YouTube helped solve an evolutionary mystery that's puzzled biologists for decades

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Light microscope images of euglenoid cysts from Greece dating between the Holocene and the present era. Researchers recently saw evidence of euglenoids making cysts for the first time.

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I tried the perfect space meal for astronauts, and it was surprisingly flavorful and easy to make

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A salad containing sweet potatoes, kale, and barley on a rainbow-striped plate.

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A football stadium-sized asteroid will blaze by Earth today. Here's how to watch the potentially hazardous 'city killer' live.

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The asteroid flying by Earth won't make another close approach to our planet until 2037.

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Yes, the moon is shrinking but that's not the disturbing news scientists discovered that could threaten future NASA missions

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Casual friendships are dying out — and we're all worse off for it

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Casual friendships are key to our emotional lives, but these "fringe friends" are slowly disappearing.

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Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.

Peter Thiel invests in group to recreate the Olympics on steroids — literally

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Peter Thiel is one of the investors in an organization that wants to build an Olympic Games that doesn't prohibit, but rather encourages, the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

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Plants can talk to each other and scientists say it should make us rethink how we treat them

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Scientists genetically engineered plants so they could see them talk to each other.

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A North Atlantic right whale was found dead near Martha's Vineyard. There are only around 360 left.

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A picture shows the dead female North Atlantic right whale that washed up on Joseph Sylvia State Beach on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Sunday.

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Scientists think they've finally solved the millennia-old mystery of why bugs flock to your porch light

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Scientists did field experiments in Costa Rica to see how different insects respond to artificial lights at night.

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Napoleon stranded a bunch of scientists in Egypt and now we have modern archaeology

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A still from the movie shows Joaquim Pheonix portraying Napoleon looking away from the camera as troops move through the desert in the background.
Joaquin Phoenix played "Napoleon" in Ridley Scott's last biopic.

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