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Creating Drought-Tolerant Plants By Hacking Their Natural Responses

Which new technique will help plants survive with less water?

Hikers in the North Cascade mountains of Washington, on the Pacific Crest Trail

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The Pacific Crest Trail Is So Popular It Needs a New Permit System

Only 50 people per day will be allowed to start thru-hikes from the southern terminus

An Enigma deciphering machine from the German navy

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Notes From Alan Turing’s Code-Breaking Days Found in Roof Insulation

The rare code-breaking documents include sheets used to calculate settings for the machine working on "Enigma"

One LEGO master is proposing this tiny version of the HMS Beagle.

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A Great Idea: Create an HMS Beagle in LEGO Form

Vote to turn this tiny version of a famous ship into a LEGO kit available for all to enjoy

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Private Space Investments Will Reach $10 Billion This Year

Make way for money—investors are bullish on space

The USSR is alive and well in a bunker in Lithuania.

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This Fake Gulag Will Let You Pretend the Soviets Are Still in Power

Barking dogs, harsh guards and brutal imprisonment in a bunker where the USSR never fell

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North America’s Trees Create Some of the World's Hottest Forest Fires

What makes certain forest fires especially destructive?

Illustration of the Elysia chlorotica by Mary Peart from "Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts" by Augustus A. Gould, W. G. Binney

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A Green Sea Slug Steals Power From Algae

The discovery makes this a true plant-animal hybrid

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home

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Thomas Jefferson Conducted Early Smallpox Vaccine Trials

When an English doctor discovered a safer kind of immunity, someone had to spread the word to America

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Wisconsin is Too Warm for a 66-Foot Ice Tower to Survive

Weather conditions likely played a big factor in the crashing demise of a giant ice sculpture intended to last through the winter

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1 in 3 Would Rather Die Early Than Take a Daily Pill

New research shows a third of people would trade years of their life to avoid taking daily meds

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Why One Nonprofit Wants You to Sell Them Your Poop

A qualified candidate could make thousands of dollars a year selling their waste to an organization preparing fecal transplants for the ill

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Cockroaches Have Personalities, Too

Feel guilty the next time you crush a cockroach

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The Great Barrier Reef Is Doing So Badly, Scientist Are Testing Genetic Modification to Help It Survive

As the health of the Great Barrier Reef declines, scientists are hoping “assisted evolution” might keep its coral alive

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Scientists Identify a “DNA Clock” That May Help Predict Mortality

New studies on changes to DNA that occur over a lifetime offer insight into an individual’s likelihood of early death

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The Taj Mahal Gardens Have a Special Relationship to the Solstice

On the day the sun climbs the highest in the sky, careful alignments within the gardens and buildings of the beautiful mausoleum appear

Harper Lee in 2007, accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Harper Lee is Releasing A Sequel to “To Kill A Mockingbird” in July

The novel was written before her prize-winning book and tells the story of Scout as an adult, returned to her hometown from New York

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These Birds Take Turns So No One Gets Too Tired Flying in Formation

“Reciprocal altruism” in a migrating flock of birds means that the more exhausting lead position is deliberately and equally shared

Being able to control "clock neurons" could help with combatting jet lag and fatigue.

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Scientists Discover “Reset” Button for Circadian Rhythm

Could a simple reboot turn exhaustion into a thing of the past?

Zsanett Szirmay draws on traditional Hungarian embroidery and cross-stitch patterns in "Soundweaving."

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This Music Is Made of Embroidery

Here’s what happens when you feed historical cross-stitch through a music box

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