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Soon, the garish colors of M&Ms will take a more natural turn.

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This Company Just Ditched Artificial Food Dyes

The food of the future won’t necessarily look less fake—but its ingredient list might

Sakurajima spews ash in this undated photo.

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Watch a Japanese Volcano Put on a Spectacular Show

Lightning and lava? No biggie

Technicians hard at work are dwarfed by the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

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A New Experimental Fusion Reactor Powers Up in Germany

The reactor's first test was brief but successful

Mutations in mitochondria (marked in blue) can lead to serious genetic diseases.

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U.S Panel Deems "Three Parent Babies" Ethical to Test

Mitochondrial replacement therapy could help prevent genetic diseases

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The Only Known Jaguar in America Was Finally Caught on Video

“El Jefe” made a rare appearance in Arizona

Emperor penguin chicks huddle for warmth. New research shows that huddling behavior, or aggregation, may vary across penguin colonies.

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Here's the Latest on Penguins

From invasive "fairies" to huddling chicks, penguins are the perfect pick-me-up

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Infants Can See Things That Adults Cannot

Over time, our brains start filtering out details deemed unimportant

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Women "Catch" Yawns More Easily Than Men

Researchers sneakily observed thousands of interactions to see if gender made a difference in the contagiousness of yawning

An image of the fossilized lacewing Oregramma illecebrosa, left, and the modern owl butterfly Calico Memnon, right.

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Jurassic-Era Insect Looks Just Like a Modern Butterfly

Jurassic "butterflies" helped pollinate ancient plants millions of years before the butterfly even existed

This Venus flytrap is just biding its time to ensure the meal is worth its energy.

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Venus Flytraps Know How to Count

Figuring out when to chomp is as easy as one, two, three, four, five

A view of Earth from a replica of the Cupola Observation Module.

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Check Out This Scale Replica of The International Space Station

Pretend you’re in orbit without ever leaving the ground

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A Chin-Stroking Mystery: Why Are Humans the Only Animals With Chins?

It's an evolutionary conundrum, and scientists are still divided over the answer

A human embryo at the four-cell stage.

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British Scientists Get Permission to Genetically Modify Human Embryos for Research

The scientists plan to use genetic engineering techniques to study infertility

The moon rises over the Sahara Desert. New research links a rising moon to lower humidity and a decreased chance of rain.

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The Moon's Tidal Forces May Affect How Much It Rains

The higher the moon, the lower the chance of rain

Slogans like the one on this propaganda poster for Mao Zedong, "Urgently Forge Ahead and Bravely Advance with Great Leader Chairman Mao,” take on a new smell now that it’s revealed that Stalin may have studied his poop.

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Stalin May Have Studied Mao’s Poop in a Secret Lab

Get a whiff of this stranger-than-fiction story of political paranoia and Soviet science

A beached sperm whale on January 13, in Wangerooge, Germany

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At Least 17 Sperm Whales Washed Up on North Sea Shores

The cause of the cetacean tragedy is still a mystery

Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million miles by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.

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The Curious History of The International Flat Earth Society

The recent resurgence of this ancient idea reminds us that flat Earth believers have a long history

Omo hanging with her herd

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Rare White Giraffe Survived Her First Year

The 15-month old calf has so far survived possible predation from lions, leopards, hyenas and human poachers

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Argentina Battles a Plague of Locusts, Surging After Mild Winters

Farmers and officials are racing to get massive swarms under control

Cu Rua photographed in 2011 during a health check

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Beloved Giant Turtle Dies, Leaving Only Three Alive on Earth

The recent death of Cu Rua pushes the Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle to the brink of extinction

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