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The exceptionally well-preserved ships offer new insight into ship-building history
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Billions of dollars worth of "gift returns" are actually stolen goods
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The latest categorization of solid precipitation types inspired a cool graphic
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The year saw a few prominent disasters, but 2014 was, unfortunately, nothing out of the ordinary
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Like humans, birds just don’t sing as well drunk as they do when sober
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The most searched for artists, according to one website, run the gamut from classic masters to Duck Stamp contest winners
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If the president adopts them, however, the seventh sons are spared from their werewolf fate
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One charge can carry the Tesla Roadster up to 400 miles
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Increasing your well being in the new year can also be good for the planet
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Mars may have an underground water reservoir
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Throw it in a loop, and listen to the music
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Stars aren't diamonds at all—they're giant balls of gas
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It's a sinister version of human's tendency towards right-handedness
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The first challenge is saying thank you for something you can’t use, but here’s some ideas about what to do next
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Echolocation acts as such a close a proxy for vision that it falls victim to the same shortcomings
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Called Tió de Nadal, the log is decorated with a smiling face and fed until Christmas, but that’s not the strangest part of the tradition
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The riddle of the uvula may not be solved yet, but it looks like we have some ideas
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So-called entoptic phenomena remind us that what we see isn’t always a clear view of the world around us
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As the planet cooled, it contracted and shut off the surface lava flows about 3.8 billion years ago
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