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Study subjects with a gene variant that heightened their sensitivity to bitterness tended to eat fewer vegetables than people who didn't mind bitter flavors. Christopher Intagliata reports...
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Who Really Discovered the First Exoplanet?
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What the Protests and Violence in Chile Mean for Science
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Proposed Interstellar Mission Reaches for the Stars, One Generation at a Time
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150 Years of the Journal Nature
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How Big Is the Proton? Particle-Size Puzzle Leaps Closer to Resolution
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The Mercury Transit of 2019 Has Begun!
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Scientists Should Stop Naming Species after Awful People
And they ought to consider revoking names that never should have been honored in the first place
Is the Universe a Giant Loop?
A new study suggests the cosmos may be curved in upon itself like a ball—but many experts remain unconvinced
Galileo’s Big Mistake
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Starting in the early 2030s, the project could become our first purposeful step out of the solar system—if it launches at all
I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s
The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking mission reported positive results, although most have dismissed them as inorganic chemical reactions
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