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Like the selfie, the emoji has faced its fair share of derision. But as more and more people use the little icons they're finding more acceptance
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Whether you love or hate candy corn, it's probably worth knowing how it's made and where it came from
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These drones are striking against a different kind of enemy: apple scab
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Some users speculate that polymers could have been to blame, though others pointed to nitrogen, one of the main components of urine
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The condition is almost always accompanied by tactile hallucinations of crawling sensations and visual hallucinations of the non-existent insects
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Archeologists in London just turned up a pristine 1,800-year old Roman statue of an eagle devouring a serpent
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Around 60 million years ago, our primate ancestors figured out that the sight of a snake meant trouble
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A big data project to connect all the people
Beware, your brain can force you to spend a lot more time than you might think watching these
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Stock up now, the Sriracha factory is facing shutdown
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The researchers found that the people with synesthesia seem to go into more of a trance during sex than those without
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Since they're already going to the flowers anyway, why not give them some pesticides to carry?
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Given math's applicability to everything in our world and beyond, it's not so far fetched to think that a theory of everything really does exist
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These rocks can not only spy on you, they can communicate with each other and report back to base
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New research shows that animals trapped in the tar would linger for months on end
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The boats are fashioned entirely by hand using simple tools, and traditionally are carved from magongo tree wood
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Here's how Bishop John Wilkins got all the animals to fit on Noah's Ark
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Two months before he died, Heaney wrote "In a Field" at the request of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy
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This might seem like an obvious question, but it turns out that no one has looked into it until now
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Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like
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