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This Comedy Club Charges By the Laugh

In Barcelona, a comedy club is keeping tabs on its patrons' laughs with facial recognition technology

Photograph of Robert E Lee's Arlington house taken in 1861

Rare Photo of Robert E. Lee's Slave Acquired by National Park Service

The photograph of Selina Gray and her children sold on eBay for $700

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Instead of Growing Meat in a Lab, Why Not Make It Out of Plants?

"Plant blood" is the secret behind the I-can't-believe-it-isn't-meat company, Impossible Foods

Satellite image of New Zealand

Here's One Very Good Reason to Drill Deep Into an Active Fault

Scienctists hope to install instruments at the fault to observe changes in the earth at depth

Why Is Antarctic Sea Ice at a 35-Year High?

Nobody really knows, but they have some thoughts

More Americans Speak Arabic at Home Than Italian or Polish

21 percent of Americans speak another language at home

Google Maps an Oasis in the Desert From the Back of a Camel

The desert is not the best place for a Street View car

One of the approximately 14,000 year old coprolites found at Paisley Caves

Paisley Caves Added to National Register Of Historic Places

One of the earliest sites of evidence for human occupation of North America

In Norway, 12-year-old Thea has become the poster girl for putting an end to child marriage around the world.

The Fake Story of a Blond Child Bride Made This the Most Visited Blog in Norway

The campaign is meant to increase awareness and also is seeking sponsors of individual girls

Replicas of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria sail Past Cape Canaveral in 1992

Shipwreck Probably Not Santa Maria

Shipwreck found off the coast of Haiti is probably not Santa Maria

People Will Give Away Their Personal Information for an Actual Cookie

I'll take two oatmeal raisin and a high risk of identity theft

Some Surgery Is No Better Than Sham “Placebo” Surgery

The placebo effect isn't just for pills

Do We Doodle Because We Speak?

Scribbling and sketching aren’t just practices to idle time away, but a more fundamental indication of our need for language

Space shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless floats in space

How the Isolation of Space Messes with Your Mind

Long-term missions must deal with hallucinations, boredom and the silent treatment between crew members

For the time being, at least, the lands near the Grand Canyon will not be converted into something resembling this uranium mine in New Mexico.

The Grand Canyon Will Not Be Mined for Uranium

Uranium mining will be banned for the next 20 years on nearly 1 million acres of land near the Grand Canyon

A herd of wild ass runs across the Tibetan plateau in Qinghai

The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors

The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes

A bowhead whale breaches

Whaler Makes History as the First Female in Her Community to Harpoon a Whale

The 31-year old struck the whale near the end of the fall season for Alaska's bowhead subsistence hunters

Don't do this.

What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?

A lifetime of chronic health issues

One Human Year Does Not Equal Seven Dog Years

No one knows where the dog years myth came from, but experts agree that it's simply not true

The Only Primate With a Toxic Bite Might Have Evolved to Mimic Cobras

Slow lorises have snake-like markings, postures and a hiss that all resemble the speckled cobra

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