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Tree ring records unveil the severity of California's drought
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An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week
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It is physically and scientifically possible for a body of water to part
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For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn't really a thing until the 1950s
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It doesn't matter how many pureed veggies you drink, they won't vaporize those mysterious "poisons" you've heard about
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A cheap DSLR and some light computer processing can unveil far off exoplanets
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Electric eels can shock prey into both revealing their positions and freezing in place
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The Digital Einstein archive offers a look into the great physicist's writings
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American spaceflight enters a new era
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Healthy coral reefs produce a medley of sounds that ocean creatures use as homing beacons
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A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant
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Conservationists want this particular population of humpbacks to be classified as critically endangered
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Humans likely carry the same kind of cells in our own brains
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Hear African wildlife from the 1930s with the British Library's nature sound archives
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Google is getting rid of spam bots and annoying squiggly text at the same time
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Orion's quest for space will have to wait until tomorrow
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Microbes found in the guts of waxworms like to feast on polyethylene
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Nuclear testing yielded far more, and more diverse, images of mushroom clouds than those that are commonly shown
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Overenthusiastic shale gas estimates may be setting the world up for a fracking crash
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Researchers implanted immature human brain cells in mouse pups, which then grew and replaced nearly half the mice's own cells
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