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NASA Just Found 1,284 New Planets
(Photo: NASA/Public Domain)NASA said Tuesday that they had discovered 1,284 new planets, over 100 of which are said to be Earth-sized. NASA used its Kepler observatory, which orbits the Earth on a...
View ArticleThis Egyptian Coffin Held the Smallest Known Mummified Fetus
Youngest-ever mummified foetus from Ancient Egypt discovered in tiny coffin. More here: https://t.co/saIvKnWHe4pic.twitter.com/5KySzV99zv— Rembrandt's Room (@RembrandtsRoom) May 11, 2016New scans...
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When the Air Force Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on South Carolina
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.If you ever find yourself traveling on Crater Road in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, be sure and carve out a few moments for a marker...
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Exploring Moscow’s Majestic Metro Stations
Komsomolskaya Station on the Koltsevaya line, 1952. (Photo: © Alexander Popov)May 12, 2016 marks the first "Moscow Metro Marathon," in which competitors must try to visit all 199 of the transportation...
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How Novels Came to Be Written in the Voice of Coins, Stuffed Animals and...
A 19th-century typewriter. (Photo: Pixabay)The most popular novel of 1760 England was an episodic narrative of the observations of a mind-reading coin imbued with the very spirit of gold itself.Largely...
View ArticleFound: Mysterious, Empty 'Ghost' Ship
In Robertsport, Liberia, a Panama-flagged ship recently washed up on the shore. The last time the Tamaya 1 had reported its coordinates, it was heading towards Dakar, Senegal, on Africa’s west coast....
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How Counting Horses and Reading Dogs Convinced Us Animals Could Think
Hans selecting answers with his nose. (Photo: Public Domain)Inky the octopus, who made a crafty escape from his tank in New Zealand a few months ago, joined a continuous stream of...
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Anyone Can Now Buy One of the World's Most Expensive Teas
Care for a cuppa? (Photo: kurund jalmi/CC BY 2.0)More like Darjeeling UNlimited. For the first time in over a century and a half, India’s famed, but exclusively monetized Darjeeling tea will be...
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See A Restored Mail-Order Sears Home From 1916
Reddit user RealHotSauceBoss's grandfather's North Dakota home, in 1916 and 2016. (Photo: Imgur)Next time you need some Ikea inspiration, take a look at the family in this photo. See that house they're...
View ArticleWatch Octopus Babies Burst into the World
Have you ever stopped to think about how octopuses are born? Do they have eight legs off the bat, or do they start with one? Is it more like cows (one big baby at a time) or like frogs (zillions of...
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Our Sewers Speak Volumes. These Robots Are Ready to Listen
Mario, a sewage sampler robot descending into the underworld. (Photo: MIT Senseable City Lab)When you think of the Super Mario Brothers, you might think of little mustachioed men shimmying up and down...
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The 'Lord of the Rings' Volcano Is Now Active
Mount Ruapehu, in New Zealand, which was used in the Lord of the Rings films. (Photo: Mirko Thiessen/CC BY-SA 3.0)There's "heightened unrest" at Mount Doom, er, Mount Ruapehu, the real-life backdrop...
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Everything You Know About Mole Sauce Is A Lie
Different mole sauces on display in Oaxaca. (Photo: David Boté Estrada/CC BY-SA 2.0)If you were to set up a word association game in which you tell Americans the word mole, the Mexican sauce, it’s...
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Psychic Snail Sex Couldn't Replace the Telegraph, But One Frenchman Sure Tried
Jacques Toussaint Benoît believed that snails, once mated, had a lifelong telepathic bond. (Photo: Pierre Watson/shutterstock.com)Seldom has the race to create a secure and instantaneous means of...
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Scientists Just Found Cells They Thought Could Never Exist
Two mitochondria. (Photo: Louisa Howard/Public Domain)On Thursday, scientists made a surprise announcement. From a gut microbe in a chinchilla owned by one of the scientists, they had discovered some...
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Scientists Say Egypt is in Denial Over Hidden Rooms in King Tut's Tomb
A bust of Queen Nefertiti. (Photo: Philip Pikart/CC BY-SA 3.0)Scientists said earlier this year that they had found some secret rooms in Tutankhamen's tomb. What could they contain? A popular theory...
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Meet the Fish That Made America Great
Consider the shad. (Image: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank/Public domain)Of all the species that were once absurdly abundant in American landscape—the bison, the passenger pigeon—the American shad are...
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The Hidden Beauty That Only Satellites Can See
Extraordinary colors in Libya's sand dunes, as captured by Sentinel-2A. (Photo: ESA)Right now, high above us, are a suite of satellites called Sentinels. Operated by the European Space Agency, they are...
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Your Summer Guide to Spotting Rare, Wild Blimps
A U.S. Navy blimp cruises over the Atlantic in 1943. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-USE6- D-008260)Once upon a time, not even a century ago, the American sky was filled with airships. The Navy sent...
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