How elephants 'hear' with their feet, and how you can do it, too

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Elephants can use their feet to sense vibrations in the ground.

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Cats can play fetch like dogs but probably not for the same reasons

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Researchers found some cats like to play fetch, if their owners abide by their rules.

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The most powerful solar eruption in years fired a powerful 'X-class' solar flare that just hit Earth, and scientists are monitoring for more possible outbursts

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The sun is growing more active.

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The world's first human brain-scale supercomputer will go live next year

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A doctor who helped collect hundreds of unauthorized remains for the Smithsonian in the early 1900s disproportionately took the brains of Black people: report

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A Paleontology collection at the Smithsonian.

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Jeff Bezos says humans will live in massive space stations before settling on other planets, once again veering away from Elon Musk's Mars ambitions

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Jeff Bezos puts on googles that belonged to aviator Amelia Mar Earhart.

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This is what happens to space tomatoes that get lost on the International Space Station for 8 months

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Two space-grown tomatoes were found earlier this month eight months after they disappeared on the International Space Station.

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The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars

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The sun can make or break Mars.

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1200 tons of fish washed up on a Japanese beach and nobody knows why

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1,200 tons of fish on the coast of Hakodate, Japan.
1,200 tons of fish washed up on the coast of Hakodate, Japan.

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If you're an early riser, you may have Neanderthal DNA to thank for it

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The cast of a Neanderthal skull is displayed in the Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology

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