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Didn’t think you had much in common with a long-necked dinosaur? A thermometer might say otherwise. The body temperature of enormous sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus that ruled the Jurassic period was similar to those of most birds — and even akin to mammals like us, claims a new article …

Skydiving is dangerous — but not nearly as dangerous as skydiving from a plane in outer space. That can kill you. The temperature can freeze your body, and the lack of air pressure can boil your blood. Nonetheless, an Austrian daredevil named Felix Baumgartner plans to take the 23-mile plunge …

Like a baseball player who bats lefty and righty, Big Science sways politically with the issue at hand — often backing the party with the fattest wallet. Researching our changing environment, building a new spaceship, using stem cells to find the cure for serious diseases — these scientific endeavors require …