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A big asteroid will eventually hit the Earth. What can we do to push it out of the way?
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Lolo Jones, the U.S. sprinter who runs the 60 and 100 meter hurdles, was just added to the U.S. bobsledding team roster
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Watch New York City get buried under its own carbon emissions
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National Geographic shows how a team filmed Sarah, the fastest cheetah in the world, sprinting at top speed
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With enough training and determination, women can do pull-ups
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It's hypothetical conflict, but who would emerge the victor?
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The New York Times has an interactive feature showing Picasso's "Woman Ironing" that you can scratch away at to uncover the original pairing - one of a man
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The exhibit includes newspaper clippings, photographs and the last known images of each of the featured works
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Recent research has uncovered how the Tyrannosaurus probably ate the Triceratops: head first
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Vast stores of methane hydrates off the US east coast are thawing out, but what this means is still up in the air
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Historians still puzzle over Napoleon's catastrophic Russian defeat, but materials scientists think the army's buttons may be to blame
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A new chrome extension automatically filters political posts from your social media feeds
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Is it ever ok for us to bend the rules or cheat in order to achieve a greater good, or to support those who do?
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People ascribe different personality traits to cats of different colors, a bias that skews adoption rates
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Songs have a long history of helping us learn things
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The next time you see a little fern out in the wild, it may just be a Gaga
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A beautiful, zoomable, nine-gixapixel photo of the central Milky Way
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The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted this horror-inducing video of ear mites crawling around in some poor 70-year-old man's ear
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