A billionaire hopes to change our understanding of sea life and save the oceans with a research vessel straight out of 'Star Trek'

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The OceanXplorer off the coast of the Azores.

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What Was the First Recreational Drug?

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Meet Jared Isaacman, the billionaire leading SpaceX's risky mission to take the first private space walk

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Jared Isaacman is set to lead the first commercial space walk, with SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission.

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A giant hole in Siberia is visible from space and growing rapidly. It might reveal hints about our planet's future.

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The Batagay crater, as seen on Google Earth in satellite data from May.

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Sleep in this weekend — it may help you live longer and avoid heart disease

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Sleeping late on the weekends to catch up after a busy week can pay off, according to science

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Mexico's drought is so severe you can see the effects from space

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Mexico is experiencing its most widespread drought in over a decade.

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Heaviest Antimatter Discovery May Unlock Dark Matter Mysteries

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Brookhaven Relativistic Ion Collider

A 5-year-old accidentally smashed a 3,500-year-old artifact on a museum trip in every parent's worst nightmare

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A 3,500-year-old jar lies smashed in pieces at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel.
A 3,500-year-old jar lies smashed in pieces at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel.

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An amateur fossil hunter found a 7-foot-long mammoth tusk that's thousands of years old — take a look

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Eddie Templeton (right) found a well-preserved mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek.

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SpaceX is launching 4 people on a risky mission to fly through radiation belts and do the first commercial spacewalk

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The Polaris Dawn crew: Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman, and Sarah Gillis.

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