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In New York City you are never more than six feet away from a rat and its diseases
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China has been the focus of much of the attention surrounding sex selection at birth, but recent numbers have shown that it's not a problem unique to Asia
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A three minute video shows 1000 years of European conquest
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The mysterious man claims to have never attended school, received any vaccinations and to have met only a few people throughout his life
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This time lapse video shows the assembly of NASA's next Mars orbiter, MAVEN
It turns out the process of making high end globes is both fascinating and beautiful
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One river system, called the Irharhar, appears to have been a particularly popular travel route, corroborated by both model simulations and artifacts
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Most architects want everybody to see their buildings. But in South Korea, designers are working to achieve exactly the opposite: an invisible skyscraper
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As much as researchers themselves want to believe that breakfast helps people lose weight or keep it off, the evidence is far from conclusive
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The idea behind Danielle, who is based on a real person, is "that something is happening but you can't see it but you can feel it, like aging itself"
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What used to take half an hour now lasts mere minues
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6.6 million children died before their first birthday last year, but the good news is that number is going down
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When it comes to super long distances, women are catching up to men
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Before we actually went to space, we had some ideas about what Earth might look like
The authors suspect that other great apes and species of intelligent animals likely use similar communication strategies
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Follow in Darwin's footsteps, starting on San Cristobal Island and then venturing to Floreana Island and North Seymour Island
In a cave in Mexico, the disembodied corpses of dozens of people
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This might sound like the beginning of a cartoon, but it's not. Molasses is bad for wildlife, and the officials are dealing with an environmental disaster
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Farmers may be able to use growl-broadcasting, motion-triggered speakers to deter elephants from raiding their crops
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Steam coming from a mothballed plutonium plant could mean North Korea is resuming its weapons program
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