Doctor's transplanted a genetically-engineered pig heart into a human, again, and now the saved patient has reached a major milestone

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Lawrence Faucette, a pig heart transplant patient, works with a physical therapist at the school's hospital in Baltimore, Md
Lawrence Faucette, a pig heart transplant patient, works with a physical therapist at the school's hospital in Baltimore, Md.

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Earth's mysterious core appears to be leaking, leaving scientists baffled

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An opulent ancient Egyptian tomb containing 5,000-year-old wine may have belonged to a long-forgotten female pharaoh

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Side-by-side images show vistas from the tomb. On the left, a picture shows the ruins of an ancient tomb buried in a sandy landscape. The tomb's walls draw two concentric squares in the ground. On the right, ancient wine jars are seen half buried in the sand between narrow rectangular walls.
Side-by-side images show the tomb complex of Meret-Neith in Abydos, next to a picture of 5,000-year-old wine jars found in the grave.

An Egyptologist thought a pyramid might have hidden rooms. It took almost 200 years and lidar to prove him right.

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The interior of the Pyramid of Sahure, a storage room and a stone passageway
One of the storage rooms in the passageway recently found in the Pyramid of Sahure.

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America's electric grid is in shambles. Biden has made the largest federal investment ever to try and fix it.

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The American grid is old and not ready for the transition to clean energy.

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Most of us have a bit of Neanderthal DNA, with some more than others. Scientists think they've figured out why.

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A child stands nose to nose with a model of a Neanderthal at the Neanderthal Museum in Germany.

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It's okay to hit the snooze button. A new study shows it isn't bad for you and may even help you feel more alert.

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A woman lays in bed with her eyes closed, her hand hovering over the snooze button on a mobile phone.
Snoozing might have some sleep benefits.

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The marketing failure that's going to kill us all

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Amid the rising tide of the ocean's waves are floating ephemera of environmental marketing: A large orange billboard that says
Campaigns to help the environment aren't working. We need better messaging.

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Humans have launched so much to space that it's actually polluting Earth's atmosphere, a new study found

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Illustration of something impacting Earth creating a giant fireball in the atmosphere.
When something enters Earth's atmosphere, it's typically in a fiery blaze.

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A mysterious 4,000-year-old slab may be a treasure map that could point the way to long-lost Bronze Age riches

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A picture shows the engravings on the slab dots and cups carved in the rock are tied together by lines.
The Saint-Bélec slab was long a mysterious set of engravings, but scientists now think it's a map that could point to long-lost archaeological sites.

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