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Excavations of a Dark Ages palace on the Tintagel Peninsula in Cornwall

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A Palace Was Unearthed Where Legend Places King Arthur's Birthplace

Archaeologists at Tintagel uncover walls and artifacts from a Dark Ages complex likely used by local kings

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An Insect Could Make Ash Baseball Bats a Thing of the Past

The invasive emerald ash borer is threatening the forests where Rawlings and Louisville Sluggers come from, putting the bats in jeopardy

In NASA's new "Mars Rover" game, players drive a rover through rough Martian terrain, challenging themselves to navigate and balance the rover.

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Take a Spin Around Mars in NASA’s New Rover Game

Tour the Red Planet without the risk of a multi-million dollar crash

"Portrait of a Woman" being scanned by the synchrotron.

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Scientists Uncover a “Hidden” Portrait by Edgar Degas

A powerful X-ray unveiled one of the painter’s rough drafts

The viewing pod slides up and down the tower, which has been acknowledged as world's most slender by Guinness World Records.

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New Observation Tower Is World's Thinnest

Brighton's West Pier comes back to life...as a crazy vertical viewing tower

Rising drought. Surging seas. Spiking temperatures. 2015 was just another year in a long pattern of Earth's changing climate.

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World’s Climate Hit Extremes, Shattered Multiple Records in 2015

From rising temperatures and ocean levels to record greenhouse gas levels, 2015 was a rough year for planet Earth

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Thieves Are Making Off With Millions of Dollars in Stolen Nuts

It's a hard case to crack

The ancient carving after it was vandalized by well-intentioned youth.

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One of the Earliest Images of Skiing Was Destroyed by Youths Trying to “Improve It”

The petroglyph was made 5,000 years ago

It may not have been love at first sight, but America is finally developing a crush on bottled water.

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Sorry, Soda: The U.S. Is Just Not That Into You

Americans will buy more bottled water than soda for the first time ever in 2016

A reconstruction from the 3,700-year-old remains of Ava, a woman unearthed in the Scottish Highlands

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Meet Ava, a Bronze Age Woman From the Scottish Highlands

A forensic artist has recreated the face of a woman alive 3,700 years ago

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EU Releases Its First Invasive Species Blacklist

Gray squirrels, raccoons and crayfish were among the prohibited species

An artist's concept of Moon Express's MX-1 Micro Lander, which may head to the moon as soon as next year.

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The First Private Lunar Landing Was Just Approved

Moon Express will head to Earth’s nearest neighbor in 2017

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Diaries of Holocaust Architect Heinrich Himmler Discovered in Russia

The man who designed the Nazi concentration camps switched easily between recording domestic life and mass murder

"The Brooding Woman," by Paul Gauguin, was one of the paintings stolen at gunpoint from the Worcester Art Museum in 1972.

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The First Armed Art Heist in History Is Being Made Into a Movie

But <i>Ocean’s 11</i>, this isn’t

These shaggy icons may be long gone by next century due to climate change.

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California’s Joshua Trees Are Under Threat

Climate change could decimate the iconic tree for future generations

Ooh, shiny.

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The Government Just Won a Long Legal Battle Over Rare Coins

The enigmatic Double Eagles are anything but trinkets

A illustration of a herd of hadrosaurs like the arthritic one discovered in New Jersey.

New Research

This Duck-Billed Dinosaur Had a Rare Case of Arthritis

Nothing like a bum leg

"I apologise to the indigenous people on behalf of the government, to give our deepest apology over the suffering and injustice you endured over the past 400 years," Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen said during in her speech on Monday.

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Taiwan's President Issues First Formal Apology to Nation's Indigenous Peoples

Tsai Ing-wen is also setting up new programs and implementing laws to guarantee basic rights for native inhabitants

Some of the threads discovered at Must Farms are the width of a human hair.

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This Ball of Thread Is 3,000 Years Old

If it is simply held in the wrong way, the priceless artifact could crumble to pieces

A brittle star swimming over a field of polymetallic nodules

Journey to the Center of Earth

Future Deep Sea Mining Sites Are Bursting With Rare Marine Species

The area is full of rare metals, but a new study shows it's a hub for deep-sea diversity, too

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