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Would You Live in an Antarctic Penguin Post Office?

Applications soar at post office in Port Lockroy, Antarctica

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Adultery Is Now Legal in South Korea

62 years after the passage of a morality law, spouses can’t be prosecuted for extramarital affairs

A rover developed by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and considered for use in the early 1970s, not a moon race competitor

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Forget the Race to the Moon. These Rovers Will Race on the Moon.

It's going to be a pretty slow race, however

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Amsterdam Is Out of Bike Parking

The city will create 40,000 new bike parking spaces by 2030

A man walks on a tight rope in the remote mountain village of Tsovkra-1.

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The Russian Village Entirely Populated by Tightrope Walkers

The circus-skill tradition goes back so far in tiny Tsovkra-1 that no one knows quite how or why it started—but it may end before long

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See the Winter of Our Discontent…From Space

NASA photo of the eastern United States confirms it’s really, really cold out there

Row houses in the historic Pullman neighborhood of Chicago

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President Obama Announces a Trio of New National Monuments

The sites include a historic neighborhood in Chicago, a former internment camp in Hawaii and a canyon in Colorado

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2014 Was National Parks’ Most-Visited Year Ever

Last year broke records with over 292 million visits

Climbers in the Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest.

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Everest Climbers Now Prohibited From Taking One Deadly Route

Nepal announces that the Khumbu Icefall, where 16 sherpa were killed last year, is now off-limits

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Only 1 in 4 Americans Would Take a Free Space Flight

Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel

Robert Sorlie and his team during the 2005 Iditarod race

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Lack of Snow Forced the Iditarod to Move Its Track

Instead of starting in Willow, Alaska, this year, the race will start 300 miles north in Fairbanks

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Tourist Trash Has Changed the Color of Yellowstone’s Morning Glory Pool

Researchers have found proof of what caused a hot spring’s drastic color modification—it's people, of course

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These Bells Play Seismic Shifts

Watch as UC Berkeley’s bells play the earth’s “natural frequencies”

Cards Against Humanity now owns a private island in Maine.

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Cards Against Humanity Has a Private Island

“Hawaii 2” started as a joke, turned into an island owned by the card game and licensed to its players

Hikers in the North Cascade mountains of Washington, on the Pacific Crest Trail

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The Pacific Crest Trail Is So Popular It Needs a New Permit System

Only 50 people per day will be allowed to start thru-hikes from the southern terminus

The USSR is alive and well in a bunker in Lithuania.

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This Fake Gulag Will Let You Pretend the Soviets Are Still in Power

Barking dogs, harsh guards and brutal imprisonment in a bunker where the USSR never fell

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The Taj Mahal Gardens Have a Special Relationship to the Solstice

On the day the sun climbs the highest in the sky, careful alignments within the gardens and buildings of the beautiful mausoleum appear

Yosemite National Parks "carnivore crew" spotted this rare Sierra Nevada red fox with a motion-sensitive camera.

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For the First Time in Almost a Century, a Rare Red Fox Was Seen at Yosemite

Cameras and “hair snares” could preserve a threatened Sierra species

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Two Climbers Made It Up El Capitan Via an Impossibly Vertical Wall

It took just three weeks for Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgensen to make free-climbing history

One of many abstract images of the Moon collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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These Photos From a Lunar Orbiter Could Be Abstract Art

Our distant view of the Moon from Earth is nice, but these close-ups are amazing

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