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After fruitless hunts for a Liberian songbird, DNA analysis suggests that the species is not new
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High-resolution video and 3D scanning brings the SS <i>Thistlegorm</i> to armchair archaeologists everywhere
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A story of pollution hides in the grime of museums' birds specimens
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Radiocarbon dating shows the dugout canoe found in Cocoa, Florida, has a 50 percent chance of being from 1640 to 1680
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More than 130 years after it was completed, "Renoir and Friends" returns to the famed painting
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Gail Halvorsen's efforts made children happy but they also provided the U.S. military with an opportunity
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Small injuries are a commonplace problem, but before the Band-Aid, protecting papercuts and other such wounds was a huge hassle
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The sixteenth-century debate over how to determine longitude had a lot of participants—and one woman
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Though the ivory trade was banned internationally in 1990, the UK permits the sale of items crafted before 1947
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A new exhibition shows how Jacqui Kenny has photographed stunning images of the planet without leaving her London home
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It's a complicated but ingenious way to catch a meal
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The supernova provided proof to Galileo, Kepler and others that the heavens were not fixed–although they were wrong about what caused the bright star
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The free instant messaging service introduced millions to the joys of online communication, but it fell behind in the social media age
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The creatures are likely drawn to the area by the high concentrations of duck poop
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The grassroots coalition spearheaded a U.N. treaty to outlaw nuclear arms and hopes to make them taboo, like chemical weapons
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Figuring out what they were was just the beginning of a field of research into prions and prion diseases that's still growing
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The plaque dedicating the country's new national Holocaust memorial was criticized for making no reference to Jews or anti-Semitism
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The vibrant aurora lit up the night sky over the city of Kyoto, Japan, some 250 years ago
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The full moon closest to the equinox rises soon after sunset, casting a glow early evening that helps farmers bring in their crops
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Cartoonist Bil Keane landed on a formula that worked and he stuck to it
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