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90 Percent of Seabirds Have Eaten Plastic

And plastic pollution will threaten even more birds as production grows

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One Japanese Company Makes Half Of The World’s Zippers

How YKK came to dominate pants around the world.

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Here’s How Victorians “Photoshopped” Photos

Early photographers used pencils to touch up photographic plates — and the results look pretty freaky

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Google’s Driverless Car Got Confused By A Cyclist

It just wants to protect soft, perishable humans.

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Comedy Group Wants To Build a Wall To Keep Burners out of the Bay Area

The ban would apply to people armed with glowsticks and art cars alike.

An 1885 illustration shows bodies being thrown into a pit during the Great Plague of 1655. Now, new research is turning this image on its head.

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See How the Plague Swept Through London

New research shows that during mass burials, bodies were given more respect than previously thought

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Legendary Nazi Gold Train Might Exist After All

Polish culture minister is “99 percent sure” the train has been found

A Bloody served in a bar, loaded with goodies and with a beer chaser.

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The History of the Bloody Mary Meat Straw

The straw is one potential upgrade to drink known for its penchant for carrying a little extra protein, among other things

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Pigs Aren't Quite as Domesticated as People Once Thought

Researchers partially unravel the complexity of domesticated swine genetics

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Scientists Invented Ice Cream That Doesn’t Melt as Fast

It involves a protein that some bacteria use as a kind of protectant coating

This Japanese toilet takes flushing to another level.

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A Toilet Museum is Opening in Japan

It’s a love story to the lavatory

Visitors get a load of a blooming corpse flower in Basel, Switzerland in 2013. A similar flower failed to launch in Chicago this weekend.

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Chicago’s Corpse Flower Is Kind of a Disappointment

After failing to bloom as planned, horticulturists had to force "Spike" open

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Denali, Ongtupqa, and Other Native American Names for Landmarks

Mount McKinley was recently renamed Denali, but it's not the only one with a Native American name

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U.S. Court Says A Chicken Sandwich Can’t Be Copyrighted

Man claims intellectual property theft for putting chicken on a bun.

Egyptian blue on a fragment from Thebes, Egypt from around 1350 B.C. showing Nebamun hunting in the marshes

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How Glistening Egyptian Blue Pigment Was Forgotten then Lost

It may be the oldest artificial pigment

Animas River flowing through Santa Rita Park a week after the Gold King Mine spill in Colorado

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The American West is Full of Old Mines Threatening to Pollute Waterways

Lessons can be learned from the recent spill in the Animas River

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Once Again, Thousands of Walruses Have Been Forced Ashore in Alaska

When the animals can’t find sea ice to rest on, they haul themselves ashore in crowded masses

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These Century-Old Stone "Tsunami Stones" Dot Japan’s Coastline

"Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

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Some Sexually Transmitted Microbes Might Be Good for You

There’s a whole lot of bacteria and viruses that pass from person to person, using any means they can find

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Marine Biologists Find Rare Nautilus For The First Time In 30 Years

The “Crusty Nautilus” was believed to have gone extinct.

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