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Go Ahead, Wise Guy: Sarcasm Makes People More Creative

It’s science, duh

Jack Kevorkian stands in front of one of his paintings.

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Listen to Dr. Kevorkian's Jazz-Funk Album

The man called "Dr. Death" created a complex and surprising body of artistic work

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Mystery Solved: Why Puddles Don't Go On Forever

The picture of proper puddle behavior had a few missing pieces

Times Square, New York City

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Times Square’s Iconic Billboards May Be Illegal

Bright lights, big city, breaking the law

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In Mexico, a Gritty Neighborhood Has Become a 65,000-Square-Foot Mural

A hillside in Pachuca gets a psychedelic makeover

Hawaii, three foot long egg mass, the product of a species of open ocean squid.

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This Huge, Gooey Blob Could Be a Clutch of Squid Eggs

The blob was the size of a car...and completely baffling to a group of divers

The first known photograph of Drosera magnifica.

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No One Knew This Plant Existed Until It Was Posted to Facebook

What's the emoji for "scientific discovery"?

A mother rhino breastfeeding her baby

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Why Mammals Have a Monopoly On Milk

It all started with an egg

Pluto may be home to a hazy atmosphere, nitrogen glaciers and possibly even an underground ocean.

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There's Flowing Ice on Pluto

And maybe an underground ocean

Cerveza Zulia is one of Venezuela's most popular beers and its oldest brewery.

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Venezuela Is About to Run Out of Beer

Strict import laws could make Venezuela's taps dry up in just a few weeks

A helicopter being used to fight wildfire

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Drones Are Getting in the Way of Firefighters Combating Wilderness Blazes

Firefighters need to take to the air to fight fires, but sometimes that air is just too crowded

A swarm of mayflies in Ontario

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Officials Had to Use A Snowplow to Reclaim a Bridge in Iowa Swarmed by Mayflies

An unusually large emergence of aquatic insects created temporarily hazardous conditions

Dating human remains (such as this 800-year old skeleton found in Bulgaria) often relies on radiocarbon dating

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Climate Change Might Break Carbon Dating

Fossil fuel emissions mess with the ratio of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere

Hair ice found in Skåne County, Sweden.

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Here’s How a Strange Phenomenon Called ‘Hair Ice’ Forms on Dead Trees

The white ice filaments look a lot like cotton candy

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Who Were the First People to Eat Chickens?

A find in Israel shows evidence of chicken consumption from as early as 400 B.C.E.

A stone etching on the grave of crewmember Lt. John Irving depicts the dire conditions that the Franklin expedition faced when they reached the Canadian Arctic.

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Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism

New bone analysis suggests crew resorted to eating flesh, then marrow

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This Fungus Eats the Butts off Cicadas

It’s totally not a big deal, though

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This Video of Lightning in Slow Motion is Strangely Entrancing

Hypnotize yourself with lightning at 2,000 frames per second

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These Drones Hunt Whale Snot

Snotbots will make mucus collection less stressful for whales

With carrot liqueur, one distillery takes a cue from Bugs Bunny

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Carrot Liqueur Could Be Coming to a Cocktail Near You

What’s Next?! Kale?!

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