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After extracting the dormant yeast from cooking vessels, an amateur gastroegyptologist used ancient grains to recreate an Old Kingdom loaf
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The microscopic tardigrades were part of a lunar library sent aboard the Beresheet lander that crashed last April
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Discovered in New Zealand, the bird has been dubbed ‘Squawkzilla’
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The image appeared in <i>Vogue</i>’s 2018 September issue and was shot by the photographer Tyler Mitchell
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The city’s arts commission is expected to choose one of three proposed designs this week
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The country's agricultural landscape is now 48 times more toxic to insects than it was 25 years ago
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The EU's weather satellites show the global average was 0.072 higher than July 2016, the previous record holder
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'She changed the whole cartography of black writing,' says Kinshasha Holman Conwill of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Half of the country’s unique avian taxa have gone extinct since humans came to the island
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Contrary to popular belief, carnivorous cats and canines probably didn't hunt the same limited pool of prey
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The works were slated to be part of the French author's first collection of poems and stories, but were cut for unknown reasons
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She and her dance partner Paul Wing appeared together as stars of stage and screen, but they were not immune to prejudicial attitudes
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A study of fleshy-footed shearwater babies found plastic increased their cholesterol, impacted their kidneys and disrupted normal growth
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The fossil, held for decades at the University of Witwatersrand, was previously thought to belong to the most common dinosaur species in South Africa
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The amount of ice collectively lost last Wednesday and Thursday would be enough to cover Florida in almost five inches of water
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Local authorities are introducing security measures in response to vandalism, obscene graffiti
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In 1990, archaeologists discovered a corpse that had been disturbed during the Great New England Vampire Panic
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Over eight weeks, 'Joyous Dystopia' is posting digital works by eight different artists
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In 'Six,' the Tudor queens get a chance to share their side of the story
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They suspect that the man killed by federal agents in 1934 was not, in fact, the outlaw, but a Dillinger expert dismisses the theory as 'total nonsense'
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