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Every year, 25 million pounds of plastic beads made by Chinese factory workers get dumped on the streets of New Orleans
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The 29 artworks on display capture the wonder in nature, engineering and discoveries
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The journey of the Kirtland’s warbler is discovered thanks to a combination of the latest tiny technology and centuries-old solar location methods
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The “Strawberries With Sugar” outbreak is just one example of mass hysteria, which goes back centuries
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A cheetah mother caring for her cubs stumbles across an opportunity too good to pass up: a herd of springbok, grazing casually nearby
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Over thousands of years, native people played a strong role in molding the ecology of this vast wilderness
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The world-renowned physicist was never one to just stick to the science
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Male seahorses are the ones who carry children and give birth. And when they do, they can produce up to 2,000 babies at one time
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Astronomer Maria Cunitz might not be such an anomaly, were other women given the same educational opportunities
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Our iron emissions from coal and steel may be fuelling ocean life, and trapping carbon in the process
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The biggest threat humans pose to other worlds is what we don’t know—or what we think we know, but don’t
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NASA’s Orion will combine vintage tech with massive advances in computing power and electronics we've made since 1972
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Sophisticated microscopes, satellites and other instruments can create stunning images in experts’ hands
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These monkeys do whatever it takes to pass on their genes, including killing others’ offspring
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Newly discovered 38,000-year-old cave art predates the French post-Impressionist art form
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Tourists flock to this coastal Alaskan town to photograph the vulnerable icons—raising hairy ethical questions
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Small as they are, bumblebee brains are surprisingly capable of mastering novel, complex tasks
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Far from being silent remnants, Neanderthal genes play a profound role in how modern human genes are expressed
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We still don’t know why our minds seem so determined to exit the present moment, but researchers have a few ideas
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In Yellowstone, elk calves are left unprotected by their herd and are the easiest prey for wolves to catch. Luckily, the newborns have no scent
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