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A distant star called Gaia20ehk started flickering wildly in 2016. Years later, astronomers realized they were watching two planets annihilate each other in real time. And the wreckage looks a lot like how our own Moon was born.
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Culture
In a medieval town in Nepal, a man drags a chariot through the streets with a 10-inch needle through his tongue. It is not a stunt. It is how they have welcomed the New Year for over 110 years.
Culture
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Health
A massive hidden DNA element called Inocles may be living in your mouth right now, and scientists only discovered it recently.
Health
A 17-year-old in Delhi lived with a parasitic twin attached to his body, until surgeons pulled off a rare operation that sounds almost impossible.
Health
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In a medieval town in Nepal, a man drags a chariot through the streets with a 10-inch needle through his tongue. It is not a stunt. It is how they have welcomed the New Year for over 110 years.
Space
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Science
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A distant star called Gaia20ehk started flickering wildly in 2016. Years later, astronomers realized they were watching two planets annihilate each other in real time. And the wreckage looks a lot like how our own Moon was born.
The grandfather paradox was the ultimate proof that time travel is impossible. Then a physicist looked at entropy and quantum mechanics and said, actually, no. You can kill your grandfather. The universe just will not let it stick.
In a medieval town in Nepal, a man drags a chariot through the streets with a 10-inch needle through his tongue. It is not a stunt. It is how they have welcomed the New Year for over 110 years.
Argentina's therian trend turned Buenos Aires parks into fox, dog, cat, and seal territory, and it says a lot about how identity works online now.
A massive hidden DNA element called Inocles may be living in your mouth right now, and scientists only discovered it recently.
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A 17-year-old in Delhi lived with a parasitic twin attached to his body, until surgeons pulled off a rare operation that sounds almost impossible.
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Scientists finally discovered how queuosine, a hidden nutrient made by your gut bacteria, protects your brain and fights cancer.
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Meet the tardigrade: a microscopic creature that survives 1,000x lethal radiation doses by cranking its DNA repair genes to maximum overdrive. Scientists just discovered how these weird little "water bears" do it.
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