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Humans

Sibling rivalry: How birth order affects your personality and health

Flawed stereotypes abound about bossy firstborns, middle-child syndrome and only children, but the true influence of sibling sequence is much stranger

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Physics

Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe’s radical new fate

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Police on duty

Technology

This professor of future crime stops burglaries before they happen

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Eggs in frying pan

Health

Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong

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Astronauts in mock cockpit

Space

Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

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Astronaut on Moon

Space

Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

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Space

Future moon missions probably won’t carry astronauts – here’s why

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A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased.

Space

7 bizarre objects from the festival’s worth of trash left on the moon

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Perito Moreno glacier

Earth

Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming

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Life

Why cat people and dog people’s personalities match those of their pet

People's personalities often have more in common with their dog or cat than their friends, and now we know why owners and their animals are such a purr-fect match

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Physics

The time paradox: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

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Health

Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious

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Life

The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth’s mass extinctions

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Earth

The north pole is moving and if it flips, life on Earth is in trouble

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