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The Very First Self-Driving Semi Truck Has Hit the Road

The Freightliner Inspiration is the first commercially-licensed autonomous truck

An ocean sunfish hangs out with pilotfishes

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Goofy Looking Ocean Sunfish Are Actually Active Swimmers and Predators

The idea that these giant fish are lazy is just wrong

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The Mystery of What Venus de Milo Was Once Holding

A distaff, thread and spindle could have been held in her upraised arms and would have been appropriate for the goddess of love

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Two French Towns Are Battling Over a Saint’s Remains

Should Saint Bernadette be laid to rest in the town she made famous…or the one she chose to live in?

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The Silk Road Never Really Existed

China is attempting to turn away from its isolated past with an immense new infrastructure project

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How to Become a Fossil in Five Easy Steps

Tricks to preserving your bones for future archaeologists

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CDC Says Ebola Survivors Should Keep Using Condoms Indefinitely

The virus may survive in semen longer than originally thought

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Department of Justice Says it’s Time to Reevaluate the Stingray Phone-Tracking System

New report says agency to take a look into cell phone snooping.

Diamond crystal on kimberlite from Eastern Siberia

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This African Plant Leads the Way to Diamond Deposits

A palm-like plant seems to grow only on top of diamond-rich deposits called kimberlite pipes

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This is How Bombardier Beetles Fire Explosives From Their Butts

The beetls have a special chamber in their abdomens where they mix together chemicals to produce an explosive reaction

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You Can See South Korea’s Seaweed Farms From Space

Seaweed farms offer a sustainable source of vegetable protein

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Most Surgery Outcomes Aren’t Tracked

New analysis finds only 153 clinical registries nationwide

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A Piranha Was Just Found in an Arkansas Lake

The sharp-toothed fish was likely a pet gone rogue

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Germany Just Opened a Nazi Museum in the Party's Former Headquarters

70 years later, Munich's mayor says the city is ready to "face up to its Nazi past"

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Researchers Come Closer to Making Everyone a Universal Blood Donor

The approach uses an enzyme to snip off the parts of blood cells that can prove problematic

A 1911 illustration of a vampire squid

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Poop Eating Vampire Squids Aren't Actually Squids at All

The strange-looking animals have a very different reproductive strategy than other cephalopods

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Curling, Baking, Typos: How This Year’s Kentucky Derby Contenders Got Their Names

What’s in a name? A lot, if you want to tackle the Triple Crown

Lenin's body in 1991. Thanks to the Lenin Lab, the corpse still looks virtually the same today.

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Meet the Group of Scientists That Keeps Lenin’s 90-Year-Old Corpse Fresh

90 years later, Vladimir Lenin’s body is still maintained by a Russian lab

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Report Suggests Top Psychologists Worked With the C.I.A. on Torture Program

Newly-published emails reveal secret collaboration between the A.P.A. and Bush Administration

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Here's Why The Italian Army is Growing Weed

They want to lower the price of medicinal marijuana by growing their own

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