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Early Nor'easter, Missouri Maps, and Attention Span Fixes

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An Early Nor'easter
  1. 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Nor'easters can produce thundersnow—lightning in blizzard conditions
  2. 0.43 · longform · keep 0.10 · Watch a North Carolina house collapse into the ocean
  3. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Bomb cyclones can produce heavy rain, blizzard conditions, and intense winds
  4. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.57 · Within an 18-hour period in 1974, 13 states were hit by 148 tornadoes
  5. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Hurricanes may kill 300 times more people than officially reported
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Science Museum Swan Song
  1. 0.61 · experiences · keep 0.72 · Take a tour of the Museum of Natural History
  2. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · Nearly 99% of the Smithsonian's specimens are hidden in high-security
  3. 0.51 · experiences · keep 0.25 · As of 2023, there are about 1.1 billion objects stored in 73 of the world's largest natural history museums, but only about 16% of specimens are available in digital archives.
  4. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.61 · A virtual tour of Philadelphia’s American Revolution Museum
  5. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · The Smithsonian is the world's largest museum complex
  6. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.27 · Whose bodies are held inside the American Museum of Natural History?
  7. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.33 · When a museum closes, it may need to sell or auction assets to pay off its debts, which can result in the breakup of valuable collections and the relocation of pieces to successor institutions and private collectors.
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Missouri Map Mayhem
  1. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.14 · A 2013 Supreme Court case weakened federal oversight of redistricting
  2. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · Republicans launched a mid-decade redistricting push in 2025
  3. 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Track the unusual push for mid-decade redistricting across the US
  4. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · In 2025, Democratic-led states moved to counter with their own redistricting plans
  5. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Can courts end partisan gerrymandering?
  6. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Researchers found that 2020 redistricting tactics created safer districts and reduced competition
  7. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.40 · See the most oddly gerrymandered districts in the US
  8. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Thousands of state voting changes have been federally blocked since the Voting Rights Act
  9. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · The Missouri Compromise temporarily eased tensions over slavery's expansion
  10. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.31 · Missouri had the fastest job growth rate in 2025
  11. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Missouri's nickname refers to its residents' skepticism
  12. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.20 · Mid-decade redistricting is historically rare in modern US history
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Grandparents are ecstatic to learn they're getting a third set of twin grandbabies.
  1. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.40 · Couple welcomes rare quadruplet daughters who are actually a set of twins
  2. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.39 · Siblings surprise their parents with a recreation of a 1980s childhood photo
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Taylor Swift wins video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards; see full list of winners
  1. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.71 · Watch Taylor Swift write a song
  2. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.14 · In 2023 Taylor Swift made history having the most #1 albums of any female artist
  3. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.31 · Watch this video to find out how Taylor Swift became a billionaire from her musical empire.
  4. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Taylor Swift is one of the most successful artists in the world
  5. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Taylor Swift is one of the world's most successful artists
  6. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.12 · Taylor Swift became more outspoken about her politics in the late 2010s
  7. 0.42 · longform · keep 0.17 · Taylor Swift's life took a turn after controversies with Kanye West
  8. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Taylor Swift influenced record labels to change the way they write contracts
  9. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.13 · BTS was the 2020 Time Entertainer of the Year
  10. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.43 · The Eras Tour generated $2B in ticket sales, but $5B in consumer spending
  11. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.33 · Taylor Swift's relationship with Kansas City Chief's star Travis Kelce helped boost the NFL's popularity, especially among younger generations.
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Oregon QB Dante Moore out indefinitely with a concussion after taking a late hit from a USC defender
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Baseball regular season ends; wild-card round begins tomorrow, see postseason bracket
  1. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Americans spent nearly $150B in sports-related bets in 2024
  2. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The MLB consist of 30 teams
  3. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.54 · Major League Baseball, explained
  4. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.14 · MLB 2023 rules changes were the most dramatic alterations in decades, drastically speeding up the game.
