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This Chip Will Self Destruct (If DARPA Can Get It To)

Should a United States computer fall into the wrong hands, the army wants to be able to disintegrate that chip and its information on command

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Here’s Where Species Loss From Climate Change Will Probably Be Most Extreme

Impacts to species around the world due to climate change are uncertain, but here's a data-backed idea of how things will play out

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If You Think Climbing a Tree Will Save You From a Crocodile…

Crocodiles can climb trees

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Which Sci-Fi Armor Is the Military's Fancy New Battle Suit Actually Like?

They're calling it the "Iron Man" suit, but we think there's a closer analogy

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Sri Lanka's First Expressway Is Making the Country Feel Tiny

The E01 gives this island nation its first taste of the open road

Artist's rendition of a bedroom at the Poseidon Mystery Island underwater resort

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You Can Now Go on Vacation Under the Sea

Your next romantic getaway could be in a submarine or underwater hotels

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Send Your Valentine a Secret Message in the Language of Flowers, Updated for Modern Lovers

Certain flowers had well-understood meanings back in Victorian times, and now a London startup is trying to revive floriography for current times

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Programmers Across the Country Are Self-Organizing to Protest NSA Surveillance

"The Day We Fight Back" campaign seeks to reform the NSA

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This is the Oldest Star We’ve Ever Seen

SM0313 was part of the second wave of star formation

Now in can, bottle and pod form.

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You Could Soon Make Coca-Cola in the Comfort of Your Own Home

How a Keurig Coke pack will work is still under wraps, but Coca-Cola is taking aim at the home-made soda market

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Take a Lovely Two-Minute Tour of Antarctica From the Air

A brief helicopter trip around Italy's Mario Zucchelli Research Station

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Here's Proof the Bible’s Tales Were Tweaked

Biblical figures were riding around on camels thousands of years before camels were domesticated

Shirley Temple with William Lyon Mackenzie King, then Prime Minister of Canada, in 1944.

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After Retiring From Film in 1950, Shirley Temple Was the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana And Czechoslovakia

What did Shirley Temple get up to in the 63 years after her retirement from Hollywood?

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Archaeologists Uncover New Zealand's Oldest School

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a 200-year-old school in northern New Zealand

Ready for work!

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Mathematician Calculates 177,147 Ways to Tie a Tie

"I have tried 10 or 20 of them, and most of them to be quite honest look kind of awkward,” he says

Aerial view of the damaged site at Dawlish taken from the Network Rail helicopter

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Flooding in the UK Causing Travel Nightmares

Last week, the seawall holding up part of a key railway line went down

Happisburgh, a stretch of southeastern British coast that's one of the country's fastest eroding spots.

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The Oldest Human Footprints Ever Discovered Outside of Africa Have Already Been Washed Away

Casts and computer images are all that's of footprints made 900,000 years ago on the British coast

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Americans Are More Into BDSM Than The Rest of the World

Not only is BDSM far more common than you might think, it’s also far less of a red-flag when it comes to health and psychology

The mushroom cloud from the atmospheric detonation of the 11 megaton Castle Romeo nuclear bomb.

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For 25 Years, U.S. Special Forces Carried Miniature Nukes on Their Backs

The B-54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition was a nuclear bomb the size of a backpack

ISEE-3 undergoing testing at the Goddard Space Flight Center, November 6, 1976.

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This Satellite Just Returned From Circling the Sun, But NASA’s Lost the Ability to Talk to It

The style of transmitters that would let NASA talk to the spacecraft were taken out of commission

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