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Researchers now know details of how the infamous earthquake of 1700 struck the West Coast
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Facebook teamed up with a Pixar illustrator and a psychologist to make the most emotive emoticons it could muster
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Previously, researchers hoping to learn about metamorphosis had to dissect the chrysalis, which killed the developing insect inside
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Though the researchers didn't include cats in the study, they suspect that felines, too, would experience a runner's high
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According to a recent study the representation of women is at its lowest in 5 years
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Climate change isn't just making the North Pole warmer, it's actually changing where the North Pole is located
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What do you do with a spare world-class satellite?
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Even the harsh Canadian winter can't kill these hardy bacteria
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A warm, dry winter has set the stage for another bad year of forest fires in the western U.S.
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Over the past 50 years, the snow line has receded nearly 600 feet up the mountain and glaciers in the region have shrunk by 13 percent
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In Nottingham, England, you can now get a college degree studying Heavy Metal
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This high frequency microwave weapon makes you feel like your skin is burning, but leaves no scars
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The new contraption detected giant roundworm eggs 81 percent of the time and roundworm eggs 54 percent of the time in village samples in Tanzania
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Currently, the science of detecting mass graves is hit or miss, though the remains of thousands of missing persons may be stashed in clandestine graves
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One in three students in the UK wears lucky underwear. And while you might laugh their habits off, there's a reason that those rituals might actually work
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The construction company building the road appears to have extracted crushed rocks from the pyramid to use as road fill
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Angelina Jolie's choice to remove breasts is part of a larger trend - but doctors aren't sure why it's more popular now than ever, or whether it should be
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Back in the ninth century, the S-word referred to excrement in a matter-of-fact, not a vulgar, way
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What is the evolutionary purpose of laughter? Are we the only species that laughs?
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Complex life is possible without excessive amounts of non-coding DNA
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