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A three billion mile hunt will climax soon when Rosetta, quite literally, harpoons a comet
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Lego platforms propped the sarcophagus in place from the inside, allowing the researchers to work on the ancient materials without fear of collapse
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A 3D scanner, similar to Microsoft's Kinect, is coming to your mobile device
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Using videos of thirsty customers lining up for bar-side drinks, they created algorithm equivalents for "I want a drink" body language
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Mathematic and musical detectives have discovered that perhaps Beethoven's tempo was so strange because his metronome was broken
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Watch this time lapse trip all the way around the Moon
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Flies, for example, can perceive visual stimuli four times faster than we can
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Acid rain is "dissolving the surface of the Earth," making streams more alkaline in the process
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The idea of there being one genetic "you" is up in the air
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Two cups of flour, a nice zinfandel, a pinch of sun-dried tomatoes, and 3 chopped squirrels
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Of the 67 mass shootings in the US over the past three decades, more than three-quarters of the 143 guns used were obtained legally
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Google has teemed with the Halo Trust, a non-profit that works to remove land mines and other unexploded ordinances that often linger after a conflict ends
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We all know the symptoms: the red sports car, the leather jacket, the journey to "find oneself," the tattoos
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In New York City you are never more than six feet away from a rat and its diseases
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China has been the focus of much of the attention surrounding sex selection at birth, but recent numbers have shown that it's not a problem unique to Asia
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A three minute video shows 1000 years of European conquest
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The mysterious man claims to have never attended school, received any vaccinations and to have met only a few people throughout his life
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This time lapse video shows the assembly of NASA's next Mars orbiter, MAVEN
It turns out the process of making high end globes is both fascinating and beautiful
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One river system, called the Irharhar, appears to have been a particularly popular travel route, corroborated by both model simulations and artifacts
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