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Aluminized suits are used to reflect heat at the Armed Forces Firefighting School. Chanute Field, Illinois, in 1977.

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NASA’s Starting a Fire in Space

How will flames react in microgravity?

Steamboat Willie, aka Mickey Mouse, one of the Disney animation cells protected from pollutants by a new artificial "nose"

New Research

A High-Tech "Nose" Will Protect Mickey Mouse and Simba During Their Visit to China

A new sensor detects tiny amounts of pollutants that can ruin artwork

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Heir to Punk Royalty Will Burn $7 Million Worth of Punk Memorabilia

Son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren says it’s to spite the Queen

Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland

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CERN Seeks International Artists For Full-Time Residency

The European Center for Nuclear Research is calling for art submissions for its annual award

William Heirens, aka The Lipstick Killer wrote this plea in lipstick on one of his victim's bedroom walls in 1946. It reads: For heavens sake catch me before I kill more/ I cannot control myself

New Research

CSI Sephora: New Technique Helps Identifiy Lipstick Brands From Crime Scenes

Researchers refine the way forensic technicians collect and analyze lipstick evidence

Some of the divers from Blue Water Recoveries excavating artifacts from the wreck of the Esmeralda

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Found: 500-Year-Old Portuguese Shipwreck From Famed Explorer's Fleet

A warship from the famous navigator Vasco da Gama’s fleet has been excavated in the waters off Al Hallaniyah island in Oman

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Facing a Biscuit Shortage, British Citizens Get an Emergency Shipment Flown in From Dubai

The shortage isn’t the only biscuit-related scandal to strike teatime recently

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler speaking at the 2015 TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

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Thanks to the FCC, You Might Soon Have More Control Over Your Personal Data

Regulators are taking on internet service providers over targeted ads

Maria Goeppert Mayer, co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on nuclear shell structures. She is just one of hundreds of women added to Wikipedia by the Wikiproject Women Scientists

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How a College Student Led the WikiProject Women Scientists

Emily Temple-Wood's Women Scientist project is writing female researchers back into the conversation

People planning to travel to high-elevation locations in Central and South America like Mexico City are breathing a sigh of relief.

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The CDC Says High Elevation Regions Are Safe From Zika

It's welcome news for anyone with travel plans

Say goodbye to the Louvre's iconic pyramid.

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This Summer, the Louvre’s Pyramid Will "Disappear"

A French street artist promises a tantalizing trick of the eye

A right whale spotted off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada in 2011.

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Hundreds of Right Whales Are Returning to Cape Cod

Decades have passed since the endangered species regularly frequented Cape Cod Bay

Blu and local activists erased 20 years' worth of his street art from Bologna, Italy.

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A Prominent Street Artist Just Destroyed All of His Works

Blu used a chisel and gray paint to make a point

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Muggles Are Selling the Chair in Which 'Harry Potter' Was Created

The decorated dining room chair J.K. Rowling used to write her iconic novels is going on sale

Women are still rare behind the camera.

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The National Film Board of Canada Will Give 50 Percent of Its Production Budget to Women

The agency thinks it can achieve full gender parity in just three years

An artist's rendering of the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter

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Mission to Find Life on Mars Blasts Off

The European Space Agency kicks off its ExoMars project to look for methane and other signs of life in the Martian atmosphere

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World War II Survivor Tips Off Geologists to Hidden Tunnels Beneath Naples

The forgotten tunnels were used as bomb shelters

A fresco uncovered in a tavern in Pompeii shows patrons playing a game. Similar scenes probably took place in a Roman tavern recently unearthed in Lattara, an ancient port city in southern France

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2,100-Year-Old Roman Tavern Unearthed, Empty Cups and All

The proposed ancient bar and grill in southern France could shed light on the spread of Roman culture

"Serra Gaucha," by Guy Laramée

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These Mountains Are Made of Books

An interdisciplinary artist creates landscapes out of encyclopedias

Walt Whitman spent much of the Civil War in hospitals, cheering up wounded soldiers and writing letters on their behalf.

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A Rare Walt Whitman Letter Was Found in the National Archives

The poet wrote the letter on behalf of a dying soldier

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