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Humans may have raided wild honeybees' nests during the Stone Age -- this hive in a hollow log hive from Cévennes (France) reveals the details of the circular comb architecture ancient humans would have discovered.

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Our Ancient Ancestors Probably Loved Honey Too

Residue scraped from pottery shows humans used bee products as long as 8,500 years ago

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Mars' Gravity Is Slowly Shredding Its Moon Phobos

Telltale grooves on the moon's surface are an early sign of Phobos' grim fate

Wall painting from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

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New Scans Show There Might Be a Hidden Room in King Tut’s Tomb

More evidence shows that there could still be secrets in Tutankhamun's resting place

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A Lost Story by Edith Wharton Has Been Discovered in Yale's Library

"The Field of Honor" is about a failed marriage during World War I

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Manhattan Project Sites to Be Opened to the Public

Manhattan Project Historical Park will preserve three sites from the beginning of the Atomic Age

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During the Cold War, the Military Had Plans to Wage War in Space

The U.S. Army's Future Weapons Office proposed theoretical ways to defend non-existant lunar bases

Amedeo Modigliani, "Nu Couché," 1917

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This Is the Second-Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold At Auction

Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché drew a stunning $170.4 million

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Now Available: The Ultimate Old-Timey Playlist

Listen to digitized recordings of wax cylinders, an obsolete technology that revives turn-of-the-century culture

Can you hear me now? Good.

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This Ear Was Made With Vincent Van Gogh's DNA

What secrets have been whispered into this creepy, living copy of the most famous ear in art history?

Researcher Julien Louys holds the jaw bone of an ancient giant rat species discovered in East Timor (left) and the same bone from a modern rat (right)

New Research

Fossils Show Ancient Rats Were the Size of a Small Dog

And our ancient ancestors likely ate them

A photo of the Hydrus before the ship sank in November, 1913

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Divers Discover 102-Year-Old Shipwreck in Lake Huron

The Hydrus and her crew were lost during the Great Storm of 1913

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So Long Shamu Show

In the face of criticism, SeaWorld is retiring its controversial killer whale show

This image shows a Fuxianhuia protensa specimen from the Chenjiang fossil beds in southwest China. The ancient arthropod was just under 5 inches in length.

New Research

How to Fossilize a Brain

A new study shows that brains can can fossilize like bones

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The Mystery of a Titanic Telegram

Did the Titanic's owners know about its collision with an iceberg?

A hellish landscape drawing newly attributed to Hieronymus Bosch

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New Hieronymus Bosch Drawing Found in Private Art Collection

The hellish landscape is "an exceptionally important addition" to Bosch's grim work

2,600 undelivered letters, 600 of them unopened, were found inside this postmaster's trunk.

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This Trunk Stuffed With 17th-Century Letters Is a Historian’s Dream

Recipients never read these letters, but their loss is history’s gain

It's getting too hot in here

New Research

Could Climate Change Mean Less Sex and Fewer Babies?

Even if it does, perhaps that's not a bad thing

The lush forests in Hawaii may have shaped its language

New Research

How Language Evolved from Climate and Terrain

Try shouting words into the wind, what sounds make it through?

Hedy Lamarr, mother of modern wifi.

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Happy Birthday Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood Star Turned Scientist

The beauty had brains—after all, she invented the tech behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS

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Whisky Grains and Coffee Grounds Could Help Clean up Nuclear Waste

Distilleries could soon be helping save the environment as they bottle up their next batch of brown

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