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People planning to travel to high-elevation locations in Central and South America like Mexico City are breathing a sigh of relief.

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The CDC Says High Elevation Regions Are Safe From Zika

It's welcome news for anyone with travel plans

Say goodbye to the Louvre's iconic pyramid.

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This Summer, the Louvre’s Pyramid Will "Disappear"

A French street artist promises a tantalizing trick of the eye

A right whale spotted off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada in 2011.

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Hundreds of Right Whales Are Returning to Cape Cod

Decades have passed since the endangered species regularly frequented Cape Cod Bay

Blu and local activists erased 20 years' worth of his street art from Bologna, Italy.

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A Prominent Street Artist Just Destroyed All of His Works

Blu used a chisel and gray paint to make a point

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Muggles Are Selling the Chair in Which 'Harry Potter' Was Created

The decorated dining room chair J.K. Rowling used to write her iconic novels is going on sale

Women are still rare behind the camera.

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The National Film Board of Canada Will Give 50 Percent of Its Production Budget to Women

The agency thinks it can achieve full gender parity in just three years

An artist's rendering of the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter

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Mission to Find Life on Mars Blasts Off

The European Space Agency kicks off its ExoMars project to look for methane and other signs of life in the Martian atmosphere

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World War II Survivor Tips Off Geologists to Hidden Tunnels Beneath Naples

The forgotten tunnels were used as bomb shelters

A fresco uncovered in a tavern in Pompeii shows patrons playing a game. Similar scenes probably took place in a Roman tavern recently unearthed in Lattara, an ancient port city in southern France

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2,100-Year-Old Roman Tavern Unearthed, Empty Cups and All

The proposed ancient bar and grill in southern France could shed light on the spread of Roman culture

"Serra Gaucha," by Guy Laramée

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These Mountains Are Made of Books

An interdisciplinary artist creates landscapes out of encyclopedias

Walt Whitman spent much of the Civil War in hospitals, cheering up wounded soldiers and writing letters on their behalf.

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A Rare Walt Whitman Letter Was Found in the National Archives

The poet wrote the letter on behalf of a dying soldier

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Recently Discovered Spider Is Named After Physicist Brian Greene

About the size of the human palm, the "Brian" spider can swim and hunt fish

The northern lights glow over Castle Sands in Saint Andrews, Scotland at 10 P.M. Sunday, March 6, 2016. Captured by Aurorasaurus participant Alex Thompson

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With Breathtaking Pictures, Citizen Scientists Help Map Auroras

Social media users help scientists figure out how to accurately forecast geomagnetic events

"Meditation and Minou," 1980, by Will Barnet.

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The Worcester Art Museum’s New Exhibit Is All Cats, All the Time

New art exhibit will trace humans' captivation with cats throughout history

Elephants in Kenya's Tana River, Morgan's home territory

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Epic Journey Brings First Elephant to Somalia in 20 Years

Meet Morgan, whose 3-week trek shows anti-poaching efforts could be working

A worker sorts plastic in a recycling plant in Bangladesh. A new bacteria could make her job obsolete

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Could Plastic-Gobbling Bacteria Save the Environment?

Japanese scientists discovered a microbe that digests one of the most common plastics

Peter Strien was 21 years old when he was wounded at the battle of Fort Steadman.

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These Eerie Civil War Photos Changed How the U.S. Saw Veterans

Reed Bontecou's groundbreaking photography used a new medium to bring attention to the wounds of war

Bristol Old Vic artistic director Tom Morris with the thunder run.

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A New Production of "King Lear" Features 18th-Century Special Effects

The Bristol Old Vic’s thunder run hasn’t been used since 1942

Each year, FLAP lays out birds collected by volunteers in a bid to raise awareness about the dangers of bird/building collisions.

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This Pattern Is Made of 2,100 Dead Birds

It’s all part of a bid to raise awareness of the plight of birds that crash into city buildings

An illustration of galaxy superclusters and cosmic voids, similar to the structure of the BOSS Great Wall

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Meet the BOSS, the Largest Structure in the Universe (So Far)

Astronomers recently discovered a wall of galaxies 1 billion light years across, larger than anything else yet identified in the cosmos

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