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When the Great French Wine Blight hit in the mid 1800s, the culprit turned out to be a pest from the New World that would forever alter wine production
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Today marks five decades since cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first human to walk in space
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An experimental setup shows that chimps will travel farther to get a more preferred reward
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Put down the remote—new research links cooking shows, higher BMI
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Researchers use laser scanners to identify a Roman military camp that may have initiated the settlement of the modern Italian city of Trieste
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A tiny creature makes shrimp more likely to eat their own
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A new study investigates the historical factors leading up to the emergence of pork prohibition
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Lincoln was a congress member at the time but not the only one charging too much for travel
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Scientists studying how beetles steer themselves in flight gather research that may have implications far beyond understanding bug biology
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Over 2,000 birds have been felled by fast-moving avian cholera
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A new theory poses that the prehistoric structure could have been something like an “ancient Mecca on stilts”
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Vietnam’s Son Doong cave is a magnificent not-so-microcosm
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A newly published scientific review attempts to “get to the bottom” of how animals acquired what some might call the most indecent part of the body
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The cocoa tree is very sensitive to disease and pests, so someone checks every plant bound for international trade
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When the story of one man’s childhood pet raccoon became a hit in 1970s Japan, it heralded a biological invasion still troubling the country today
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Canada braces itself for the biggest morel mushroom harvest in world history
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Before food coloring, St. Patrick’s Day’s most festive brew got its hue from a different kind of dye
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The strange organisms are remarkably good at mapping the most efficient route from place to place—and that's exactly what roads do
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