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City Birds Are Evolving To Be More Flexible and Assertive Than Their Country Cousins

Animals are adapting to life in the big city

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Picasso, Matisse and Monet Paintings Stolen From Dutch Museum

Seven paintings from some of Western art's greatest masters went missing from a the Kunsthal Museum in Holland this morning

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To Increase Salmon Populations, Company Dumped 110 Tons of Iron Into the Pacific Ocean

Adding iron to the ocean can make life bloom, but scientists are uneasy about the potential unknown consequences

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Turning Iron Into Platinum: Easier—And More Useful—Than Turning Lead Into Gold

Chemical trickery causes iron to act like platinum

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Today We Celebrate a Woman Who Saw the Future of Computers

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day celebrating the life of Lady Lovelace, a seventeenth century countess who published a paper that might be the first computer program ever devised

Every Place in North Dakota Captured in 9,308 Photographs

In a series of 9,308 photographs Andrew Filer documented every place in North Dakota. Literally

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Should All Students Be Forced to Learn Computer Science?

Kids these days are computer wizzes, but they don't actually know how computers work.

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Yesterday’s Google Doodle Celebrates Little Nemo, Takes You Back to Childhood Fantasy Land

Yesterday's Google Doodle celebrated the 107th anniversary of Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic strip by Winsor McCay that hit the presses for nine years

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To Avoid Poison Ivy Rashes, Make the Plant’s Sap Glow

What happens when a geologist who's immune to the poison ivy, marries a chemist who's allergic?

Digital Laser Scans of Stonehenge Reveal Ancient Graffiti

The first complete 3D laser scan of Stonehenge's prehistoric stone circle revealed ancient graffiti and alignment with the winter and summer solstice

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The Scientific Reason Lena Dunham Got a $3.5 Million Book Advance

Last week, Random House offered a whopping $3.5 million for Lena Dunham's first book, Not That Kind of Girl - but why?

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Nobel Economists Looked at Finding The Best Deals When You Can’t Use Money

Two Americans explain how to best bring groups together

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Three Views of Felix Baumgartner’s Record-Breaking Skydive From the Stratosphere

At years of preparation and untold expense, Felix Baumgartner successfully leapt from 23.5 miles

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100-Million-Year-Old Spider Caught in the Act of Pouncing on Its Prey

A rare fossil captured a 100-million-year-old moment in time, a spider attacking an insect trapped in its web

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The Man Who Deserved ’66 Percent of the Credit’ for Cloning Dolly Has Died

Earlier this week Keith Campbell, one of the scientists responsible for Dolly, died at the age of 58

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This Helmet Knows When You’ve Crashed And Calls for Help

A new helmet, registering the impact of a mini-van's passenger door on your body, has sent out a signal for medical assistance

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Sounding Smart with SmartNews: Your Cheat Sheet to the Nobels

Here, in Twitter-sized bites, are descriptions of the work that won the Nobel this week

More Chocolate, More Nobels

Chocolate consumption statistically relates to Nobel Prizes

An iceberg floats off the coast of Greenland.

Melting Greenland Ice Has Consequences

Melting Greenland ice could affect ocean circulation patterns, and further spur global warming

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This is a Map of Every War Ever

The Battle of Jericho is the first entry in a massive project that sees the dates, locations, and brief descriptions for thousands of human conflicts overlaid on a scrollable, zoom-able map

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