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Jon Watts, the director behind three "Spider-Man" films from 2017-21, will lead the first installment of a new
  1. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · The 'Star Wars' series begins where George Lucas believed the story was most accessible
  2. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.54 · The numbers behind the 'Star Wars' franchise
  3. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · Breaking down the many box office records 'Star Wars' has broken
  4. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · A deep dive into the long road to making 'Star Wars'
  5. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · How 'Star Wars' changed science fiction
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OpenAI pauses training of latest models for second time in three months amid multiple reports of its agents pr
  1. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Sam Altman has said that OpenAI released version 3.5 of ChatGPT early as a public service to allow the public to adjust to the new tool before rolling out ChatGPT-4.
  2. 0.52 · experiences · keep 0.17 · Anthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI tools through 'evals'—safety tests that probe models to disclose sensitive information.
  3. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.12 · As occurred during the 2026 hack of an AI platform by OpenAI, agentic AI may exploit a system vulnerability to access sensitive data if that information enables it to complete its assigned task.
  4. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.23 · In 2023, OpenAI spent $520 million on ChatGPT
  5. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.28 · Unlike the models made by large AI companies, open-weight models can have their safeguards removed or weakened, a process that has become increasingly easy and may expose users to harmful information.
  6. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
  7. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.62 · OpenAI initially focused on novelty projects, like training AI bots to win video games, before becoming known for its AI chatbot ChatGPT.
  8. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that rattled US competitors when it made an AI model much faster and cheaper than they did
  9. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · View a timeline of AI deployments from 2017 to 2025
  10. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Scientists increasingly can't predict what AI will do
  11. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Through prompt injection attacks, bad actors provide deceptive prompts to generative AI systems in order to manipulate their outputs and acquire sensitive data.
  12. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Google invented the foundation of the AI movement—but ChatGPT was a shock
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What would it take to build trustworthy AI?
  1. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Scientists increasingly can't predict what AI will do
  2. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.35 · What does it mean for AI to "understand" something?
  3. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.28 · AI experts argue that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity in two primary ways: Humans weaponizing extremely powerful AI, or humans losing control of it.
  4. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Artificial superintelligence is the final frontier of artificial intelligence, surpassing human intelligence in every domain and capable of acquiring knowledge and skills without human intervention.
  5. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Will AI kill us all? A debate.
  6. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The promise and peril of AI in agriculture
  7. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.72 · Some experts suggest there is an approximately 10% chance that AI agents will cause human extinction if they become superintelligent, go rogue, and hijack critical computer systems.
  8. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.20 · A brief history of artificial intelligence.
  9. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Anthropic's interpretability team discusses how AI models' thinking mimics biology
  10. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · Decoding the hype around AI
  11. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.37 · Artificial general intelligence equals or surpasses human intelligence
  12. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.53 · As of 2025, artificial intelligence systems remain narrow and specialized
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Archaeologists excavate the first intact human burials from Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest known temple site
  1. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.41 · The archaeological discovery that shifted scientists' understanding of human evolution
  2. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.47 · When is it OK to dig up the dead?
  3. 0.49 · longform · keep 0.46 · The archaeology of human sacrifice
  4. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Cadaver dogs are helping archaeologists uncover decaying history
  5. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.39 · New scientific tools, such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis, have transformed what we know about who built Stonehenge.
  6. 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.58 · What can we learn from archaeology?
  7. 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.27 · Human settlements may be older than previously thought
  8. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · Santa Barbara's Channel Islands revealed the oldest skeletal remains in North America
  9. 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.45 · Explore these collections of early human fossils
  10. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.39 · Searching for the history of cancer in ancient human bones
  11. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · A cave painting might be the oldest illustrated story ever recorded
  12. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.63 · Here's how early humans lived
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Mount Vesuvius' eruption helps scientists refine geochronology methods to more accurately date Earth's history
  1. 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Mount Vesuvius' ancient Roman eruption may have literally boiled blood
  2. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it buried the Roman city of Pompeii under 20 feet of ash, which preserved it for nearly 1,700 years.
  3. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · When exactly did Mount Vesuvius erupt in ancient Rome?
  4. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · Volcanologist survives 5 eruptions while living on Mount Vesuvius
  5. 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.76 · Experts reconstruct Pompeii’s daily life—and whether disaster could strike again
  6. 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.33 · A 101 on Pompeii
  7. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.46 · Explore the archaeological treasures of Pompeii, the city buried under volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE.
