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Purple Earth Hypothesis: Our Planet Was Not Blue And Green Over 2.4 Billion Years AgoArtist's impression of Earth in the early Archean with a purplish ocean.

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"Carter Catastrophe": The Math Equation That Predicts The End Of HumanityApocalyptic red sky.

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The Oldest Stalagmite Ever Dated Was Found In Oklahoma Rocks, Dating Back 289 Million Yearsa cave lit up shows stalagmites growing up from the floor and stalactites dropping down from the ceiling

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The Oldest Stalagmite Ever Dated Was Found In Oklahoma Rocks, Dating Back 289 Million Yearsa cave lit up shows stalagmites growing up from the floor and stalactites dropping down from the ceiling
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The Oldest Stalagmite Ever Dated Was Found In Oklahoma Rocks, Dating Back 289 Million Years

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Why Is There No Nobel Prize For Mathematics?Alfred Nobel's image on gold coin on physics book and reading glasses in background. Nobel Prize award.

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Why Is There No Nobel Prize For Mathematics?Alfred Nobel's image on gold coin on physics book and reading glasses in background. Nobel Prize award.
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Why Is There No Nobel Prize For Mathematics?

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These Are The Only Animals Known To Incubate Eggs In Their Stomachs And Give “Birth” Out Their Mouthsa gastric brooding frog specimen preserved, it's in a museum

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These Are The Only Animals Known To Incubate Eggs In Their Stomachs And Give “Birth” Out Their Mouthsa gastric brooding frog specimen preserved, it's in a museum
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Meet The “Four-Eyed” Hirola, The World’s Most Endangered Antelope With Fewer Than 500 Leftlarge antelope known as hirola are grazing in grassland

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Meet The “Four-Eyed” Hirola, The World’s Most Endangered Antelope With Fewer Than 500 Leftlarge antelope known as hirola are grazing in grassland
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Skynet-1A: Military Spacecraft Launched 56 Years Ago Has Been Moved By Persons UnknownSkynet-1A was launched in 1969.

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There's A Very Good Reason Why October 1582 On Your Phone Is Missing 10 DaysMissing days on the October calendar for the year 1582

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The Bizarre 1997 Experiment That Made A Frog LevitateA live frog levitates.

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The Bizarre 1997 Experiment That Made A Frog LevitateA live frog levitates.
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The Bizarre 1997 Experiment That Made A Frog Levitate

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Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be 10 Billion Years Old, This Rare Spider Is Half-Female, Half-Male Split Down The Middle, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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Why Can’t We Reach Absolute Zero?Abstract blue sparkles on black background.

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Why Can’t We Reach Absolute Zero?

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Why Are The Continents All Bunched Up On One Side Of The Planet?a view of the Earth from space focused on the pacific. You can see a bit of north america and australia, and new zealand but no other land.

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Why Are The Continents All Bunched Up On One Side Of The Planet?a view of the Earth from space focused on the pacific. You can see a bit of north america and australia, and new zealand but no other land.
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Why Are The Continents All Bunched Up On One Side Of The Planet?

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The World’s Oldest Known Snake In Captivity Became A Mom At 62 – No Dad Requiredthe oldest snake in a zoo on record was a ball python, this is a ball python in leaves

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The World’s Oldest Known Snake In Captivity Became A Mom At 62 – No Dad Requiredthe oldest snake in a zoo on record was a ball python, this is a ball python in leaves
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The World’s Oldest Known Snake In Captivity Became A Mom At 62 – No Dad Required

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A Two-Headed Fossil, 50/50 Spider, And World-First Butt DragAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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North America’s Largest Ever Land Animal Was A 21-Meter-Long TitanA life-size model of Alamosaurus at the State Fair of Texas.

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North America’s Largest Ever Land Animal Was A 21-Meter-Long TitanA life-size model of Alamosaurus at the State Fair of Texas.
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