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Would You Drink a Cocktail Invented By a Computer?

How IBM's Watson become the world's most creative bartender

A view of the opening to Danger Cave in 1976, when it was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places

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Utah’s Danger Cave Will Soon Open For a Rare Tour

The cave houses evidence of human habitation from over 11,000 years ago

Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) on 12 February 2015

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Comet Lovejoy is One Boozy Space Rock

The greenish comet that lit up the sky last January releases as much alcohol as 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak

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Adding Faint Scents to Healthy Food Could Make it Taste Better

Scents of salty food may be all it takes to make low-salt items delicious

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Future Cops May Track Down Criminals By Making Fingerprints Glow

One scientist's revenge could be the ultimate crime-fighting tool

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How Contact Lenses Were Made in 1948

Would you put this on your eye?

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This Norwegian Modern Art Museum Is Also a Bridge

An ingeniously twisted design blends art with infrastructure

Planets forming around a young star (artist’s vision)

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92 Percent of Possible Earth Twins Have Yet to Be Born

Our young universe promises trillions of more planets to come

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27 Percent of U.S. Adults Didn't Read a Single Book Last Year

This new survey on reading habits isn't all doom and gloom, though

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The Mysterious Case of the Adirondacks Sugar Maple

The trees are on the decline, but why?

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Lead Poisoning Rampant for Wealthy Medieval Europeans

It wasn't just the Romans that accidentally poisoned themselves

"Adolf Hitler Strasse" wasn't a street in Germany—it was a street at Camp Siegfried, a Nazi summer camp located in Yaphank, New York on Long Island during the 1930s.

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A Town Founded By Nazis Was Just Sued for Housing Discrimination

In parts of Yaphank, laws require homeowners to be of German descent

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Sesame Street Just Welcomed Its First Autistic Muppet

“Julia” is geared towards raising awareness and acceptance

Giant guitarfish (Rhynchobatus djiddensis)

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Instead of Eyelids, This Fish Retracts Its Eyeballs

The giant guitarfish can pull its eyes nearly 1.6 inches inside its head

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Arctic Explorers Uncover (and Eat) 60-Year-Old Food Stash

Tins of jam and crackers hidden in Greenland’s Arctic desert made for a delicious surprise

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An Asteroid Will Buzz by Earth on Halloween

Don't worry—it won't interrupt your Halloween plans

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There’s an Elephant Buried Underneath the Vatican

The forgotten remains of a beloved, 16th-century papal pet

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Great Scott! Stanford Invented a Self-Driving DeLorean Just in Time for Back to the Future Day

But does it use 1.21 gigawatts of electricity?

Was this article written by a data-driven word processing machine...or a robot?

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The Robo-Journalists Are Coming

But did a machine write this story?

Bleached coral pokes through the water's surface off the coast of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

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Sunscreen May Be Destroying Coral Reefs

Just a tiny amount of a common chemical in sunscreen can bleach and break delicate coral

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