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Cockatoos Learn to Use Tools by Watching Each Other

With a teacher, Goffin cockatoo learn to use new tools more quickly

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The Keeling Curve Gets a Much-Needed Boost from Google's Schmidt

The long-running carbon dioxide monitoring program got a $500,000 grant from the Schmidts

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Case Solved on Jack the Ripper? Not So Fast

An author and a scientist claim to have proven the identity of the notorious 19th century killer, but others say the evidence is lacking

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Why Environmentalists Should Keep Quiet About Geoengineering

If it seems like there's a technological fix, people lose interest in helping

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High-tech Chopsticks Developed To Combat Food Safety Issues In China

Could utensils be a way to keep consumers safe?

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Approximately a Third of Americans Have Been the Victim of Sexual Violence

The CDC's latest rape and sexual violence statistics are just as disturbing as ever

Columbian Mammoth skeleton recovered from the LaBrea Tar Pits on display at the Page Museum in Los Angeles' Hancock Park

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Rare, Red Mammoth Hair Found on Californian Artichoke Farm

Columbian mammoths roamed Western North America thousands of years ago, and now we have a better idea of what they looked like

Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

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The World Has a Whopping 117 Million Lakes—For Now

A new survey catalogs the world's (steadily disappearing) lakes

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Once Mexico Had a Wealth of Corn; Now It's Left With a Genetically Boring Monocrop

This lack of diversity does not bode well for food sustainability and economics in light of climate change

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500 Years' Worth of Book Illustrations Have Just Been Liberated From Print

The internet's about to get a wealth of illustrations from more than two million books

Runners pass by a vineyard in France during the 2008 Marathon du Medoc

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In the Marathon du Medoc, Run 26.2 Miles—While Stopping to Drink Wine Along the Way

Like running? Like wine? Why not combine the two?

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Turns Out We Live in the Laniakea Galactic Supercluster

Add another line to your celestial address: Astronomers just found out we live in the Laniakea Galactic Supercluster

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“Unschooled” Kids Do Just Fine in College

Children used to self-directed learning and intellectual freedom can handle the strictures of college

Artist's rendering of Dreadnoughtus schrani

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Meet Dreadnought, Largest Dinosaur In The World

Dreadnought is the largest dinosaur in the world to be scientifically described

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Home-Cooked Meals Are a Burden on Women

Cash- and time-strapped moms often feel pressured to cook meals for unappreciative kids and men

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Lego Is the Biggest Toy Company in the World

Lego overtook Mattel this year to become the world's most-profitable toy company

An artist's interpretation of a mission to an Asteroid

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Contribute to an Asteroid Time Capsule

NASA wants to know what your predictions are for the future of Solar System exploration

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Nine Different Households, Surrounded by a Week's Worth Garbage

Photographer Gregg Segal wanted to highlight the problems of waste, pollution and overconsumption

Pyramid of Djoser

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Restoration Of Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid May Be Harming it

Efforts to save the Pyramid of Djoser could be making things worse

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More Evidence That Arctic Warming Is Behind the Weak Polar Vortex

Scientists lay out how melting sea ice may destabilize the Arctic atmospheric circulation

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