Sleep in this weekend — it may help you live longer and avoid heart disease

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Sleeping late on the weekends to catch up after a busy week can pay off, according to science

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Mexico's drought is so severe you can see the effects from space

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Mexico is experiencing its most widespread drought in over a decade.

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Heaviest Antimatter Discovery May Unlock Dark Matter Mysteries

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A 5-year-old accidentally smashed a 3,500-year-old artifact on a museum trip in every parent's worst nightmare

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A 3,500-year-old jar lies smashed in pieces at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel.
A 3,500-year-old jar lies smashed in pieces at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel.

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An amateur fossil hunter found a 7-foot-long mammoth tusk that's thousands of years old — take a look

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Eddie Templeton (right) found a well-preserved mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek.

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SpaceX is launching 4 people on a risky mission to fly through radiation belts and do the first commercial spacewalk

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The Polaris Dawn crew: Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman, and Sarah Gillis.

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A heat stroke ended this pro-athlete's career and 8 years later she's still feeling its effects

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Amy Steel's netball career ended in 2016 after a heat-related illness.

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NASA picks SpaceX to bring home the American astronauts stuck in space. It's the latest blow to Boeing.

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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner, have been stuck in space for 11 weeks.

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Being flexible can actually help you live longer, scientists say. Here's why.

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Better flexibility is linked to a lower risk of dying early, new research suggests. Exercises like yoga could help.

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Scientists Trained a Lump of Goo to Play Pong

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