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For the past two years, NASA's planet-hunting Kepler satellite has consistently challenged our view of just how many planets there are out there.
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Americans who eat shark fin soup may be unknowingly chowing down on globally endangered species, a new study found
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Wildlife photographer Guek Hock Ping discovered a new species. Only, he didn't know it
Super high speed camera catches a fire breather in action.
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The Sierra Club presented a fictional subway map of the U.S. National Parks and is challenging green commuters to see how many stops they can hit
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The doctor who embalmed Abraham Lincoln changed the way Americans think about funerals.
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While athletes were setting world records, designers and journalists were building graphics and games to track them. Here are the best ones.
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New research finds that "living in the moment" is probably impossible thanks to the hard-wired ways our minds process thinking and decision-making.
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Scientists are unlocking the secrets behind tiny adhesive structures in gecko toes in the hopes of designing new technologies
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Between midnight and dawn on any night this coming weekend (for those in the US, times vary for others), look up, turn to the northeast, and admire the annual show of the Perseid meteor shower.
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Flooding fueled by heavy rains brought down a 36 meter long stretch of the Great Wall of China
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Children and hobbyists rejoice - today is Lego's 80th birthday
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This year's hurricane season has started with a whimper, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects it to go out with a bang
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For the residents of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the fire that has been burning beneath their town for fifty years is part of what makes it home.
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Programmers use a few lines of code to crack the Google Doodle hurdling puzzle. The rest of us still press the arrow keys frantically.
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Shannon Eastin, the first woman to ever referee an NFL game, got her stripes last night.
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Saluting Hitler and saluting the Olympics look basically identical, which is why you never see anybody saluting the Olympics anymore.
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Tim De Chant's Per Square Mile answers through infographics: How much land would 7 billion people need to live like the people of these countries?
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