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Residents evacuate their homes in Chennai during catastrophic floods.

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Five Things You Should Know about the Catastrophic Flooding in Chennai

Mass evacuations, a submerged airport and questions about the city's urban planning

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Here’s What Happens When You Age Whisky

Hint: The barrel really does matter

Twelve decades worth of averaged yearbook portraits

New Research

Yearbook Photos Show How Smiles Have Widened Over the Decades

An analysis of roughly 38,000 high-school senior portraits shows Americans’ frowns turning upside down

Screenshot from "Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Tangible Holographic Plasma (SIGGRAPH)"

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This Holograph Can Be Touched and Manipulated

Tiny interactive displays use lasers to create touchable plasma

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Hundreds of Fake Ads Protest Paris Climate Summit’s Corporate Sponsors

Artists in Paris distributed 600 posters calling out companies' hypocrisy

Never fear—Swett, SD's town sign has been replaced with one that doesn't have bullet holes.

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For Sale: A Haunted Ghost Town

Swett, South Dakota can be yours for just $250,000

The rainforest edge at the Amazon river in Peru

New Research

Amazon Tree Census Makes Clear Just How Many Species are in Trouble

More than half of the Amazon's trees could qualify as threatened species

This is an artist's impression of sauropod dinosaurs on the Isle of Skye.

New Research

Hundreds of Dinosaur Tracks Discovered Along the Scottish Coast

Giant sauropods once roamed the Isle of Skye

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Minecraft Players Are Recreating Scenes From Studio Ghibli Movies

Now gamers can romp around Yubaba’s Bath House and clamber into a Catbus

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Americans Used to Really Hate Tipping

Are gratuity's days numbered?

Male or female? Turns out there's no distinction.

New Research

There’s No Such Thing as a Male or Female Brain

When it comes to sex traits, brains are consistently inconsistent

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Mount Everest’s Glaciers are Turning Into Lakes

Thousands of Himalayan glaciers could melt by the end of the century

New Research

Europeans Only Started Digesting Dairy 4,000 Years Ago

They can enjoy that cheese thanks to ancient nomadic herders

Wisdom (front) and her mate

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The Oldest Known Seabird Is About to Lay Another Egg

Wisdom the Laysan albatross has lived at least 64 years and raised as many as 36 chicks

An Antarctic minke whale, the animal Japanese whaling vessels target

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Japan Starts its Whale Hunt Again

Despite an international ruling, the Japanese fleet plans to harvest 333 minke whales

A booking photo from Rosa Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955.

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Sixty Years Later, Cities Celebrate Rosa Parks’ Legacy

Statues, streets and anti-bias education commemorate the civil rights activist's historic protest

A map of human impacts around the globe where green areas show areas with the least amount of human influence and red and purple show the areas with the greatest.

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Explore the Complexities of Climate Change with These Interactive Maps

Understanding the ins and outs requires some strong visualizations

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What Was the First Thing Sold on the Internet?

The answer depends on how the question is approached

Centurions drink from a fountain near Rome's Coliseum during a heat wave in summer 2014. A recent announcement that centurion reenactors will be banned from the Coliseum during 2016 has led to protests and public outcry.

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Rome Just Banned Centurions

Officials stir up controversy by kicking impersonators out of the Colosseum

"History will be kind to me," wrote Winston Churchill, "for I intend to write it myself."

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UNESCO Honors Winston Churchill's Writings With the Equivalent of World Heritage Status

Churchill's papers join the ranks of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Anne Frank's diary and the Magna Carta

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