It’s All About the Benjamins Gene therapies can cure some diseases, but they’re ridiculously expensive. We’re talking ‘sell your house’ expensive. And it gets worse – where you live can also make it tough to get this specialized care. The

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New Dino Discovery Scientists just found a crazy-looking dinosaur in Niger – meet Spinosaurus mirabilis, a semi-aquatic fish-eater with a horn that’s just plain ridiculous. It’s got a face that’s all about catching fish, and that huge horn? Probably used

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Historians’ Gloomy Forecast Tomorrow won’t be better than today, historians have confirmed. It’s a bleak outlook, but one that’s rooted in reality. Hope can be a powerful thing, but it can also turn into delusion. The Dark Side of Optimism

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Scientists Stumble Upon Missing Link It’s not every day you find a missing piece of the evolutionary puzzle, but that’s exactly what’s happening in the oceans and on land. Scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between

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Emergency Deployment Four astronauts just showed up at the International Space Station, and it’s not just a routine visit. They’re here to replace the NASA crew that made an emergency exit last month. That’s right, it’s been 65 years since

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Monkeying Around It’s official: humans aren’t the only ones who can pretend. A new study shows our closest living relatives, apes, can play make-believe too. That’s right, they’re having tea parties and pretending to be someone they’re not – just

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Breaking News: Apes Might Actually Have Imagination Scientists just made a pretty wild discovery: an ape in captivity can apparently play pretend. We’re talking full-on, tea-party-with-invisible-friends style imagination. It’s a first, and it’s kind of a big deal. The Experiment

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Tragedy Strikes It’s been 40 years since the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members on board. The disaster shocked the nation and it’s still etched in people’s memories today. A National

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