bowhead Whales Live for 200 Years
Size isn’t everything.
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NASA So Much Hinges on the Existence of Ancient Black Holes
If real, these massive, invisible objects could help unravel the mystery of dark matter.
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LECA So What’s the Point of Playtime?
Scientists think it’s valuable, but they’re not quite sure why.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty You’ve Been Lied to About Lying
The conventional wisdom about how to spot a liar is all wrong.
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Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty Traffic Noise Is a Silent Killer
The ruckus of cars and planes can damage not just your ears, but also your heart.
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David Maurice Smith / Oculi / Redux The Good Kind of Brain Drain
Some concussions may linger for months or even years because of damage to vessels that clear waste from the brain.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Where Will the Next Big Flood Hit?
An army of volunteers is helping forecasters predict disasters before they strike.
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Jimin Lai / AFP / Getty A Plan to Save Wildlife May Have Done More Harm Than Good
Banning the trade of vulnerable species sometimes makes them more vulnerable.
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Xia Yuan / Getty The Cerebellum Isn’t What We Thought
Scientists long believed its function was simply to coordinate movements. Now they suspect it could do much more.
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Michael Grant / Alamy The Plant Pandemics Just Keep on Coming
How the world’s trees got so sick
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An ‘Absolute Explosion’ of Stuttering Breakthroughs
Researchers are getting closer to unraveling some of the deepest mysteries about the condition.
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Tim Peake / ESA/NASA / Getty Earth Was a Very Different Place Before Mud
A great mud boom 400 million years ago changed features such as the shape of rivers and the planet’s biodiversity.
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Kaveh Kazemi / Getty ‘Contact Languages’ Don’t Get the Respect They Deserve
They’re dying out at an astonishing rate, and saving them is no easy task.
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SARAH DEL BEN / WID TOUCH / FONDATION … The Rush to Sock Away Glacier Ice Before It All Melts
A snow-covered vault in Antarctica could help preserve chunks of disappearing glaciers.
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Aimee Silla How to Teach a Frog to Love
Amphibians are dying off faster than any other vertebrate group in the world. Can hormones and IVF save them?
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NASA The Space Between Galaxies Isn’t Empty
Most of the atoms in the universe lie in its flyover country.
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Emily Osterloff / National History Museum What Fossils Alone Can’t Explain About Dinosaurs
When time is measured in 10-million-year blocks, the lines between ecosystems and animals that would never have coexisted can get blurry.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty A Leaky Memory May Be a Good Thing
“Active forgetting” could make your brain more efficient.
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Terry Fincher / Getty The Actual Skeletons in Your Closet
The laws that determine how human bodies are handled differ dramatically by state.
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