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How Angry AI Will Train Telemarketers to Handle Angry Real People

The robot apocalypse will come with the howling fury of an angry customer service call.

Mysterious Shipwreck Reveals how the Spanish Built Their Boats

Search for Captain Morgan’s fleet turns up treasure trove of Spanish cargo

How Feral Donkeys Saved a Lost Hiker’s Life in Death Valley

But not everyone loves shaggy wild donkeys

Scientists Flew a Jet Plane Into a Thunderstorm to Study Antimatter

They got a little too close and saw something unexpected

Here's How Video Game Designers Give Voices to Imaginary Creatures

All they need are digital vocal cords, voice box and mouth

European Bison (Bison bonasus) at Prioksko-Terrasnyy Reserve in Russia

Europe Once Had Bison, and now They're Making a Comeback

Just like their American cousins, the bison needed help after their numbers were decimated by habitat loss and hunting

Rhodiola rosea

Alaska is Growing a Plant the Soviet Military Used in Secret Experiments

Golden root, or Rhodiola rosea, is also popular in Siberian folk medicine

How Do You Figure out Where the Very Center of the United States Is?

Three different places have laid claim to the title since 1901.

An archeologist from Inrap excavates a mass grave below a supermarket in Paris

Scientists Investigate a Medieval Mass Grave Under a French Supermarket

Renovation work uncovered hundreds of individuals, perhaps all killed by disease at the same time

The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial museum.

This Company is Turning Holocaust Survivor Interviews into Holograms

Researchers are using new technology to keep Holocaust testimonies alive

How Snow Keeps the World’s Most Powerful Space Telescope Squeaky Clean

CO2 snowflakes are being tested for use with Hubble’s successor

Watch the Sun Set on Mars

Curiosity takes its first color pictures of a Martian sunset

The South Portico of the White House, around 1950, during Truman's rennovation

The White House is Mostly a Reconstruction of the Original

The mansion may have been built over 200 years ago, but its skeleton was redone in the early 1950s

Archivists Are Uncovering Lost Mark Twain Stories

Digital archives reveal Samuel Clemens, struggling journalist

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This Spider Feeds Her Babies by Vomiting up Her Own Guts

Nothing says love like feeding your intestines to your children

‘Captain Kidd’s Treasure’ Has Finally Been Discovered

Archaeologist hope their discovery of a 121-pound bar of silver is just the beginning

Dogs are Still the Best Way to Find a Corpse

Man’s best friend is better than any machine when it comes to finding dead bodies.

Seventy Years Ago Today, Queen Elizabeth Secretly Partied with Commoners

Before she became Elizabeth II, the then-princess slipped into London's streets incognito to celebrate Europe's victory over Germany

Armor from the Old Arsenal Museum (Altes Zeughaus) in Solothurn, Switzerland

Here’s How to Fight Wearing 15th Century Armor

Experts demonstrate some moves in a video while wearing full suits of plate armor

A drawing by explorer John Cleves as he mapped the northern poles.

John Quincy Adams Was an Ardent Supporter of Exploration

The president planned to fund an expedition to the South Pole and South Pacific, but the research trip was canceled by his successor, Andrew Jackson

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