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A New Cooking Oil Can Be Reused 80 Times

Could it make for better French fries and disrupt a worldwide black market at the same time?

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The Color White Has a Dark Past

From race to wealth to cleanliness, the color's connotations have a long history

The motor convoy departed D.C. on July 7, 1919.

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How a Hellish Road Trip Revolutionized American Highways

Quicksand, food rationing, and embarrassment may have prompted Ike to push for a better highway system

Loren P. Woods, curator of fish at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1968. But could he handle a horse?

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Would You Pass This 1910 Museum Curator Test?

Don't know how to steer a canoe? Instant fail

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Modern Life Could Be Making Dementia More Common

Dementia is affecting people more and earlier than ever before — but is pollution the culprit?

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The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

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Dinosaurs May Have Lived (and Died) Among Ancient Daisies

<i>Triceratops</i> loves me, <i>Triceratops</i> loves me not...

Dense smoke rises as fire engines arrive at the blast site after the deadly explosions in Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China.

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It's Strangely Difficult to Measure Big Explosions

But is it time for a makeover?

A "kissing bug," the insect whose bite can transmit the parasite that causes Chagas disease

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Why Infectious Tropical Diseases Are Returning to America

Climate, geography and economy are just a few risk factors

Female saiga at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Russia in 2009

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What Killed Over 134,000 Endangered Antelopes?

Experts are closer to an answer

A painting of a bird from the 1633 Manual of Calligraphy and Painting.

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The World's Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Was Too Fragile to Read...Until Now

The 1633 book has now been digitized

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Why Coffee Makes Some People Poop

It's not the caffeine

Engineers at Cambridge University created a robot that could build and improve on other robots, in an artificial form of natural selection.

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Watch a Robot Evolve

It's the mother of all robots

Screenshot from the short "Chad Gadya"

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This Animation Is Made of Embroidery

It took a year and a half to create a short film using "embroidermation"

Acropora species, like those pictured above in Malaysia, seem to be targeted by a disease that destroys coral tissue.

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A Mysterious Disease Is Killing Corals

Researchers still haven't cracked the mystery of "white syndrome"

The bust of Nefertiti at the Altes Museum in Berlin

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Could a Door in King Tut's Tomb Lead to Nefertiti?

There could be more in Tutanhkamun's burial chamber than meets the eye

This man living in Dubai would need proper documentation if his bird is to fly — on an airplane, that is

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Falcons Can’t Fly Without Passports in the United Arab Emirates

ID documents are helping stamp out smuggling for the prized birds

Overwintering monarch butterflies

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Scientists Are Still Baffled by Monarch Migration

When it comes to declining winter butterfly populations, something just doesn't add up

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This is How Bread Takes Shape in Tajikistan

A poke, a slap, a prized tradition

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Watch the Perseids Peak This Week

Summer's stunning meteor shower is sure to please stargazers

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