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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
Researchers have encoded a book, including pictures and an accompanying computer program, in DNA
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The Sun is the most perfectly round natural object known in the universe
Nikola Tesla invented a device that uses lightning to play music. No, seriously
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The number of people in slavery is estimated to be upwards of 27 million — 2x the number of slaves taken from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade
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Just because the six-wheeled nuclear-powered behemoth has yet to begin cruising doesn't mean there aren't loads of interesting things to read and hear
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Scientists are accepting DNA samples from cryptozoologists who claim to have evidence of the Yeti
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Every Martian morning, the Curiosity rover gets a wakeup song
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"There is no unique, tangible, singular, definitive Constitution," says information scientist Joe Janes
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The latest research on the "Do babies have an innate moral compass?" question indicates that no, they do not
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The "ocean health index" was just released, and overall the world got a giant "D"
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The King is dead. Long live the King
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You, for one, won't have to welcome your robot overlords too soon
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Filmmaker Storm Theunissen tired to find out just how much she could get for the various pieces of her
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Rather than just ask the crowd to help answer math problems or scientific ponderings, why not challenge the crowd to design the questions themselves?
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A sudden shift seen off the coast of Svalbard demonstrates how the world's ecosystems will be reformed by persistent climate change
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While jobs declined in England between 2008 to 2010, researchers found that suicides increased
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Archaeologists are excavating hundreds of skeletons from the boggy swamps, and the remains belong to men who all sacrificed around the time of Christ
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The U.S. Census Bureau announced yesterday that our population has hit one of math's favorite landmarks
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