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A Third of Animal Mummies Contain no Animals at All

Researchers discover ancient Egyptians peddled fake animal mummies.

An archeologist from Inrap excavates a mass grave below a supermarket in Paris

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Scientists Investigate a Medieval Mass Grave Under a French Supermarket

Renovation work uncovered hundreds of individuals, perhaps all killed by disease at the same time

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Happy Birthday to Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth's Inner Core

Pioneering geologist used earthquakes to unravel the mystory of the Earth’s core

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In the Future, We Might Take Sunscreen in Pill Form

A discovery in some fish suggests that sunblocking chemicals could be ingested rather than slathered on

The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial museum.

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This Company is Turning Holocaust Survivor Interviews into Holograms

Researchers are using new technology to keep Holocaust testimonies alive

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In Three Years the Freedom Tower Will no Longer be America's Tallest Building

New York's Nordstrom Tower will be 1,795 feet tall

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Revealing the Deep Secrets of Deepwater Waves

Scientists hope their study of 1,600-foot underwater waves can help improve climate modeling

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How Snow Keeps the World’s Most Powerful Space Telescope Squeaky Clean

CO2 snowflakes are being tested for use with Hubble’s successor

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France

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Computers Are Learning About Art Faster than Art Historians

An algorithm took just a few months to draw connections between artists that scholars have been working on for years

"Women of Algiers (Version O)" by Pablo Picasso before it went on sale at Christie's auction house in New York City

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Picasso Painting Breaks Auction Record by $37 Million

"Women of Algiers (Version O)" fetched nearly $180 million

Here the experimental chick embryo (center) can be compared to a typical chicken about to hatch (left) and an alligator (right)

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Researchers Create Chicken Embryos With Dinosaur-Like Faces

Researchers seeking to understand how birds got their beaks turned back the evolutionary clock just a tad

Local residents stand outside of buildings in the streets after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal on May 12, 2015.

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Another Big Earthquake Has Hit Nepal

Second major quake hits as the country still struggles to recover from the last one.

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New York State Forms Emergency Task Force to Protect Manicurists

State authorities spurred into action by New York Times expose uncovering health risks and wage theft in New York City’s nail salons

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Watch the Sun Set on Mars

Curiosity takes its first color pictures of a Martian sunset

The South Portico of the White House, around 1950, during Truman's rennovation

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The White House is Mostly a Reconstruction of the Original

The mansion may have been built over 200 years ago, but its skeleton was redone in the early 1950s

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Archivists Are Uncovering Lost Mark Twain Stories

Digital archives reveal Samuel Clemens, struggling journalist

Stegodyphus lineatus

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This Spider Feeds Her Babies by Vomiting up Her Own Guts

Nothing says love like feeding your intestines to your children

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Most American Babies are Born in the Morning

Medical interventions may determine time of birth, says new study

American chestnut seed

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Turning the American Chestnut into a GMO Might be the Only Way to Save it

Adding wheat genes could help the tree fight off blight

This chocolate may look fine, but it’s just a few steps away from disaster

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X-Rays Reveal Why Old Chocolate Turns White

Liquid fat turns out to be the culprit

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