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Here’s Why the Dutch Are So Tall

A new study shows natural selection is alive and well in the Netherlands

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Colorado Lake Teems with Feral Goldfish

Parks and Wildlife thinks a goldfish owner dumped his pets into a local lake. Now a few years later, the fish swarm the water in thousands

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These Mud Figures Fight Injustice

“Figures” challenges British austerity policies—and an artist’s physical endurance

The observatory atop Mauna Kea

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Hawaiians Are Protesting Construction of the World’s Largest Telescope

Native Hawai'ian activists say the volcano-top project is damaging sacred lands

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Northern Europeans Were Not So Sold on Farming

A new study of ancient beads shows “an enduring cultural boundary” between northern and southern Europe during the Neolithic Age

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A Plan for a Robot Who Can Impersonate Your Mom

Google has a patent for artificial intelligence with a personality -- and that patent might not be a good idea

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Court Rules Navy Noise Causes Too Much Harm to Marine Mammals

A federal judge declares the National Marine Fisheries Service did not do its job to protect dolphins and whales

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This Little Kid Discovered a Dinosaur

A rare nodosaur has been found in Texas...by a little boy

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Study Suggests Thinking Less Is Key to Faster Learning

New research shows sometimes our own brains get in the way of acquiring new skills

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How Did an Ottoman War Camel End Up in an Austrian Basement?

Archaeologists think they have solved the mystery

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Here's Why You Wince at Wasabi

The structure will help researchers understand pain— and create drugs that could suppress it.

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Teen Pregnancies Have Hit an All-Time Low

But teens still aren’t opting for the most effective forms of birth control

Who wouldn't love that face?

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Lady Wolf Spiders Use Silk to Flirt

Counter to the common wisdom, it’s not just males that do the pursuing

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Meet Your New Favorite Font

Haas Unica, Helvetica’s long-lost sibling, is back after 30 years in obscurity

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The Sun Has Seasons

And you thought it was just "hot"

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Paintings Have Become Increasingly Blue

Move over, orange: modern art is all about hues of blue

Drones to Plant 1 Billion Seeds in a Year (Hopefully)

Reforestation by machines is cool, but it won’t save the planet

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Meet a Hermit Crab Who Has Shacked Up in a Lego

Weird things can become home sweet home when you are a tiny soft crustacean

The newfound ruins could outshine their neighbor, the underground city of Derinkuyu (pictured).

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Archaeologists Unfold World's Largest Underground City in Turkey

Archaeologists find evidence to believe a site just discovered in 2012 could be a complex subsurface labyrinth

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70 Percent of Western Canada’s Glaciers Will Disappear by 2100

And that’s the conservative side of scientists’ ice melt projections

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