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The light from a Naval missile test off California

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A Real Nuclear Apocalypse Would Be More Beautiful Than the World of 'Fallout 4'

It would also be much, much more devastating

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These Videos Will Change the Way You Think About Travel Photography Forever

A new technique lets you zoom through the world without leaving your desk

Mr. Snuffleupagus makes an appearance on Good Morning America in 2014

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A Brief History of Sesame Street’s Snuffleupagus Identity Crisis

A running joke got canned in response to concern that kids wouldn’t feel safe telling adults hard truths

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Eased Sanctions Could Mean a Comeback for Iranian Caviar

Does this mean tough times for the endangered sturgeon?

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The Most Popular Class at Yale Is From Harvard

Can a computer science course that teaches students how to think help Yale beat Harvard in tomorrow's game?

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A Gothic Chapel Is Transformed Into a Spectacular Sky

Staring at the ceiling has never been so inspiring

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The NIH Lets Its Last Research Chimps Go

These 50 remaining chimpanzees are headed to sanctuaries to enjoy retirement

A modified human skull from the early 6th century

New Research

Parents Have Been Reshaping Their Kids’ Skulls for 45,000 Years

A new find in Patagonia adds to the list of possible reasons for such extreme cranial modification

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A Brief History of Plaid

From highlanders to hipsters

Category winner, Behavior: A school of tropical clupeid fish swim in sync, keeping a healthy distance from a teenage black-tip reef shark in the Rasdhoo Atoll, Republic of Maldives. Though the sharks cruise placidly for hours without so much as a glance at the fish, they strike suddenly, gobbling up a mouthful of fish.

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A Tadpole’s Perspective and More "Life Through a Lens" Images

Ogle the images from winners of the Royal Society's photography contest

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Five Things to Know About the Genetically Engineered Salmon Approved by the FDA

Sustainable seafood or "Frankenfish"?

Screenshot from video "Phantom 3 get kidnapped by two eagles"

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A Drone Encounters Two Eagles, and the Birds Win

A pair of arial predators snatched a photographer's drone from the skies of Austria

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This Artist Makes Traditional Carpets That Look Like They Were hit by a Software Bug

Faig Ahmed’s Azerbaijani carpets twist and swirl like a bad Photoshop job

Julia Child stands in the kitchen of her Massachusetts home. You can own another one of her kitchens—the one in her Provence vacation home—for just $885,000.

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You Could Own One of Julia Child’s Kitchens

Perks include a vacation home in Provence

The Pleiades Star Cluster

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Look to the Skies This Month for the Pleiades Star Cluster

The Seven Sisters will shine bright from dusk till dawn for the rest of November

On the left are one type of Myxozoan-- spores of Kudoa iwatai--microorganisms recently reclassified as a member of the same group that includes jellyfish like the Aurelia aurita (moon jelly) on the right.

New Research

This Parasite Is Really a Micro-Jellyfish

Somewhere along its evolution this jellyfish-turned-parasite got really strange

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Gamers Raise Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars a Year by Playing the Worst Video Game Ever Made

“Desert Bus” lets you undertake an eight-hour-long digital road trip in real time

An adult Rhodnius prolixus (kissing bug) on the right and large nymph on the left

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Five Things to Know about Kissing Bugs and Chagas Disease

The disease-causing parasite spread by biting bugs has spread beyond the tropical world

New Research

This Is How Bats Can Land Upside Down

Bats spin like ice skaters to stick their landing

Humans enjoying the Curcubita fruits they helped save, after probably contributing to their wild cousins' demise

New Research

Domestication Saved the Pumpkin (and Squash)

The pumpkin in that holiday pie wouldn't be here today without domestication

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