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Science on a Shoestring: How Cuba’s Researchers Survived the Embargo

Will normalized U.S.-Cuban relations make science easier in the once-isolated country?

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Scientists Flew a Jet Plane Into a Thunderstorm to Study Antimatter

They got a little too close and saw something unexpected

This is Odaraia alata, an arthropod resembling a submarine from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.

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How the Animal got its Head

Ancient brain fossils show how early animals evolved heads.

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Here's How Video Game Designers Give Voices to Imaginary Creatures

All they need are digital vocal cords, voice box and mouth

European Bison (Bison bonasus) at Prioksko-Terrasnyy Reserve in Russia

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Europe Once Had Bison, and now They're Making a Comeback

Just like their American cousins, the bison needed help after their numbers were decimated by habitat loss and hunting

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A Recall Has Led to a Black Market for Blue Bell Ice Cream

Ice cream fans are rushing to cash in on a cult favorite

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Scientists Are Stopping Malaria With Viagra

Viagra can help boost the spleen’s ability to filter out infected blood cells

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Malaysia Airlines Search Team Finds Sunken Ship Instead

Still no sign of the missing Flight 370.

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Stop Calling it Bird Flu: World Health Organization Calls for More Care in Naming Diseases

New naming guidelines issued to avoid stigmatizing communities.

Rhodiola rosea

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Alaska is Growing a Plant the Soviet Military Used in Secret Experiments

Golden root, or Rhodiola rosea, is also popular in Siberian folk medicine

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How Do You Figure out Where the Very Center of the United States Is?

Three different places have laid claim to the title since 1901.

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A Third of Animal Mummies Contain no Animals at All

Researchers discover ancient Egyptians peddled fake animal mummies.

An archeologist from Inrap excavates a mass grave below a supermarket in Paris

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Scientists Investigate a Medieval Mass Grave Under a French Supermarket

Renovation work uncovered hundreds of individuals, perhaps all killed by disease at the same time

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Happy Birthday to Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth's Inner Core

Pioneering geologist used earthquakes to unravel the mystory of the Earth’s core

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In the Future, We Might Take Sunscreen in Pill Form

A discovery in some fish suggests that sunblocking chemicals could be ingested rather than slathered on

The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial museum.

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This Company is Turning Holocaust Survivor Interviews into Holograms

Researchers are using new technology to keep Holocaust testimonies alive

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In Three Years the Freedom Tower Will no Longer be America's Tallest Building

New York's Nordstrom Tower will be 1,795 feet tall

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Revealing the Deep Secrets of Deepwater Waves

Scientists hope their study of 1,600-foot underwater waves can help improve climate modeling

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How Snow Keeps the World’s Most Powerful Space Telescope Squeaky Clean

CO2 snowflakes are being tested for use with Hubble’s successor

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France

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Computers Are Learning About Art Faster than Art Historians

An algorithm took just a few months to draw connections between artists that scholars have been working on for years

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