  8. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.28 · Scientists can determine Earth's past environmental conditions by analyzing sediment cores—accumulated layers of mud and remains of charcoal, pollen, plants, algae, and other organic material.
  9. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.28 · Paleontologists apply rules about rock layering, fossilization, and radioactivity to date geological samples
  10. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.38 · How powerful was the volcanic blast that destroyed parts of ancient Rome?
  11. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · How did people survive the eruption in Pompeii?
  12. 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.46 · See Mount Vesuvius from space
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Watch a 3D animation of Pompeii's final day
  1. 0.75 · experiences · keep 0.84 · Watch a 3D animation of Pompeii's final day.
  2. 0.64 · experiences · keep 0.76 · Experts reconstruct Pompeii’s daily life—and whether disaster could strike again
  3. 0.53 · experiences · keep 0.46 · Explore the archaeological treasures of Pompeii, the city buried under volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE.
  4. 0.51 · experiences · keep 0.77 · Explore the British Museum's Pompeii and Herculaneum collection
  5. 0.51 · experiences · keep 0.33 · A 101 on Pompeii
  6. 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.71 · Explore Pompeii with an interactive map packed with 60+ key sites
  7. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.83 · Researchers think most of its residents escaped with their lives—but how?
  8. 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.86 · Visualize ancient Rome in 3D with this aerial view
  9. 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.22 · Pompeii's buried secrets are still being revealed
  10. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it buried the Roman city of Pompeii under 20 feet of ash, which preserved it for nearly 1,700 years.
  11. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · How did people survive the eruption in Pompeii?
  12. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.83 · A nearby town proved even more archaeologically important than Pompeii
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US stock markets finish Friday up (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.9%, Nasdaq +0.5%), fueled by a drop in oil prices fol
  1. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Beyond oil, the Iran war has pushed up costs on fertilizer, prescriptions, and mortgages.
  2. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
  3. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Iran's 1979 revolution sparked a second oil shock—and reconfigured global energy markets.
  4. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
  5. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Why have gas prices surged nearly 27% since the Iran war began?
  6. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
  7. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · US IPO issuance—the total dollar amount of new stock sold to the public via IPOs—hit a record high in 2026.
  8. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.46 · The stock market, explained in 3 minutes
  9. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Oil markets are seeing higher costs and lower prices amid tech breakthroughs
  10. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Why does the stock market matter?
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Ban on some Canadian alcohol goes into effect at midnight tonight
  1. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.11 · Some US states are now revising their happy hour bans
  2. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · Happy hour is banned in Ireland
  3. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.24 · Massachusetts banned happy hour in 1984 during a surge in advocacy around preventing drunk driving
  4. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · Despite originating in America, happy hour isn't allowed in every state.
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Jury finds Apple owes more than $5.7B in damages for unintentional patent infringement around haptic technolog
  1. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · The Beatles sued technology company Apple in 1978 to defend naming rights to their record label, Apple Corps.
  2. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Apple, the tech giant renowned for products like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, started out in a garage in 1976.
  3. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.35 · See which Apple products drive the most of its $391B revenue.
  4. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.69 · Watch Steve Jobs unveil the first iPhone in 2007
  5. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.21 · In 2018, Apple became the world's first publicly traded trillion-dollar company
  6. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · Read about the time Apple tried to trademark an actual apple in Switzerland
  7. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · Creating the iPhone ended the marriages of several of Apple's engineers
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Trump administration cuts Biden-era fuel economy standards; proposed rule cuts fleetwide averages for cars and
  1. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · Auto and consumer goods companies absorbed billions in costs due to President Trump's 2025 tariffs.
  2. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · Trump's 2025 tariffs represent a significant break from the rules-based trade order
  3. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Track how American tariffs have impacted different countries and industries.
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Diesel prices down slightly week over week, around $6.47 per gallon
  1. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.32 · How much do you pay in gas taxes?
  2. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.65 · Hear Steve Ballmer explain how US gas prices are affected by the global price of oil.
