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Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková as seen in October 2011

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Fireworks Not Your Thing? Then Look Out For a Comet on New Year’s Eve

With a telescope in hand, you can watch a comet zoom past the Earth tomorrow night

Yosemite National Park

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The Year in National Parks

From people stealing baby bison and Yosemite trademarks to epic blooms in Death Valley, 2016 has been an eventful centennial year for the NPS

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China Has Banned the Ivory Trade

By the end of 2017, the world’s largest ivory market will be closed

Pan Pan sired around 25 percent of all pandas in captivity.

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Goodbye, Pan Pan: World’s Oldest Male Panda Dies

He was a prolific panda papa

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We Will Have to Endure 2016 One Second Longer Than an Average Year

It’s not giving up the ghost quite yet

An unidentified Hanna-Barbera Productions painter works on an animation cel of Fred Flintstone. THE FLINTSTONES and all related characters and elements © & ™ Hanna-Barbera. (s16)

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Meet the Men Behind Saturday Morning's Most Memorable Cartoons

Zoinks! Hanna-Barbera once dominated kids’ Saturday schedules

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Artist Geocaches His Work Throughout Central Park

Brad Troemel's Freecaching is a tongue-in-cheek response to New York's high rent and a new way to "store" artwork

Throw one back in honor of Robert Leo Hulseman, the inventor of America's most iconic cup.

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How a Red Party Cup Became an American Icon

There's just something about Solo cups

Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are just some of the Vatican Museums' vast holdings.

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The Vatican Names Its First Woman Museum Director

Barbara Jatta just smashed through one frescoed ceiling

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Rains Transform Australia's Uluru National Park Into a Waterfall Wonderland

Record storms flooded roads and swelled rivers near the park's iconic natural feature

Decoder glasses help visitors view both utopian and dystopian angles to the exhibition

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This Art Show Looks at 500 Years of Failed Utopias

So far, the ideal has yet to work out

Thousands of lab rodents disposed of at Dartmouth College are being blamed for radioactive contaminations and carcinogens in local groundwater.

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Residents Claim Ivy League College Polluted Water With Dead Lab Rodents

Burial of lab animals in the ‘60s and ‘70s have been linked to groundwater contamination in Hanover, New Hampshire

The old county courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama will soon be just one of the town's many To Kill a Mockingbird-themed attractions.

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Lawyer Wants to Make Harper Lee’s Hometown a Haven for Tourists

Monroeville, Alabama, could change with a proposed Harper Lee Trail

Chinchorro mummy at San Miguel de Azapa Museum in Arica, Chile

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What Have the World’s Oldest Mummies Kept Under Wraps?

Researchers are making digital reconstructions of the 7,000-year-old bodies, which face rapid deterioration from microbes

Street in Apia, the capital of Samoa, when that country was still on American time.

Five Years Ago, This Island Nation Lost an Entire Day

On this day in 2011, Samoa switched sides of the international date line for the second time, losing December 30 in the process. Here's why

A painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, one of thousands of insect species that migrate over southern England

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Researchers Record Trillions of Migrating Insects Swarming Through the Skies

Though bugs make up a large amount of biomass, little was known about their migrating habits, until now

An audio tape from the oral history collection at the Navajo Nation Library

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Navajo Nation Library Wants to Digitally Preserve Thousands of Hours of Oral Histories

The library is looking for help protecting its tapes

A woman smashes her laptop at Good Riddance Day in 2015

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2016 Got You Down? Trash All Your Woes on Good Riddance Day

Inspired by a Latin American tradition, Good Riddance Day is one way to say goodbye to this year’s bad memories

Pangolins are prized for their meat and their scales, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Chinese Officials Seize 3.1 Tons of Pangolin Scales

The record-breaking bust shines a spotlight on the plight of the pangolin

Vik Muniz's "Perfect Strangers"

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New York City’s Long-Awaited Second Avenue Subway Is Packed With Public Art

The city’s four newest subway stations are covered in colorful mosaics

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