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These Meals Are Made of Paper

Stop-motion spaghetti? Yes, please

Interior of the Crystal Palace peep show, 1851

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This Museum's Giant Collection of Paper Peepshows Offers a Pinhole into the Past

The art pieces were created during the 19th and earth 20th centuries to celebrate coronations, world events and illustrate children's stories

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Research Reveals How and Why Sunflowers Turn Their Golden Heads

A new study shows sunflowers have an internal clock and face east to keep bees and other insects happy

A newly promoted group of petty officers stand in formation in Yokosuka, Japan. The blue working uniforms they are wearing will start to be phased out this October.

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Navy Bids Goodbye to “Blueberry” Uniform

Aquaflage is <i>so</i> 2010

Remains discovered in the village of Lajia, allowing researchers to date the massive earthquake and flood on the Yellow River

New Research

Does a Massive Flood Confirm China's Creation Myth?

Evidence shows a cataclysmic flood occurred along the Yellow River 3,200 years ago

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Look Up! The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Going to Be a Doozy This Year

The number of shooting stars could double this year

Winnie the Pooh has got new stitches, a fluffier butt and a renewed spot in the New York Public Library.

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Original Pooh Bear Gets Makeover, Returns to New York Public Library

Winnie and his friends are clean, fluffy and filled with stories

Excavations of a Dark Ages palace on the Tintagel Peninsula in Cornwall

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A Palace Was Unearthed Where Legend Places King Arthur's Birthplace

Archaeologists at Tintagel uncover walls and artifacts from a Dark Ages complex likely used by local kings

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An Insect Could Make Ash Baseball Bats a Thing of the Past

The invasive emerald ash borer is threatening the forests where Rawlings and Louisville Sluggers come from, putting the bats in jeopardy

In NASA's new "Mars Rover" game, players drive a rover through rough Martian terrain, challenging themselves to navigate and balance the rover.

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Take a Spin Around Mars in NASA’s New Rover Game

Tour the Red Planet without the risk of a multi-million dollar crash

"Portrait of a Woman" being scanned by the synchrotron.

New Research

Scientists Uncover a “Hidden” Portrait by Edgar Degas

A powerful X-ray unveiled one of the painter’s rough drafts

The viewing pod slides up and down the tower, which has been acknowledged as world's most slender by Guinness World Records.

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New Observation Tower Is World's Thinnest

Brighton's West Pier comes back to life...as a crazy vertical viewing tower

Rising drought. Surging seas. Spiking temperatures. 2015 was just another year in a long pattern of Earth's changing climate.

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World’s Climate Hit Extremes, Shattered Multiple Records in 2015

From rising temperatures and ocean levels to record greenhouse gas levels, 2015 was a rough year for planet Earth

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Thieves Are Making Off With Millions of Dollars in Stolen Nuts

It's a hard case to crack

The ancient carving after it was vandalized by well-intentioned youth.

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One of the Earliest Images of Skiing Was Destroyed by Youths Trying to “Improve It”

The petroglyph was made 5,000 years ago

It may not have been love at first sight, but America is finally developing a crush on bottled water.

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Sorry, Soda: The U.S. Is Just Not That Into You

Americans will buy more bottled water than soda for the first time ever in 2016

A reconstruction from the 3,700-year-old remains of Ava, a woman unearthed in the Scottish Highlands

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Meet Ava, a Bronze Age Woman From the Scottish Highlands

A forensic artist has recreated the face of a woman alive 3,700 years ago

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EU Releases Its First Invasive Species Blacklist

Gray squirrels, raccoons and crayfish were among the prohibited species

An artist's concept of Moon Express's MX-1 Micro Lander, which may head to the moon as soon as next year.

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The First Private Lunar Landing Was Just Approved

Moon Express will head to Earth’s nearest neighbor in 2017

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Diaries of Holocaust Architect Heinrich Himmler Discovered in Russia

The man who designed the Nazi concentration camps switched easily between recording domestic life and mass murder

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