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  Jupiter's moon Europa is getting salty

  SYFY WIRE - Phil Plait

  Well, this is very cool news: Astronomers have pretty much confirmed the presence of sodium chloride — table salt — on the surface of Jupiter’s moon …

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  Vampire squid are chill, but their ancestors may have been vicious killers

  SYFY WIRE - Cassidy Ward

  When we think of vampires we often think of Dracula, Anne Rice’s famous novels, or maybe even tiny blood-sucking bats. We probably aren’t thinking of …

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  NASA mission spots Chinese rocket impact craters on the Moon

  SYFY WIRE - Phil Plait

  On March 4, 2022, an upper-stage rocket booster slammed into the Moon. We know this much for sure. But as soon as you dig into this story, it gets …

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  Microscopic face mites are on an evolutionary course to merge with us

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  Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 thriller Parasite earned widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Picture. It tells the story of the Kim family, who …

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  Ancient humans at Cradle of Humankind are a million years older than we thought

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  Long ago in The Land Before Time (now streaming on Peacock!), when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Little Foot and his friends set out on a grand …

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  Your nose knows similarly scented people and wants you to be friends

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  In the classic Christmas story Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the titular reindeer has trouble making friends at the North Pole, as a consequence of …