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Giovanni Stanchi (Rome c. 1645-1672). Oil on canvas, 38 5/8 x 52½ in.

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This Renaissance Painting of Fruit Holds a Modern-Day Science Lesson

Hint: it's in the watermelon

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Feeling Small in the Face of Nature Makes People More Generous

Awe, yeah

Satellite images of the Moon moving around the Earth

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Breathtaking Space GIF Gives Earth a New Perspective of the Moon

NASA's EPIC camera took the image a million miles from Earth

Black chicken served with bamboo shoots and caterpillar fungus

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Why This Chicken is Black From Comb to Feathers to Muscles

The Ayam Cemani is the Goth of the chicken world

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The Physics of a UFC Fighter so Fast, She Might Just Be Bionic

Two words: kinetic energy

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By Keeping Cows From Burping, This Drug Could Slow Down Climate Change

That cheeseburger may soon be less harmful to the environment

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Balloon or Drone? The Internet's Space Race is Heating Up

Facebook and Google battle to provide the best internet connection from the edge of the atmosphere

A resident walks along the border of an Indian enclave within Bangladesh

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This Was the Turducken of Border Disputes

Dahala Khagrabari (#51) used to be a piece of India inside Bangladesh, inside India, inside Bangladesh

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Teen Schools Professor on "No Irish Need Apply" Signs

Armed with a Google search and a theory, a 14-year-old enters the fray on a longstanding historical debate

Iceberg Lake and melting glacier in Glacier National Park

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Glaciers Are Retreating Faster Than Before

The future of Earth's glaciers is unsettling at best

Red Rocks Park, Jefferson County, Colorado.

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The Parks Service Just Added Four New National Historic Landmarks

Masonic memorials, bison jumps and parks

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The Middle East Just Lived Through One of the Hottest Days in History

An Iranian city logged a 165-degree heat index last week as temperatures continue to boil

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Astronauts Have Some Weird Pre-Launch Traditions

Rituals are important when you're about to rocket into space

A vintage Antonov An-2 in Poland.

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North Korea's Military Still Uses Stealth Planes From the 1940s

The An-2 can hover and fly backwards

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How Emojis Could Help People With Food Allergies

Bread emoji. Disappointed face emoji.

Roofs became pleas for help for people and their pets following Hurricane Katrina

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How Hurricane Katrina Changed Pets' Legal Status

The loss of thousands of pets to the hurricane encouraged lawmakers to rethink society’s responsibility to animals

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A 13th-Century Sword Is Giving Historians a Headache

The sword's inscription is an 800-year-old mystery

Artist’s view of a black hole — the normal sized kind, mini black holes would be cuter.

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Why Super-Small Black Holes Haven’t Destroyed the Universe

And probably won't

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Scientists Have Been Talking About Greenhouse Gases for 191 Years

The first explorations of the greenhouse effect began in 1824

Sri Lakan Slender Loris

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Why Primatologists Love Collecting Poop

There's intel inside monkey feces — in the form of DNA

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