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A robot serves a customer at a restaurant in northeast China in 2012

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Dining in the Future: Predictions for Restaurant Eating in 2040

Eateries may include more tech and fewer humans on staff

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Mysterious “Vampire Squirrel” Finally Caught on Camera

The newly discovered squirrel has the fluffiest tail of any animal, may also disembowel deer

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Here Are the Winners of Getty Images’ First-Ever Instagram Grant

The photographers come from Bangladesh, Brazil and Russia

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Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Just Hit a 500-Year Low

The last time California was this dry, European explorers hadn’t yet reached San Diego

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Colorado Once Lost Pikes Peak to Texas in a Bet

A friendly wager raised the stakes to a whole new elevation.

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Here’s What Would Happen if All the World’s Fossil Fuels Burned Up at the Same Time

Nice knowing you, Antarctica

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A One-of-a-Kind Museum Was Just Lost in California’s Wildfires

The JKL Museum of Telephony featured hundreds of old-fashioned phones

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Amsterdam Has a Museum for Microbes

Micropia is devoted to the world of the unseen

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Visit the Giant Galápagos Tortoises Using Google Street View

The 15-sided camera of the Street View Trekker followed migration routes for the giant reptiles

A leech found in Vietnam

New Research

These Scientists Survey Rainforest Diversity Using Leeches and the Blood They Suck

DNA from their host animals can persist in adult leeches for at least four months

A plate from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium

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Meet the 17th Century Female Entomologist Who Illustrated Butterfly Life Cycles

Maria Sibylla Merian’s work fought superstition and societal norms

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Meet the Bear Who Earned the Rank of Corporal in the Polish Army

He had a penchant for cigarettes, booze and arm wrestling

A mosaic of high-resolution images of Pluto shows the icy plane informally called Sputnik Planum.

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Detailed Pluto Photos Reveal Dunes, Melted Plains and More

“If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top — but that’s what is actually there.”

Tree-covered islands in Miyagi Prefecture, which has been affected by widespread flooding.

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Japan Is in the Midst of Catastrophic Flooding

The floods are the worst seen in over 60 years

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Here’s How a Crew Survived an 1813 Shipwreck

The Neva’s remaining crew managed to live an entire month in an Alaskan winter with just the wreckage of their ship

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Why Elon Musk's Idea to Nuke Mars Won't Happen

Terraforming the planet with thermonuclear weapons: Best idea ever or disaster waiting to happen?

President Barack Obama visits finalists of the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search

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Intel Drops Sponsorship of the Science Talent Search

The prestigious competition has been held every year since 1942

A rhinoceros in South Africa's Kruger National Park, where the Black Mambas anti-poaching task force protects animals.

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These Women Reduced Poaching on one South African Reserve by 76 Percent

The "Black Mambas" just received a prestigious award for their work on behalf of rhinos, lions and cheetahs

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Sleep Scientists Say School Days Should Start Later

For better learning, some researchers say school days should start at 10 AM.

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Why A Single Vial Of Antivenom Can Cost $14,000

It’s not because all antivenom is expensive to make.

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