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The Science of Kissing: Why Do We Do It?

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Image of the Day: NASA Discovers New Life Form

NASA has discovered a new life form completely unlike anything else on Earth.

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Scientists Find 95-million-year-old Bugs in African Amber

Scientists have found 95-million-year-old ancestors of modern spiders, wasps, ferns, and wingless ants inside samples of fossilized African amber....