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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new logo.

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New Met Logo Typifies the Eternal Struggle of Rebranding

From the Met to the MoMA

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This Penguin on a Treadmill Shows How Waddles Work

Fat penguins have a harder time walking than swimming

NASA's OSIRIS-REx project will send a craft to a near-Earth asteroid and take a sample to study back on Earth.

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NASA Wants You to Send Your Art to an Asteroid

The agency is looking for creative contributions as it readies its mission to study and sample a near-Earth asteroid

An African elephant wanders Hlane National Park in Swaziland. Now, 18 of the park's elephants may be airlifted to the United States due to drought.

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Drought May Force 18 Elephants Out of Africa

As the driest rainy season in 35 years threatens southern Africa, elephants have become a flashpoint

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This French Town Is Covered in Citrus Sculptures

Ten-foot-tall lemon sculptures herald the Fête du Citron

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This Stunning Dragon Dance Was All for the Sake of Tea

Your next cup could be filled with New Year's luck

The perfectly preserved Bronze Age wheels in the dig go round and round.

Archaeologists Uncovered a Perfect Bronze Age Wheel

Excavations at “Britain’s Pompeii” are on a roll

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Happy 543rd Birthday, Nicolaus Copernicus

The Renaissance scientist set the stage for modern astronomy

Did the prehistoric civilization of Easter Island really "collapse"?

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New Evidence Finds That Easter Island Wasn’t Destroyed by War After All

Did islanders really experience a catastrophic “collapse” of their own making?

This photograph of Harper Lee was taken in 1961, one year after she wrote for the Grapevine.

Five Things to Know About Harper Lee

The spunky and eloquent author is dead—but her legacy lives on

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Here’s Why French People Are Getting Riled Up About the Circumflex

Little accent, big debate

This artist’s impression shows the super-Earth 55 Cancri e in front of its parent star.

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Hubble Gets a Whiff of Super-Earth Atmosphere For The First Time

The toasty planet’s atmosphere is similar to a gas giant’s

Dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky appears at Moscow's Tagansky District Court on suspicion of vandalism.

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Russia Cancels Top Art Prize After Dissident Artist Nominated

Judges walk out in support of the provocative performance artist

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Russia Wants to Turn Old Missiles Into an Asteroid Defense System

One of the world's deadliest missiles could become a planetary life-saver

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These Glass Discs Can Store Data for Billions of Years

“Five-dimensional” data discs could be the future of information storage

Comparison of a Neanderthal skull (left) and a human skull (right) with a 55,000-year-old fragment from a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid.

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Humans May Have Had Romantic Rendezvous With Neanderthals 100,000 Years Ago

New DNA evidence suggests that ancient humans got busy with our stocky Neanderthal cousins much earlier than previously thought

"Cakeland Vault"

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Wander About Inside This Giant Cake Sculpture

Try to refrain from eating the art

Millenials = oenophiles, according to a new study.

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Millennials Drink More Wine Than Anyone Else

The much-maligned generation has a penchant for vino

This tiny flower is thought to be related to the poisonous Strychnos genus.

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New Species of Prehistoric Flower Discovered Preserved in Amber

Rare fossil may be an ancient relative of the potato

Scientists used an an integrated tissue-organ printer, or ITOP, to create this ear.

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Scientists Printed a Human Ear

The scientific breakthrough is more than a creepy experiment—one day, it could save lives

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