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Here’s How a Crew Survived an 1813 Shipwreck

The Neva’s remaining crew managed to live an entire month in an Alaskan winter with just the wreckage of their ship

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Why Elon Musk's Idea to Nuke Mars Won't Happen

Terraforming the planet with thermonuclear weapons: Best idea ever or disaster waiting to happen?

President Barack Obama visits finalists of the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search

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Intel Drops Sponsorship of the Science Talent Search

The prestigious competition has been held every year since 1942

A rhinoceros in South Africa's Kruger National Park, where the Black Mambas anti-poaching task force protects animals.

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These Women Reduced Poaching on one South African Reserve by 76 Percent

The "Black Mambas" just received a prestigious award for their work on behalf of rhinos, lions and cheetahs

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Sleep Scientists Say School Days Should Start Later

For better learning, some researchers say school days should start at 10 AM.

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Why A Single Vial Of Antivenom Can Cost $14,000

It’s not because all antivenom is expensive to make.

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Sweden Has a Hotel for Sourdough Starters

Boarding bread is the new doggy day care.

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NASA Has Specific Rules For Naming Its Spacecraft

From Project Mercury to Space Shuttle Atlantis.

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New Fossil Discovery May Change What We Know About Human Evolution

The ancient species Homo naledi had small brains and seems to have intentionally carried their dead into caves

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Invasive Ants Could Be Beaten Back With a Targeted Virus

The idea is sound, but work needs to be done to ensure the virus doesn’t take out other insects as well

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Liverpool, England Has a Mysterious Network of Tunnels

Historians know who built them, but they don’t know why

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A Californian Highway May Get A Cougar-Only Overpass

A proposed bridge could soon bring wildlife populations together.

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Whales Have Dialects. Could They Have Cultures Too?

Unique click patterns point to the possibility of differing cultures among groups of sperm whales

1,000 years ago, Native Americans in the Southwest likely traded for cacao beans from far-away parts of Mexico and South America.

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Early Americans Went to Great Lengths to Get Caffeine

Pottery shards reveal 1,000-year-old traces of caffeine in places where it wasn't readily available

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There Are About 600,000 Dahlias on These Van Gogh Themed Floats

The colorful floats can be covered in up to one million dahlias apiece.

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Quebec Might Become The New Napa Thanks To Climate Change

In a few years, Qubecois pinot noir might be among the best in the world

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When Seals Molt, They Leave Behind Mercury

Pollution collects at the top of the food chain.

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This Computer Can Track How Fashion Spreads From the Runway to the Street

Researchers created an algorithm to recognize and analyze fashion on the runway and in the street

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Invasive Rabbits Change the Soil so Drastically you Can See the Effects Decades Later

Remote French islands in the Indian Ocean have a bunny problem

A juvenile crocodile in a Cape York peninsula river, the region where researchers recently looked for wild rice species

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To Find New Rice Species, Scientists Head to Remote Tropical Swamps

A remote peninsula in northern Australia beckons a rice research expedition

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