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Jaw-Dropping Clip Captures Astronaut Jack Fischer's Amazing View of Earth?

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Madison Dapcevich
Sep 24, 2023 The video was said to have shown the astronaut’s view as he conducted a spacewalk outside the In ...
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Remarkable Pic Shows 7,000-Year-Old Preserved Human Corpse?

Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Sep 15, 2023 A social media post claimed that the corpse's skin, hair and clothing were still intact.
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Pic Shows Humanlike Bones in Gray Whale's Front Fins?

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Aleksandra Wrona
Sep 7, 2023 "Them whales evolving into humanoids," one social media user commented on the viral pic.
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Does a Urine-Revealing Pool Chemical Exist?

Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Dec 14, 2000 Kids have long been warned about a chemical in swimming pools that reveals the presence of urine.
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Explosive Claims: The Reality Behind Viral Video of Object Striking the Moon

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Alex Kasprak
Aug 30, 2023 According to NASA, lunar meteors don't require oxygen or combustion to make themselves visible.
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A 'Question Mark' Formation Was Documented in Space?

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Aleksandra Wrona
Aug 8, 2023 Scientists speculated it was one or more galaxies.
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Will Dangerous Cosmic Rays Pass Close to Earth ‘Tonight’?

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Alex Kasprak
May 24, 2017 This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
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Do Humans Share 50% of Their DNA with Bananas?

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Alex Kasprak
Jul 4, 2023 "Does that make eating a banana 50% cannibalism?"
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Are Silent Fireworks Real?

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Dan Evon
Jul 3, 2018 "Silent fireworks" shows are a thing, but they don't employ a newly-invented form of noise-suppr ...
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Did NASA Issue Warning About Pending 'Internet Apocalypse'?

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Alex Kasprak
Jun 30, 2023 Developments in our understanding of the sun's convection systems evidently go more viral when p ...
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Can a Fetus Send Its Own Stem Cells to Repair Its Mother’s Damaged Organs?

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Alex Kasprak
Dec 7, 2016 Genetically distinct fetal cells can remain in a mother’s body for decades after birth and can e ...
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Did Quaker Oats Fund MIT Research That Fed Radioactive Cereal to Kids?

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Alex Kasprak
Jun 17, 2023 The experimental subjects, from the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts, had been de ...
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Does This Photo Show Skin Punctured by a Needle?

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Madison Dapcevich
Apr 12, 2021 Maybe there are some things we aren't supposed to see.
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Has Vaccine mRNA Entered the Food Supply via GMO Plants or Vaccinated Livestock?

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Alex Kasprak
May 3, 2023 Despite viral videos asserting these processes are well underway, such claims lack a factual bas ...
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Is This 'Walking' Protein What Happiness Really Looks Like?

Is This 'Walking' Protein What Happiness Really Looks Like?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Jul 26, 2017 A computer-generated visualization of a kinesin protein has been circulating on the internet for ...
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Is Australia Wider than the Earth's Moon?

Written by:
Damakant Jayshi
Apr 2, 2023 Yes and no. It depends on what yardstick we use.
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Egg Balancing on the Equinox

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David Mikkelson
Mar 17, 1999 It is not true that a special property of the equinox allows eggs (or brooms) to be balanced on ...
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That Asteroid-Moon Collision Video? It’s Fake.

That Asteroid-Moon Collision Video? It’s Fake.

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Madison Dapcevich
Jul 26, 2022 But that’s not to say that the moon hasn’t seen its fair share of asteroid impacts.
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No, It Is Not Possible to Predict an Earthquake

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Feb 9, 2023 A Dutch “researcher” nonetheless claimed to have predicted an earthquake in Turkey in early 2023.
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Are Scientists Attempting to 'Reincarnate' the Woolly Mammoth By 2027?

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Alex Kasprak
Feb 1, 2023 They claim the genetically created creature will "walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sou ...
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