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Pat Yourself on the Back, America: The U.S. Is Not Freaking Out About Ebola (For the Most Part)

Poll numbers show most Americans aren't succumbing to the fear over Ebola

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The European Space Agency Has Made the Weirdest Short Film

The ESA's advertising Rosetta with a very unusual sci-fi short

Did this piece of debris come from Amelia Earhart's plane? Some think so; others disagree.

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Aircraft Hunters Think They’ve Found a Scrap of Amelia Earhart’s Plane

This isn't the first time a seemingly game-changing piece of evidence about Earhart's disappearance has arisen, however

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Rainbows Don’t Include Purple Light, So Why Do They Sometimes Seem To?

Supernumerary rings, supernumerary rings, supernummrings

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Artists In Search of Inspiration Can Now Find Their Muse On a Cargo Ship

Container ships now join Amtrak trains, dune shacks and remote islands in the Arctic circle as sights dedicated to artistic pursuit

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A Couple’s First Two Kids Make Them Briefly Happier; the Third Not So Much

Older couples get the most joy from their new addition to the family, teens the least

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This Headline Is Trying to Manipulate You, And It's Working

Bad headlines stick with you, even if you read the story

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Google Is Working on a Pill That Can Figure Out What Ails You

Microscopic particles will spy on the cells of your body and look for any disease, including cancer

An Espanola Galapagos giant tortoise under an arboreal prickly pear cactus. The cactus is a vital part of the tortoise's diet, but the surrounding woody plants - a leftover problem caused by goats - prevent the cactuses from regrowing.

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Giant Tortoises Have Made a Comeback From 15 to 1,000

Española giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Galapagos National Park and are breeding on their own

In London, Sherlock Holmes is happy to stop for a quick chat.

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You’ll Soon Be Able to Talk to London And Manchester’s Statues

Just scan a tag near the statues with your cell, and they'll call you with a quick first-person history lesson

Moai on the slopes of the Rano Raraku volcano of Easter Island

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Ancient Easter Islanders Likely Sailed Back And Forth to South America

The 4,600-mile roundtrip couldn't have been easy—even for people who had already migrated from Polynesia in wooden outrigger canoes

The now non-existent Antares rocket sits on the launch pad at Wallops Flight Facility on October 26, 2014.

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The Antares Rocket Explosion Wasn't Orbital Sciences' First Big Malfunction

Orbital Sciences has lost some of NASA's gear before, because going to space is really, really hard

Surface oil burning during the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon spill

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Found: Millions of Gallons of Missing Oil From Deepwater Horizon

Oil that sank to the seafloor left a ring the size of Rhode Island

The skeleton was discovered near the American Falls dam and reservoir in Idaho.

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What Appears to Be a Complete Mammoth Skeleton Was Discovered in an Idaho Ditch

A nearby reservoir has just covered the fossil in water, however, postponing the excavation

Cat in his basket at Vienna’s first cat cafe

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America's Finally Getting Its First Permanent Cat Cafe

Cappuccino and a Siamese, please

An earlier launch of one of Orbital Science's Antares rockets from Wollops, April 21, 2013.

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Reminder: Keep Your Boat AWAY From NASA's Rocket Launches

A mission to the ISS was cancelled because of a wayward boat

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The Pope Would Like You to Accept Evolution and the Big Bang

The Roman Catholic Church is pro-evolution and Big Bang, but with a twist

Lava flow from the Kilauea volcano.

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Lava Is Poised to Consume Some Homes in Hawaii

Lava is creeping across the Big Island's Puna district at a rate of about 10 to 15 yards per hour

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We're Terrible at Distinguishing Real And Fake Schools of Fish

You can test your fish school savviness in a free online game created by scientists

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When Becoming a Man Means Sticking Your Hand Into a Glove of Ants

Young men must subject themselves to a ritual involving bullet ant-filled gloves not once but 20 times

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