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Visitors to the Fortingall Yew are snapping twigs, stealing needles and tying beads and ribbons to branches, which experts believe may be stressing it out
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The roadside sign is dedicated to BASIC, a computer programming language developed at Dartmouth College in 1964
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The adhesive offers both impressive strength and reusability, avoiding the problems posed by strong but irreversible glues and vice versa
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The little yellow submarine named by the internet explored the Southern Ocean, finding surface winds drive mixing in the deep abyss
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The newly opened underground network features a brick oven once used to heat the baths' caldarium, as well as a contemporary video art installation
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William Portwood admitted his involvement in attacking minister James Reeb to reporters just weeks before his death
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The more food bears obtain from humans, the more likely they are to lose their natural fear of us
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The Monterey cypress believed to have partially inspired Dr. Seuss's 1971 classic enviromental tale toppled last week for unknown reasons
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The primitive projectiles probably date to the Romanian ruler's 1461 through 1462 siege of Zishtova Fortress
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The event marked the largest-ever underwater cleanup effort
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Nearly half of breed behavioral differences can be attributed to hereditary factors
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A spinal condition thought to be caused by carrying heavy loads is actually a function of age, a new study finds
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The project will be featured in a major da Vinci exhibition dropping in October
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The new study is one of the first to demonstrate fish egg dispersal via avian fecal matter
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Wolves don't have the muscle to make that classic wide-eyed gaze, suggesting strong evolutionary pressures were at play in our pooches
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After three years of retrofitting lights, the national park will soon be certified by the International Dark Sky Association
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Leaving lawns untreated and allowing flowering plants to grow can help support the endangered rusty patched bumblebee
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It was previously thought that the plants rarely ate vertebrate animals
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Rebecca Salome Foster was known as the "Tombs Angel" in recognition of her work with inmates housed at a Manhattan prison known as "The Tombs"
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The victims died when a ship transporting them to Canada was wrecked offshore of Cap-des-Rosiers beach
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