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Matabele ant carries a wounded comrade home

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This Ant Species Rescues Wounded Comrades on the Battlefield

Though it may be counterintuitive, a new study suggests saving the injured benefits the colony more than leaving them for dead

This 1898 photograph shows a young black boy holding hands with a young white girl during the Easter egg roll. The contraption on her head is an Easter bonnet.

The Curious History of the White House Easter Egg Roll

Thousands of families enter the lottery each year to take part in this White House tradition

Aromatic New Museum Celebrates the Art and History of Perfume

From the ancient Egyptians to Elizabeth Taylor, the Grand Musée du Parfum tells the story of fragrance

The "Black Sunday" dust storm was 1,000 miles long and lasted for hours. It blacked out the sky, killed animals, and even blinded a man.

This 1000-Mile Long Storm Showed the Horror of Life in the Dust Bowl

In the American history of extreme weather events, ‘Black Sunday’ sticks out

These washing machines represent dignity for homeless people in Rome.

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This Free Laundromat Has a Famous Sponsor: the Pope

Rome’s homeless people will be able to do their laundry on the Vatican’s dime

Illustration of the water plumes coming off of Enceledus

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NASA Detects Microbe-Friendly Food Spouting From Saturn's Moon Enceladus

The Cassini spacecraft has detected the ingredients for life in sprays from the icy world

Earth sparkles by night.

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Black Marble Photo Shows Off Earth's Darker Side

The composite shot could one day help scientists make the most of the night sky

This dress is made with the power of cow manure.

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Fashion Made From Cow Poo Wins Innovation Award

Mestic looks to manure to produce bioplastic, paper and fashion-forward textiles

Gentoo penguin takes on a slope near its nesting colony.

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A Penguin Colony's Rise and Fall, Recorded in Poop

A nearby volcano has decimated the gentoo colony on Ardley Island three times

An artist's rendition of Maven as it spies on Mars' atmosphere.

New Research

Mars Has Metal in Its Atmosphere

Metallic ions have a permanent presence in the red planet’s atmosphere—kind of like on Earth

Many of the records from MKUltra have been destroyed, but 8,000 pages of records were discovered in 1977.

What We Know About the CIA's Midcentury Mind-Control Project

Project MKUltra began on this day in 1953 and continued for years

Adults slumber beneath a blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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Slumber With Skeletons at This New York Museum

Whales, mummies and adults are invited to a special sleepover

Progress, meet cemetery.

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Digital Tombstone Brings the Dead Back to Life

Death is eternal—but cemeteries are changing with the times

Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed the Rocky Mountains from his vantage point in low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station.

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NASA Puts Earth Up for Adoption

Pockmarks, wrinkles, and all

"Wing," "coin" and "toil" are all words you can play in any Scrabble game. "Biten," however, is not legal.

The Tournament Scrabble Dictionary Contains More Than A Hundred Slurs

One woman first raised the issue of the Scrabble dictionary containing offensive words in the 1990s

Scientists Capture Beautiful, Explosive Collision of Young Stars

The high-resolution images could hold clues about the early stages of star formation

This snapshot shows Jupiter's swirling, banded atmosphere and signature vortices.

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“Great Cold Spot” Discovered on Jupiter

The ancient storm was hiding in plain sight

This Artificial Neural Network Generates Absurd Pickup Lines

But the technology probably won't be able to land you a date anytime soon

The Mark Strand Theater in 1914. See more images of the luxurious movie palaces at the Library of Congress website.

Movie Palaces Let Everyday Americans Be Royalty

They were an important part of the studio system that flourished until the late 1940s

Sergei Korolev was technically still a political prisoner when he began working on the Soviet rocket program.

The First Manned Space Flight Was the Rocket Designer’s Victory as Much as Yuri Gagarin’s

Sergei Korolev designed the entire Soviet rocket program. But nobody knew his name until after he died

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