The 2023 spring equinox is here — here's what it is and how it works

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Earth is a like 7,917-mile-wide rotisserie chicken.

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I make about $6,500 donating plasma over 100 times a year, but I don't do it for the money

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A person at a blood donation center, donating plasma.
You can donate plasma more often than blood.

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Data released by China suggests COVID-19 virus may have come from raccoon dogs and 'strengthens' Wuhan wet-market theory

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Raccoon dogs are small vulpine animals native to East Asia,
Raccoon dogs are small vulpine animals native to East Asia.

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A nature videographer flying a drone spotted an endangered loggerhead sea turtle struggling in the red tide. He quickly alerted wildlife officials who showed up to save it.

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The struggling loggerhead turtle was captured by nature videographer Michael McCarthy, owner of the See Through Canoe Company.

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Health experts call for a ban on toxic 'forever chemicals' after EPA moves to cut them from tap water

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Sara Dean and her 2-year-old son, Patrick, at their home in Parchment, Michigan, a few months after it was discovered that Parchment's drinking water was contaminated with high levels of PFAS.

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The history of the swastika: From a sign of luck and fortune to a symbol of evil

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Three iterations of the swastika. From left: a swastika on a Nazi arm band, a swastika next to the Norse god Odin, and a swastika on a Buddha statue
Three iterations of the swastika.

My family and I are going to pay $28K each to freeze our bodies in liquid nitrogen tanks after we die. We hope to wake up in the future.

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Dennis Kowalski has signed up to be preserved in a chamber that reaches freezing temperatures after death.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spots a rare star preparing to explode and die in a supernova

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A pre-supernova star, called a Wolf-Rayet star, in near-infrared and mid-infrared via the James Webb Space Telescope.

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10 qualities that bisexual people find attractive, according to science

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Bi people are attracted to others who are curious, romantic, intelligent, open, and much more.

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An oil spill off the Philippine coast has coated some of the world's most beautiful beaches in sludge: 'Our white sand is now black'

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Coast guard members clean up an oil slick on March 8 in Pola, Oriental Mindoro.
Coast guard members clean up an oil slick on March 8 in Pola, Oriental Mindoro.

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