What does 'No Animals Were Harmed' mean? The disclaimer is not a guarantee of animal safety

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A dog on a production set surrounded by fire.
Special effects operators controlled the fire in this scene, keeping it at a safe distance so no smoke or fumes endangered the dog.

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Strange, 7-foot-long cannibalistic fish with fangs that live in the deep sea are washing up on the West Coast and scientists don't know why

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A lancetfish face with fangs
Deep-sea lancetfish are known for partaking in cannibalism.

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Astronomers spot a sneak peek of Earth's death — a star swallowing a planet whole — for the first time

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This artist's interpretation shows a star so bloated that it's engulfing a doomed planet.

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Oliver Stone says you should be more worried about the climate crisis than the risks of using nuclear power

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Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant
Georgia Power Co. said Monday that a second new reactor had completed a testing phase at the company's Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant near Waynesboro, Georgia.

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Inside the world's only high-energy collision antimatter factory where scientists create the most explosive substance in the universe to understand why we exist

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CERN is located on the France-Switzerland border.

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NASA footage reveals 4 types of solar eruptions and 'holes' that could affect Earth as the sun grows more active

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the upper left side of the image – on January 10, 2023.

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The COVID-19 global health emergency is over, even as 1 person dies from the disease every 3 minutes, World Health Organization says

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A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the Huangpu district in Shanghai on December 19, 2022.
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the Huangpu district in Shanghai on December 19, 2022.

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9 things you think you know about ancient Egyptians that are actually wrong

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A close up of King Tutankhamun's golden mask.
A close up of King Tutankhamun's golden mask at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo after its restoration on December 16, 2015.

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The Eta Aquarids meteor shower is peaking, giving you the chance to see up to 40 shooting stars an hour. Here's how to watch.

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A past picture of the Eta Aquarids in the US.

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Billionaire Peter Thiel says he's signed up to be frozen and preserved when he dies so people can revive him in the future — if the tech even works

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Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, gestures as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022 in Miami, Florida.
Peter Thiel has signed up to be cryogenically frozen.

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