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Universe’s brightest known object and fastest-growing black hole revealed

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Three new moons discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune

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Archimedes’ death ray might have worked, teen science project suggests

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Planet-forming disk detected around star in another galaxy for the first time

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SpaceX Starship’s second test flight ends in loss of megarocket

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Intricate animal patterns: A new study could have the answer

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Did the same collision that formed the moon create mysterious blobs inside Earth?

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Early Europeans thrived on seaweed, study of dental plaque reveals

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Octopus DNA may reveal when West Antarctic ice sheet most recently collapsed

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Early risers may have inherited faster body clock from Neanderthals

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