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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Joaquin Phoenix played "Napoleon" in Ridley Scott's last biopic.

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Want a happy and creative future? Spend more time longing for the past.

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Nostalgia doesn't hinder progress, it actually helps us move forward.

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Scientists thought an ancient tomb had been lost 170 years ago until one expert discovered it practically right in his backyard

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Billy Mag Fhloinn took photos of a stone that he later realized belonged to a lost Bronze Age tomb.

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Elon Musk claims the first human patient has received a Neuralink brain implant

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Thousands of people have expressed interest in participating in the FDA trial for Neuralink, Bloomberg reported.

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Japan's moon probe landed upside-down but somehow it still works

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Imagery from one of its rovers shows the SLIM probe landed at a peculiar angle.

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Researchers spotted a baby great white for the first time ever, and it could help solve one of shark science's biggest mysteries

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For what may be the first time, footage shows a baby white shark swimming off the coast of California.

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