Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.
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What’s a Potato? A Nine-Million-Year-Old Tomato.
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The modern potato evolved from a wild tomato fling 9 million years ago, scientists say
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‘This wasn’t obvious’: the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor, researchers find
Full Coverage of this storyColossal flood explodes through Greenland Ice Sheet. What scientists find in aftermath astounds them
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'It was so unexpected': 90 billion liters of meltwater punched its way through Greenland ice sheet in never-before-seen melting event
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Enormous Fountain of Water Bursts through Greenland Ice, Surprising Geoscientists
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90 Billion Liters of Water Punched Through Greenland's Ice Sheet – And Nobody Noticed
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Outburst of a subglacial flood from the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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Full Coverage of this storyClouds force last-minute delay for astronaut launch to the International Space Station
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Full Coverage of this storyFields of worms and snowy microbial mats: Deep-sea submersible discovers flourishing ecosystem
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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
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Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
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Stunning New Video Reveals Deepest-Known Undersea Life Forms
Full Coverage of this storyExisting NASA Spacecraft Could Intercept the Weird Interstellar Object Cruising Into Our Star System
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Harvard scientist believes interstellar comet could be alien craft: "We should put all possibilities on the table"
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Here we go again! Controversial paper questions whether interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'possibly hostile' alien tech in disguise
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Interstellar Meteors Are Probably Hitting Earth All the Time, Scientists Say
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Full Coverage of this storyJWST sees beauty in the death of a star, offers a preview of what's in store for our sun
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Full Coverage of this storyHere's how to see this week's double meteor shower
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Two meteor showers peak Tuesday night. Here's how to view them.
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Full Coverage of this storyGood news for Mars settlers? Red Planet glaciers are mostly pure water ice, study suggests
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New Study Suggests Mars Glaciers Could be Almost Entirely Water Ice
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Mars glaciers found to be 80% ice – could fuel future human settlements
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Glaciers On Mars Are Mostly Water Ice, Study Finds
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Mars Glaciers Have More Water Content than Previously Thought
Full Coverage of this storyFirefly Aerospace wins fourth lunar lander award
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Firefly Awarded $177 Million NASA Contract for Mission to the Moon’s South Pole
NASA Selects Firefly for New Artemis Science, Tech Delivery to Moon
NASA taps Firefly for 2029 Moon South Pole mission with $180 million contract
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NASA supports Firefly Aerospace for a major lunar south pole mission
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Full Coverage of this storyWeirdly Hot Rocks in New England Traced to 80-Million-Year-Old Greenland Rift
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Hot blob beneath Appalachians formed when Greenland split from North America — and it's heading to New York
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Deep heat beneath the United States traced to ancient rift with Greenland
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“Hot Rock” Under Appalachians Traveled From Greenland To US At 20 Kilometers Per Million Years – And Is Still Moving
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Full Coverage of this storySpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket Thursday morning at Vandenberg Space Force Base
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Live Coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission is Underway
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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch Crew-11 to ISS; ISRO and NASA launch new SAR satellite
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SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket on ship at sea (video)
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Full Coverage of this storyIncredible Re-Run of the Double Slit Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong Again
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MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment
MIT confirms Einstein was wrong in century-old light experiment
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Double-Slit Experiment Performed With Single Atoms Shows Einstein Was Wrong
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MIT finds Einstein was wrong in 100-year-old wave-particle dispute with Niels Bohr
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Full Coverage of this storyLightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations show
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A bolt is born! Atmospheric events underpinning lightning strikes explained
What happens right before lightning strikes? Scientists have solved the mystery
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How Does Lightning Start? New Research Provides a Groundbreaking Theory
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Cosmic rays caught sparking lightning on Earth, study
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Full Coverage of this story'Sleeping giant' fault beneath Canada could unleash a major earthquake, research suggests
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Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich ocean planet: 'This has certainly increased the chances of habitability'
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Hints of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b Recede Even Further
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Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b have all but vanished
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Planet K2-18b may not host alien life, but it is home to a water-rich interior
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No Life But Lots Of Water – Latest Observations From Controversial Planet K2-18b
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Full Coverage of this storyMy Daughter Has Been Offered the Opportunity of a Lifetime. My Wife Thinks She Can’t Handle It.
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Planetary scientist Michele Dougherty made first female UK astronomer royal
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Full Coverage of this storyJames Webb Space Telescope finds giant, lonely exoplanets can build their own planetary friends without a parent star
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Full Coverage of this storySolar Eclipse 2025: When and where to watch the final eclipse of the year and why it is important
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Full Coverage of this storyEerie Sea Creatures Could Hold the Secret to Forest Revival
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Full Coverage of this storyHarvard Physicist Says "This Ultra-Thin Chip Changes Everything" as Quantum Optics Breakthrough Triggers Global Race for Next-Gen Military Tech
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"NASA Calls It the ‘Skyfall Maneuver’" as Plan to Drop 6 Mars Helicopters Mid-Air Divides Experts and Fuels Outrage Over Billion-Dollar Space Risks
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Wild new 'Skyfall' Mars mission would drop 6 scout helicopters onto the Red Planet from the air (video)
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NASA Concept Would Release an Autonomous Helicopter Swarm on Mars
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Skyfall Is the World's First-Ever Drone Carrier Designed to Work On Alien Worlds
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Full Coverage of this storyKate Rubins, 1st astronaut to sequence DNA in space, leaves NASA
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Astrophysicist Says "We’re Trapped in a Black Hole" as James Webb Unleashes Panic Over Mind-Bending Discovery That Shakes All Known Physics
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"This Changes Everything" as NASA Sends Historic Radio Telescope to Moon's Far Side and Sparks Fierce Debate Over Space Power and Global Surveillance
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Random Employee Searches To Resume at NASA HQ
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Biggest cosmic explosion on record since the Big Bang is revealing the secrets of gamma-ray bursts
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The brightest explosion ever seen is still baffling astronomers
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CTAO telescope uncovers fresh evidence for layered jet structures in historic gamma ray burst
The Universe's Brightest Flash Reveals the Secrets of Cosmic Jet
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Record-breaking gamma-ray burst reveals new clues into cosmic jets
Full Coverage of this storyHubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: 'It was a lucky break'
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Full Coverage of this storyGeologists Uncover 400-Mile-Long Chain of Fossilized Volcanoes in Southern China
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Paleontologists Discover First Evidence of Multispecies Dinosaur Herding
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Different dinosaur species may have really traveled together like in the movies
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Scientists unearth a 76-million-year-old mystery in Canada
Full Coverage of this storyStray Injured Siamese Kitten Runs To Stranger for Help and Finds His Forever Home
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NASA Spots Mysterious Ghost Island in the Caspian Sea That Emerges and Quickly Fades
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Hidden Muscles? No. This Prehistoric Fish Just Proved Evolution Got It Wrong
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Full Coverage of this storyNASA alert! Asteroid 2025 OL1 set for close Earth encounter on July 30 at 16,900 mph; scientists track ra
A giant 110-foot asteroid is on a collision course with Earth today, NASA confirms
NASA on alert as asteroid heading for 'close approach' to Earth at 16,900mph
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Full Coverage of this storyWatch the Earth split in real time: First-ever video reveals 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds caused by an
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Caught on Camera: Rare Footage Reveals How a Giant Earthquake Tore the Earth in Seconds
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Watch the Earth split in real time: Stunning footage reveals a 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds
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