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DNA from eight teeth in a Polish cave reconstructed one of Europe’s oldest Neanderthal families

Scientists mapped ocean currents off Antarctica plunging half a mile deep, reading them from space

A landslide from the Philippine quake buried 13 villagers in the town of Glan

A faint “gravity hole” in the Indian Ocean traces to rock moving deep inside Earth

A deep-ocean expedition off Brazil turned up two dozen new creatures in the sea’s darkest layer

Astronomers say short, violent feeding frenzies let some black holes balloon to billions of times the Sun’s mass far faster than anyone expected

Your body builds about 330 billion new cells every single day

A full day on Jupiter lasts under 10 hours

Light from the Sun’s core can take 100,000 years to reach the surface

An average cumulus cloud can weigh more than a million pounds

Elephants can talk over miles using rumbles too low for human ears

Human bone is, ounce for ounce, stronger than steel yet far lighter

A teaspoon of soil holds more microbes than there are people on Earth

Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so the current cannot drift them apart

Neptune and Uranus may rain solid diamonds deep inside their crushing atmospheres

Your brain is 2% of your weight but burns a fifth of your energy

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