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Some Android phones have barometers, and scientists want to use your observations to predict the weather
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The squid is about 10-feet long and was spotted over half a mile below the ocean surface about 620 miles south of Tokyo
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Haven't you always wanted to own a launch pad?
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The Quadrantid shower is already behind us, and star gazers will have to wait until April (the start of meteor shower season) for the next big show
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The rescued baby is bringing attention to Lewa's efforts to protect its ailing rhino populations that are being picked off by poachers
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Banned in England until 1961, a copy of this 17th-century text is going up for auction
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If you're going to win a snow battle, you've got to have a snow fort. Here's how to make the best one
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Rather than tossing your tree, turn it into spruce beer
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While a Martian day is only 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, the differences quickly add up
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A bluefin tuna goes for $3,599 per pound
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The crew of Apollo 15 placed a small aluminum sculpture on the moon to memorialize those astronauts had died
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Humans have loved flowers for millennia, for both their looks and their scents
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Using lasers and magnets, a group of physicists pushed potassium atoms to a state colder than absolute zero
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For the past decade, these two men have allegedly been smuggling narwhal tusks
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This research may have a silly title, but it does answer an important question of global significance
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People wrote more than 40,000 words on average last year... in email
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Rosetta Stone language tapes for babies may soon usurp Beethoven as the womb soundtrack of choice
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Someday those pesky fallen needles may help save lives—or at least sterilize needles for annual flu shots
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A recent study finds that overweight or slightly obese people live longer than normal-weight people, but critics call foul on some of these conclusions
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Mars once had a vast ocean. What would that have looked like?
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