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Fruit vendor in São Paulo, Brazil

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Why Humans Love Things That Fit into Other Things

There's comfort in unexpected order

A solar flare erupts from the Sun in 2012.

New Research

When Will the Next Solar Superflare Hit Earth?

The year 2209 just got a lot scarier

Lightning strikes near the U.S. Capitol building

New Research

Lightning Strikes Can Change Rocks' Atomic Structure

New research suggests that rock crystals melt under the intense force and heat of lightning

New Research

Cadavers Are Teaching Doctors to Be More Empathetic

By getting to know the person behind the cadaver, new doctors are honing the skills they'll use on living patients

New Research

A New Cooking Oil Can Be Reused 80 Times

Could it make for better French fries and disrupt a worldwide black market at the same time?

New Research

The Color White Has a Dark Past

From race to wealth to cleanliness, the color's connotations have a long history

The motor convoy departed D.C. on July 7, 1919.

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How a Hellish Road Trip Revolutionized American Highways

Quicksand, food rationing, and embarrassment may have prompted Ike to push for a better highway system

Loren P. Woods, curator of fish at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1968. But could he handle a horse?

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Would You Pass This 1910 Museum Curator Test?

Don't know how to steer a canoe? Instant fail

New Research

Modern Life Could Be Making Dementia More Common

Dementia is affecting people more and earlier than ever before — but is pollution the culprit?

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The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

New Research

Dinosaurs May Have Lived (and Died) Among Ancient Daisies

<i>Triceratops</i> loves me, <i>Triceratops</i> loves me not...

Dense smoke rises as fire engines arrive at the blast site after the deadly explosions in Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China.

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It's Strangely Difficult to Measure Big Explosions

But is it time for a makeover?

A "kissing bug," the insect whose bite can transmit the parasite that causes Chagas disease

New Research

Why Infectious Tropical Diseases Are Returning to America

Climate, geography and economy are just a few risk factors

Female saiga at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Russia in 2009

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What Killed Over 134,000 Endangered Antelopes?

Experts are closer to an answer

A painting of a bird from the 1633 Manual of Calligraphy and Painting.

Cool Finds

The World's Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Was Too Fragile to Read...Until Now

The 1633 book has now been digitized

Cool Finds

Why Coffee Makes Some People Poop

It's not the caffeine

Engineers at Cambridge University created a robot that could build and improve on other robots, in an artificial form of natural selection.

New Research

Watch a Robot Evolve

It's the mother of all robots

Screenshot from the short "Chad Gadya"

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This Animation Is Made of Embroidery

It took a year and a half to create a short film using "embroidermation"

Acropora species, like those pictured above in Malaysia, seem to be targeted by a disease that destroys coral tissue.

New Research

A Mysterious Disease Is Killing Corals

Researchers still haven't cracked the mystery of "white syndrome"

The bust of Nefertiti at the Altes Museum in Berlin

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Could a Door in King Tut's Tomb Lead to Nefertiti?

There could be more in Tutanhkamun's burial chamber than meets the eye

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