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Yan'an, China is flattening some of the mountains surrounding the city, seen here in a photo from 2012

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China Is Tearing Down Mountains to Build Cities

Land creation projects are proceeding apace without scientific research to back them up

It's critical we cut carbon emissions, says UCLA study

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Here Are the Five Best Ways to Fight Climate Change, Ranked by Scientists

Given their "feasibility, cost-effectiveness, risk, public acceptance, governability and ethics," these are the best ways to fight global warming

Moo-ve over mosquitos, your next bug spray may be cow cologne

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This Cologne Makes Cows Smell Like Humans, So Mosquitos Bite Them Instead of Us

California company receives Gates Foundation grant to explore a unique kind of pest control

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Spiders Get Information From the Vibrations of Their Webs

Depending on the frequency, a vibrating thread of silk can tell a spider if it needs to repair its home or go collect a snared snack

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Statistics Say That Brazil Will Probably Win the World Cup

Analyzing players' transfer values to calculate a team's overall market value, however, predicts that Spain will win

No day is a day without running for streakers

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The Longest Running Streak on Record Is 16,447 Days

Jogging junkies give exercise records a run for their money

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Fire Hydrants Get a Face Lift

A new design for fire hydrants could make fighting fires a lot easier

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Fly With The Birds In Nepal. No, Really.

Parahawking is just another way you can get up close and personal with nature

Navajo Code Talkers during World War II.

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The Last Navajo Code Talker Has Died

Chester Nez played an instrumental role in World War II

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These 1861 Photos Helped Convince Abraham Lincoln to Preserve Yosemite for the Public

Stanford University celebrates the National Park's 150th anniversary with some retro photos

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Americans Are Serving Alpaca for Dinner

The llama-like animal is growing in popularity for meat eaters in the U.S.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Neutrons Was Auctioned Off This Week

The prize fetched more than Faulkner's Nobel, but less than Crick's

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Would Projected Windows Make a Cramped Micro Apartment More Comfortable?

Is virtual reality the solution to housing densification?

The newly discovered "mega-Earth" Kepler-10c dominates the foreground in this artist's conception. Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background. Both orbit a sunlike star. Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 18,000 miles, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. Therefore it is all solids, although it may possess a thin atmosphere shown here as wispy clouds.

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This Rocky Exoplanet is Really, Really Big—Too Big

Kepler-10c is a rocky planet that's too big to be a rocky planet

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In Wales, Traveling by Dragon Is Now an Option, According to Google Maps

You can also commute by carriage or Loch Ness monster, depending on your location in the U.K.

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The Universe Is Beautiful in This New Hubble Image

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image 2014 is stunning

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This Company Sold More Beer by Helping Waitresses Get Home Late at Night

Anthropology can have relevance for the business world—just ask this beer company

Military police during the ceremonial lowering of the Chinese flag in Tiananmen Square.

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Twenty-Five Years After the Tiananmen Square Massacre, China's Still Trying to Muffle Its Memory

Stories and photos preserve the memory of the massacre that is all but a mystery to many young Chinese

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The Fourth Case of Mad Cow Disease Ever Reported in the U.S. Was Just Confirmed

The victim likely picked up the disease while traveling abroad

These artifacts were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in 2011 and were recovered this April. but many looted artifacts leave the country, never to return.

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In Egypt, Antiquities Looters Use Bulldozers

Three years after the revolution, technology and diplomacy are being used to combat looters

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