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Australia's largest wildfire is the result of a weapons test gone awry
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Sandwiches, kale, lettuce, asparagus and spinach all benefit from a bit of bacon, according to aggregate recipe ratings
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It turns out that bears can eat 40,000 moths a day
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Officials blamed the influx of smog on three factors—windless conditions, bonfires of harvested corn stalks and a fired-up municipal heating system
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Scientists say that without these skeletons, they'll never fully understand how dinosaurs evolved
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Do your best Felix Baumgartner impersonation with this balloon trip to the stratosphere
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Before photo and video, illustrations were the best way for scientists to share what they saw
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This life history pattern likely evolved as a way for the female whales to ensure their genetic mark in the world does indeed get passed on
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If things don't change, one official fears that Japan "might eventually perish into extinction"
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Not all your tissue ages at the same rate, according to new research on systems to identify and age human cells
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Musk bought the Lotus Espirit car from the movie The Spy Who Loved Me for $866,000 at auction
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Back when America was small, Australia was "New Holland," and big chunks of the world seemingly didn't exist
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Careful, there's homework
Part clam, part muppet, this is a great fish
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Developers in New York City may have just uncovered a tavern visited by George Washington, and written about by Washington Irving
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There are pumpkin spice air fresheners, M&Ms, tortialla chips, whiskey, candles and beer
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The violin of Wallace Hartley, a member of the on-board orchestra, is up for auction
The Matterhorn is one of the highest peaks in the alps, and claimed the lives of 500 men before the first was able to reach the top
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In the past few years the price of water rose 23%, and water utilities are taking on crushing debt to keep up
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If this new research holds, we're about to lose a whole pile of evolutionary ancestors
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