Inside Canada's polar bear 'jail' where bears go without food and are kept behind bars — but it's not what you might think

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Seven polar bears stand on a sheet of ice as the sun set behind them.
Bears walking on the ice flats outside the town of Churchill, Canada.

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What does 'No Animals Were Harmed' mean? The disclaimer is not a guarantee of animal safety

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A dog on a production set surrounded by fire.
Special effects operators controlled the fire in this scene, keeping it at a safe distance so no smoke or fumes endangered the dog.

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Inside the world's only high-energy collision antimatter factory where scientists create the most explosive substance in the universe to understand why we exist

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cern location
CERN is located on the France-Switzerland border.

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I've studied the sun for 23 years. Here's what happened during the last solar maximum and what to expect from this one.

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Four images of a solar flare at different wavelengths.
The upcoming solar maximum should cause more frequent solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

I'm a vet who had a retro pug live for 18 years. Here's how I kept her healthy and why this super breed lives longer than pugs.

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Image of veterinarian Candy Akers with two dogs.
Candy Akers is a veterinarian who has treated pugs, retro pugs, and many other breeds.

Candy Akers

I lost my ID in another country and forfeited $2,500 when my trip was cut short. Here's what I learned and how I got home.

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Image of it raining in Vancouver.
The author lost her ID somewhere along the city streets in Vancouver, Canada.

Crystal Raypole

A former fentanyl user describes the first time she took the illicit drug laced with xylazine as 'the scariest experience of my life'

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Elissa Tierney with her daughter and President Joe Biden.
Elissa Tierney (right) and her daughter (middle) met President Joe Biden (left) at an event in Philadelphia.

Elissa Tierney

Why SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket looks unlike anything the company has ever built before

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SpaceX Super Heavy first-stage booster with the black side of its Starship second stage booster showing.
SpaceX's starship is designed to be the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built.

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Humans can't live forever, but we haven't even come close to the limit for how long our bodies could last

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Cartoon of a person in a cryogenic chamber with scientists studying him.
Millions of dollars are going toward companies worldwide looking to lengthen the human lifespan.

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Rare video footage of a tardigrade threesome that lasted 30 minutes documents the wild sex lives of water bears

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Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a water bear, or tardigrade.
Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a water bear, or tardigrade.

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