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The projected tsunami propagation for last night's Chile earthquake.

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It Is Now Technically Possible to Stop an Earthquake

Scientists have devised a way to reflect seismic waves

Some of the expressions the researchers identified, from top left to bottom right: happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised, disgusted, happily surprised, happily disgusted, sadly fearful, sadly angry.

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"Happy Disgust" Is a Newly Recognized Human Facial Expression

Basic emotions like happy, sad or angry blend in interesting ways on the landscape of the human face

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Heat Increases the Risk of Early-Term Delivery

As temperatures rise, delivery rooms see a peak in early-term babies

Ring around the Social Security number.

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Children Have to Worry About Identity Theft, Too

The rate of identity theft is five times higher among children than among adults

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Language Discrimination Goes Beyond Just Grammar

Even when candidates are all equally qualified, employers pick native speakers over those born abroad

Tie Dye Egg by Lindsey Bull from last year's Big Egg Hunt in London

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The Hunt For Giant Easter Eggs Across New York City Is On

Not just any eggs—260 egg-shaped sculptures that range from ornate to modern

Edward Burne-Jones, The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, painted probably using Mummy Brown.

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Ground Up Mummies Were Once an Ingredient in Paint

In 1964, the manufacturer who made Mummy Brown reportedly ran out of mummies to grind up

"An illustration showing various ways that a water well (center) may become infected by typhoid fever bacteria."

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Science Rewrites the Death of America’s Shortest-Serving President

William Henry Harrison may have died of typhoid fever

Charles Rowell: The celebrated pedestrian, c. 1879.

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America’s Favorite Sport Used to Be… Competitive Walking

Pedestrianism was popular in the late 19th century

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If Men Get Paid to Play College Sports, Title IX Says Women Do, Too

A labor board ruled that football players at Northwestern University are “employees” and have the right to form unions

Colorful archaea grow in in ponds.

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How a Single Act of Evolution Nearly Wiped Out All Life on Earth

A single gene transfer event may have caused the Great Dying

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Google Play Kicks Porn of All Types Out of Its Store

The store has never allowed straight-up pornography, but it’s now getting even stricter about what's allowed

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The Prescription for Rheumatism Used to Be to Sit Inside a Rotting Whale for 30 Hours

The treatment's efficacy, however, remains questionable

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This Hospital Door Handle Doubles As a Hand Sanitizer

This way, infections don't spread as easily—and no one has to remember to Purel their hands

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A Virus—Possibly Spread by Pig Feed—Has Killed Millions of Piglets

The virus poses no threat to humans, but is deadly to piglets

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This Mummy Had an Angel Tattooed on Her Leg

A 1,300 year old Egyptian mummy was found to have the tattoo of an angel on her inner thigh

Most of us are more like the frog, than the prince.

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No One Wants to Admit They're Ugly, Which Makes It Hard to Fight Beauty Bias

Nobody wants to join the ugly lobby, but that might be what we need to battle "lookism"

Lehman Cave

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Even Caves Need a Spring Cleaning

Volunteers removed two tons of detritus from Lehman Cave in Great Basin National Park

The English city of Bath was one of the top 10 tourist destinations in the 1800's

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Here’s How Tourism Worked in the 1860s

One of the only constants: Paris is popular.

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Japan Has Been Ordered to Stop Whaling Near Antarctica

The United Nations called foul on Japan's claim that whaling is done for scientific purposes

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