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A window speckled with little holes will let the air through, but not the sound
The morphing of a butterfly into a caterpillar has fascinated humans since we discovered the curious strategy
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Cut off for maybe as much as 15 million years, Antarctica's Lake Vostok seems to be full of life
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The first recruit to the Women in the Air Force (known as WAF) was Esther Blake who enlisted on the first day it was even possible for women to do so
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Who knows, perhaps if HAL had been a lady, we'd all be scared of disembodied female voices and Siri would be a man's voice
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Something as simple as catching a falling ruler triggers a complex process behind the scenes
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The beaches of Qingdao, China, are covered in algae, but marine life may be faring worse than the swimmers
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The Diagon Alley set from Harry Potter has been added to Google Street View
It has to be pushed to start and caught when he stops to not fall over but this strange fish-shaped bike might be able to beat the speed record
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Though Engelbart revolutionized computing in 1967 with the invention of the mouse, he never received any royalties from his creation
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People who are deliberately thinking about death, on the other hand, produce the least funny cartoon captions
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Both John Paul II and John XXIII will be made saints at the end of the year, suggesting a shift from traditions
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The modern bikini, named after Bikini Atoll where the atomic bomb was tested, was first unleashed on the world more than 75 years ago
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Artist Nickolay Lamm created a 3D doll-sized model of a healthy, average 19-year-old American woman, then made her up like Barbie
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The advent of open fire cooking began with Homo erectus
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Say hello to Pluto's newest moons, Styx and Kerberos
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If you're managed to get yourself into a person vs lion situation, you probably don't know what to do about it. Thankfully, the internet is here for you
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Assuming a false name helped women perform better on math tests
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Buttercup's adorable plight, which concluded on Sunday when engineers successfully outfitted the duck with a 3D printed duck foot
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Mars' moon Phobos may look small in the sky, but it won't for long
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