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New ‘super-Jupiter’ breaks the mold on where planets can exist
Until now, no planet had been found orbiting a star more than three times the sun's mass.
Footprints in Spain show meat-eating dinosaurs were fast and furious
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With lab help, whiskey distillers skip oak barrel-aging. But how does it taste?
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