2 cicada broods are popping up together for the first time in 221 years — and they'll meet in Illinois

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Photo collage of Cicadas

Cicada Safari Press, Tyler Le/BI

The doomed US moon lander is on a collision course with Earth and will be destroyed to protect other satellites

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Photo of dented Multi-Layer Insulation on board the Peregrine mission.
This image taken from Peregrine after launch showed damage to the lander's outer sheeting.

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Iceland scientists want to drill a hole straight into a reservoir of molten magma about a mile underground. It could generate limitless energy.

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A picture shows clouds billowing out of the a rig and of a hole in the ground, on a snowy backdrop.
Clouds of smoke billow out of a borehole created when scientists accidentally drilled into a magma chamber in 2009.

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Nasa astronomers says signal coming from outside our galaxy is 'unexpected and as yet unexplained'

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This artist's concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving.
An artist's concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

A college senior used AI to try and disprove the long-held belief that all fingerprints are unique

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A fingerprint scanner is integrated into the printed circuit.
A new study using AI aims to argue that not every fingerprint is unique.

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Scientists accidentally discovered a giant ring-shaped cosmic megastructure that challenges our understanding of the Universe

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A view of many stars and galaxies, all white and yellow light with starry streaks coming off them
Euclid's view of globular cluster NGC 6397

European Space Agency/Euclid Consortium/NASA; image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi

Multiple sclerosis is more common among white Europeans. Researchers studying ancient DNA may have figured out why.

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Bronze decorated with horses, people, parasites, and DNA
Researchers have traced genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis to a population of herders who arrived in Europe 5,000 years ago.

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A 'lost valley of cities' built thousands of years ago has been found in the Amazon

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Aerial shot of river in the Amazon rainforest, Ecuador.
Amazon rainforest, Ecuador.

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Meet the female force who halted a major development project to preserve her working-class neighborhood and make it a leader in clean energy

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Headshot of Elizabeth Yeampierre.
Elizabeth Yeampierre is the executive director of UPROSE — a Sunset Park community organization focused on sustainability and resiliency.

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Peruvian researchers rule out aliens as the creators of 2 mysterious dolls

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A scientist in a white coat holds a small humanoid figurine made of paper, glue, and animal bones.
Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada from Peru's prosecutor's office shows a doll, which was seized by authorities before it was shipped to Mexico, during a press conference to explain what it is made of at the Archeology Museum in Lima, Peru.

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