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President Donald Trump rejects Iranian offer to restart talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz; US reportedly fo
  1. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · A report found that the 2026 Iran war is the largest oil supply disruption in history.
  2. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Beyond oil, the Iran war has pushed up costs on fertilizer, prescriptions, and mortgages.
  3. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Why have gas prices surged nearly 27% since the Iran war began?
  4. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.49 · Hear how the US and Iran went from close allies to bitter adversaries after the 1979 revolution.
  5. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.06 · Congress has unsuccessfully voted on war powers resolutions over Trump's military operations in Venezuela and Iran
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Five men arrested on suspicion of terrorist activity outside RAF Fairford, a British airbase used by the US
  1. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · Who were the Cambridge Five
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Northern Ireland's "Orange Order" cleared to hold contentious Drumcree parade for the first time since 1998; m
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What were "the Troubles?"
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At least 27 people killed, more than two dozen wounded in separate mass shootings outside South Africa's Johan
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Four ways to fix your attention span. (via YouTube)
  1. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Easy resets for stress reduction
  2. 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.53 · Small ways to improve your health today: an animated guide
  3. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.65 · What to listen to if you want to focus
  4. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.78 · Vertigo may be reduced by retraining your brain with visual fixation
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How often should you wash sheets and towels?
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Dogs and cats are hooked on a new Netflix cartoon.
  1. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · The funniest pet photos of 2022
  2. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · See nine celebrities who adopted animals they met on set.
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Take an audio tour of America's Wild West.
  1. 0.55 · experiences · keep 0.60 · Discover the 'American Serengeti' Lewis and Clark first recorded
  2. 0.46 · longform · keep 0.65 · A riveting retelling of the 1846 Donner Party, the doomed western pioneers
  3. 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.46 · A free archive of firsthand historical documents from explorers of America
  4. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.78 · Listen to a podcast about the eerie side of national parks
  5. 0.43 · longform · keep 0.69 · Native voices share their histories along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
  6. 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.70 · Take a video tour of Wall Street's historic architecture, guided by a professional architect.
  7. 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.79 · Check out an interactive map of 250 American places worth visiting before you die.
  8. 0.40 · longform · keep 0.58 · Hear firsthand stories from the Civil War
  9. 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.17 · Explore the technical side of the Erie Canal
  10. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Check out the 50 weirdest roadside attractions in the US, from Alabama's Unclaimed Baggae Center to Wyoming's Elkhorn Arch.
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Explore the demographics of your county and state.
  1. 0.55 · experiences · keep 0.47 · Explore data on every US county with this interactive
  2. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.28 · Explore detailed US census data for each state
  3. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.26 · Understand the US electorate demographics
  4. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.66 · An interactive look at your own life through demographics
  5. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.65 · See how populations across the world could change in the 21st century
  6. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · Striking demographic trends from 2022
  7. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.56 · See the origins of the foreign-born population of the United States from 1850 to 2020.
  8. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.45 · America's demographic change in one chart
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Iced coffee at interviews is the new intergenerational debate.
  1. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · Beanless 'coffee' is an eco-friendly alternative
  2. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Coffee was put on trial in Mecca in 1511, and its eventual acceptance helped coffee spread beyond religious use and into the world's first public coffeehouses, which ultimately gave birth to the London Stock Exchange.
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Fast-food chain Wendy's enters its emo phase with a six-song EP. ( listen here)
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Scientists discover a three-lipped sea spider species.
  1. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Spiders may manipulate captured male fireflies into mimicking female mating signals
  2. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · The deep-sea fangtooth has the largest teeth of any marine species relative to body size
  3. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.34 · Scientists create the first CRISPR-modified spider to enhance its silk proteins
  4. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.79 · Spiders can make up to seven types of silk, with some able to withstand twice the force of ultra-high-strength steel of the same mass and length before breaking.
  5. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · Meet Cystisoma, the 7-inch crustacean with eyes for a head
  6. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Spinosaurus had the weirdest dinosaur tail of all time
  7. 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.84 · The 10 most amazing deep sea creatures
  8. 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.84 · Meet siphonophores, breathtaking jellyfish-like organisms
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Give your salad a seasonal flair with spooky ranch dressing.
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