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  Magma Rise Flooded Earth With O2?

  Oxygen-breathing life exists on Earth today because of changes in the planet's magma 2.5 billion years ago, a new study says.

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  Evolutionary Flop?

  New 3-D models suggest that what's been seen as one of Earth's first land walkers was actually more of a flopper.

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  Photos: New Deep-Sea Vents Found

  Crawling with tube worms and crabs, the hydrothermal vents are the first found in the Gulf of California, scientists report.

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  Another Everest "Traffic Jam"?

  Just days after four people died on Everest during a crowded climb, a similar "traffic jam" scenario could play out this weekend, experts say.

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  Can Sugar Make You Stupid?

  Bingeing on fructose stunted memory and learning in rats, prompting "high concern" over unhealthy humans.

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  Carbon Capture Faces a Hazy Future

  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects around the world are hitting a wall in the face of high costs and a lack of climate policy.

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  SpaceX Successfully Launches

  A Falcon 9 rocket sent an unmanned capsule into orbit on its way to rendezvous with the International Space Station.

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  Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Pigment

  Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.

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  Killer Mice Gobbling Up Rare Birds

  Oversize house mice are consuming millions of endangered Atlantic petrels on the bird's only known breeding area, a new study confirms.

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  New Solar Eclipse Pictures

  See stunning images of the annular eclipse that created a "ring of fire" enjoyed by millions of sky-watchers in Asia and the U.S. West.