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For healthy and happy space travelers, food scientists must make meals compact, nutritious and long-lasting.

How Do Scientists Build the Best Diet for Astronauts?

Rio de Janeiro, December 8, 2009. Singer Taylor Swift during her show at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - shutterstock 758842915

The beginning of April always generates a slew of research papers from scientists who should know better. Here is this year's round up.

The Science of Taylor Swift and Other Improbable Stories 

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March 14 is Pi Day — and it's much more than an excuse to eat pie. Here's the significance of the number 3.14 and how it originated.

Pi Day: The History of the Math-Centric Holiday and the Special Number It Celebrates

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It depends on how deep you look into the DNA, according to new research.

Identical Twins: Just How Genetically Alike Are They?

A statue of Galileo Galilei in Florence. (Credit: CIlia Baksheev/Shutterstock)

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Contenders for the title stretch back through the Enlightenment and the Renaissance to Ancient Greece.

Who Was the First Scientist?

An artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft near the sun. The probe — which has swooped closer to the Sun's surface than any previous spacecraft — is providing new data on solar activity and helping scientists forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth. (Credit: NASA)

Parker Solar Probe

If you could stand on the Sun and look out at Earth and the other planets, what would it look like?

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