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A woman carries a sign outside a gate to Area 51 as an influx of tourists responding to a call to 'storm' Area 51, a secretive U.S. military base believed by UFO enthusiasts to hold government secrets about extra-terrestrials, is expected in Rachel, Nevada, U.S. September 20, 2019. Photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters

Nation Sep 20

Area 51 hoax morphs into weekend music festival

By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

A fluorescence micrograph of Caenorhabditis elegans, a free-living transparent nematode (roundworm), about 1 millimeter in length. Image by heitipaves/via Adobe Stock

These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity

New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet.

By Katherine Kornei, Scientific American

Why summer is the season of movie sequels, reboots and spin-offs

By PBS NewsHour

Stephen Hawking and billionaire plan interstellar cruise with $100 million initiative

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian-born billionaire announce new quest for space exploration.

By Nsikan Akpan

7 times that science explained aliens

You want to believe in aliens, UFOs, crop circles and Roswell, but science says not so fast. Happy Halloween!…

By Nsikan Akpan, Joshua Barajas

Russian billionaire and Stephen Hawking announce $100 million search for aliens

By Nsikan Akpan

Russian tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner funds the most ambitious hunt to date for alien life, thanks to a new $100 million project called the Breakthrough Initiatives.

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