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A Rhode Island Man Grew the First Pumpkin to Surpass 3,000 Pounds. The Gargantuan Gourd Is the Largest Fruit Ever

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NASA Science

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What would you name this litter-picking space mission?

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Can cuttlefish hypnotize their prey?

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These Cookies Started As Plastic Bottles

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Seven amazing mushrooms to spot in the wild this autumn and why you shouldn't trust AI

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Ta Kon Citadel in Vinh Son, Vietnam

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NASA Science

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Pumpkin to talk about! Bagheera the giant squash breaks world record

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NASA Science

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Wētāpunga: One of the world's heaviest insects makes big recovery

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Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of our solar system

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Jonathan the tortoise lived to 194 years old — now scientists think they know why

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Giraffes May Be Better At Math Than You Might Think

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NASA Science

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Some dinosaurs may have munched on seaweed, scientists say

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Beak quiet! Are these the loudest birds in the world?

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Rare two-headed turtle hatchling discovered on Cape Cod

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Slimy suspects blamed for broken traffic lights

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A Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through the Flooded Streets of New Jersey During the Nor'easter

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This Massive, Deep-Sea Roly Poly Can Go Years Without Food Thanks to a Huge Stomach and a Stolen Gene, Study Suggests

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A giant cosmic 'fart' is making a wobbling zombie star repeatedly flash us, 'groundbreaking' observations reveal

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Wildcats to be reintroduced to more areas of Scotland

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Two New Stick Insect Species Have Been Discovered in Australia—and Another One Was Hiding in Plain Sight

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Wildlife good news: Five animals discovered in 2026

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Injured Pelican Knocks On NOAA Lab Door For Help

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Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun

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Did Venus 'swallow' its own moon?

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The Moon Just Got a Massive New Crater That's Wider Than Two End-to-End Football Fields. It's a 'Once-in-a-Lifetime Observation'

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Orcas Keep Targeting Boats Off Europe

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Where Your Elements Came From

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Could dino poo unlock answers to ancient bird mystery?

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Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the sun?

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Could poo be used to make concrete in the future?

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Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern Pacific

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Worm’s radical transformation shows metamorphosis can change the functions of cells

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Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole

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Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog

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Meet Prince William the 12ft crocodile!

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Whale fossil discovered by 10-year-old boy in Northern Ireland

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Scientists Recreated the Long-Lost Chirps of Jurassic Insects. Listen to the Simulated Soundscape of 165 Million Years Ago

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Superstar parrot population hits 75 year high

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Buried underwear shows land use is key to soil health

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JWST Images The Lion's Head Nebula

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Earth's Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses

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Shrew knew! Shrew snouts found to grow bigger in winter

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Does tapping on a soda can really stop it from exploding?

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Narwhals Sport Iconic Straight, Spiraled Tusks. Scientists Just Uncovered Some of the Eye-Catching Feature's Structural Secrets

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Do Monkeys Keep Pets? Study Finds Widespread Primate Interactions With Other Animal Species, From Mice to Deer

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TikTok video leads to discovery of rare underground eel in India

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Velella velella: Hundreds of incredible blue sea creatures wash up on beach

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Meet Bumpy the rescued baby hippo's new best friend Wangalla

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Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland

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Young wild octopuses may form a 'fight club' and slap territorial fish if they get too close

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Perseids Over a little Planet

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New mountain dragon lizard from Thailand named after Syrax from House of the Dragon

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Moth wings have a sense of smell

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Sperm whales blow bubbles to help them sleep scientists say

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Baby puffin spotted on Dorset coast for first time in 30 years

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Insect submariners survive the depths without imploding

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RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant

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New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels

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Naked Mole-Rat Queens Emit a Special Scent to Stop Their Rivals From Reproducing, a New Study Suggests

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Turtle Rock on Mars

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'We were genuinely surprised': 'Superworms' can clean extremely delicate skeletons lickety-split, and that's a game changer for museums

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Cells from your mother likely infiltrated your brain in the womb, and they could survive for decades, study reveals

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This Meteorite Crashed Into a New Jersey Home in 2024. Now, Scientists Say It Contains Some of the Building Blocks of Life

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Rex, the Beach Blvd Dinosaur in Jacksonville, Florida

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Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert

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Sugar in interstellar space

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New dinosaur species with a super long neck has been discovered in Thailand

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NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS, thanks to an upgrade to a mini-fridge-sized quantum lab

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Western Moon, Eastern Sea

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Space: Why does Nasa wants to light a fire on the Moon?

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Strange Spheres Washed Ashore on an Australian Beach. Authorities Say They're Probably 'Space Balls'—Empty Fuel Vessels From a Rocket

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What are the mysterious 'space balls' found washed up on an Australian beach?

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Fangs for the memories! 518-million-year-old fossil helps explain spider's bite

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Saturn's Iapetus: Painted Moon

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Orca sightings on the up off the coast of Northumberland

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Swimming crab trapped in plastic bottle survived two months on the ocean

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Sperm whales across Mediterranean Sea have different 'accents'

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These Tiny Fish Can Climb Steep Rock Walls

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NASA Mars rover finds record-breaking trove of organic molecules buried in Bright Angel rock formation

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60 million stars: Euclid space telescope snaps the largest-ever close-up photo of the Milky Way's crowded heart

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Never-before-seen shark that 'walks' on land discovered off Papua New Guinea

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Western Reef Heron: Rare African bird seen in Wales in UK first

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Father's Day 2026: Nature's best dads according to WWF

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How do Venus flytraps snap shut catching prey in seconds?

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Scientists just found something weird inside moss

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Scientists Discover a New Species of 'Walking' Shark in Papua New Guinea. They Suspect It's at Risk of Going Extinct

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Longmore 8: The Hamster Wheel Nebula

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Venus Flytraps Snap Their Traps Shut in Less Than a Second. Scientists Say They've Discovered How the Predatory Plants Are So Fast

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Is your dog left or right-pawed? Scientists have a new way of finding out!

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Mini bird-munching dinosaur discovered in China

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Has all the water on Earth been peed before?

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Ancient squirrel poop from Arctic permafrost contains DNA from mammoths, bison, horses and big cats

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Could sloths help astronauts on long space trips?

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Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs also created life-supporting environment, study suggests

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Octopus bloom spreads along UK coast to Scotland and Wales

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Comet R3 PanSTARRS Through Time