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How Octopus Intelligence Works—a Distributed Mind Science

How Octopus Intelligence Works—a Distributed Mind

Octopuses possess 500 million neurons, two-thirds of which reside in their arms rather than their central brain. This distributed nervous system enabl...

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How NASA's SPHEREx Maps the Entire Sky in 102 Colors Science

How NASA's SPHEREx Maps the Entire Sky in 102 Colors

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope surveys the entire sky in 102 infrared wavelengths, hunting for clues about the Big Bang, mapping interstellar ice, and...

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What Is Positronium—the Atom Made of Antimatter Science

What Is Positronium—the Atom Made of Antimatter

Positronium is an exotic atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, the positron. It exists for less than a microsecond before annihilating in...

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How Multistage Rockets Work—and Why They Must Science

How Multistage Rockets Work—and Why They Must

Multistage rockets solve the fundamental physics problem that makes single-stage-to-orbit nearly impossible, shedding dead weight stage by stage to re...

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How Commercial Space Stations Work—and Why the ISS Era Is Ending Science

How Commercial Space Stations Work—and Why the ISS Era Is Ending

With the International Space Station set for retirement, NASA is betting on private companies to build its replacements. Here's how commercial space s...

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How Lab-Grown Organs Work—From Scaffold to Transplant Science

How Lab-Grown Organs Work—From Scaffold to Transplant

Scientists strip donor organs of their cells, rebuild them with a patient's own tissue, and implant them without immunosuppression. Here is how the de...

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How Planet Classification Works—and Why Pluto Lost Science

How Planet Classification Works—and Why Pluto Lost

The IAU's 2006 definition of a planet stripped Pluto of its status by adding an orbit-clearing criterion, igniting a debate between dynamicists and ge...

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How Your Sense of Smell Works—From Nose to Brain Science

How Your Sense of Smell Works—From Nose to Brain

The human olfactory system detects thousands of odors using around 400 types of receptors that create unique neural patterns, connecting directly to b...

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How the Chernobyl Sarcophagus Works—and What's Inside Science

How the Chernobyl Sarcophagus Works—and What's Inside

The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement is the largest moveable land-based structure ever built, an engineering marvel designed to seal 200 tons of radioac...

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How Scientists Size Up Giant Prehistoric Snakes Science

How Scientists Size Up Giant Prehistoric Snakes

Paleontologists reconstruct the length and mass of ancient mega-snakes like Titanoboa and Vasuki indicus from a handful of fossilized vertebrae, using...

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How NASA's Artemis Program Works—Moon and Beyond Science

How NASA's Artemis Program Works—Moon and Beyond

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon and eventually reach Mars. Here's how SLS, Orion, and commercial landers work together to mak...

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Why Neanderthals Went Extinct—and What DNA Reveals Science

Why Neanderthals Went Extinct—and What DNA Reveals

Neanderthals survived for over 300,000 years before vanishing roughly 40,000 years ago. Scientists now believe their extinction resulted from a combin...

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