Mummified animals Napoleon's scientists brought back from Egypt sparked a pre-Darwinian debate about evolution

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A side-by-side image of Georges Cuvier and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck both from the early 19th century
Georges Cuvier (left) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck fundamentally disagreed on whether or not species can change over time.

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Get used to it: America's winters will be a lot less snowy from now on

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Outside a window, a child tries to muster up enough snow for a snowman but can't quite. Inside, a photo frame with the same child next to a giant snowman in a snowy version of the same landscape.
Last December was the warmest on record for much of the Midwest. It's the beginning of a new normal.

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Mark Zuckerberg explains why he wants to feed his cattle beer and macadamia nuts

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Mark Zuckerberg.

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NASA explains how it would alert the public of an apocalyptic asteroid strike

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An artist's impression of what an asteroid impact on Earth would look like.

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NASA opens rare job opportunity to live in a Mars simulation for a year

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four people wearing black polo shirts with the same small orange triangle logo pose together in front of a hanging tapestry of an island sunset with thanksgiving turkey drawings pinned at the top
The inaugural CHAPEA crew celebrates Thanksgiving inside the habitat. From left to right: Nathan Jones, Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell.

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Oppenheimer's famous quote 'I am become Death' isn't really his. The ominous words come from Hindu scripture.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.

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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.

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Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.

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A methane well that leaked for 6 months has released a year's worth of emissions for 791,000 cars: report

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Methane well pumpjacks.
Methane well pumpjacks. A methane well leak occurred over 6 months in Kazakhstan in 2023.

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'Intellectually inferior' humans caused Neanderthals to go extinct, a new book claims

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An exhibit of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia.

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'Oppenheimer' doesn't get Einstein's relationship with the Los Alamos director quite right. Here's what they really thought of each other.

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Einstein and Oppenheimer talking in Oppenheimer movie
Tom Conti as Albert Einstein and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer."

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