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Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in PatagoniaEarth from space A 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual point where two contrastingly colored Patagonian lakes meet. The duo was originally a single body of water but was split by a narrow land bridge.
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Ancestral commemorative head: A 500-year-old brass bust depicting an African kingAstonishing Artifacts A striking depiction of an African king wearing coral necklaces and braids is one of the thousands of Benin Bronzes that the British looted from Nigeria in 1897.
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Fall stargazing 2026: The best skywatching sights in autumn (and how to see them)As longer nights draw in over the fall, we see the return of some stargazing favorites, including the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pleiades star cluster and the first supermoon of the season.
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Haunting Hubble 'bubble' image captures cosmic cycle of destruction and creationSpace Photo of the Week A spectacular new Hubble Space Telescope image reveals almost 30,000 newborn stars around an enormous cavity carved into a stellar nursery in a neighboring galaxy.
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Why do cats lick each other?Life's Little Mysteries Cats lick each other for multiple reasons, and some are more mysterious than others.
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Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the sun?Despite being farther from the sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, and the reason has little to do with proximity to a star.
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Infectious diseases will seed new ground as the planet warms — here's where they'll spreadScience Spotlight Climate change will increase our exposure to myriad infections, from tick-borne diseases to drug-resistant bacterial infections.
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Fisher's colon punctured by eel that snuck in through his rectumDiagnostic Dilemma A man's intestines were perforated in an "exceedingly rare" medical case involving a live eel.
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How the grassroots climate movement took off in the USBook excerpt In this excerpt from "The Carbon Wave," author Leah Stokes explores the lead-up to that moment and the wave of environmental action that followed.
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