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How a brainless, single-celled organism created a startlingly efficient route map for U.S. highways
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Fracking is just the latest cause to make the news for its link to quakes
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Atlanticus Pokemon, er, Sea Slug: What is this far-fetched ocean creature and why is it so poisonous?
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If you can fight your way through the dirt storms of Madelia, Minnesota, you may be able to find the future of renewable energy
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Forty years after the release of the groundbreaking study, were the concerns about overpopulation and the environment correct?
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Computer analysis of satellite imagery has revealed what could be a record number of archaeological sites
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To protect their hive from an invading hornet, Asian honeybees gang up and surround it, forming a "hot defensive bee ball"
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An astrophysicist and an economist want to fix our clocks and our calendars
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Dennis Meadows thinks so. Forty years after his book The Limits to Growth, he explains why
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One explosion raised a barn roof several feet in the air and blew the hog farmer 30 or 40 feet from the door
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For outdoor ice rinks, hockey season has gotten shorter in the past 50 years
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Pine and spruce trees managed to survive in certain spots in Scandinavia, according to DNA analyses
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Four years ago this week, researchers opened the "Doomsday Vault" to store frozen seeds in case of disaster
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Baghdad was the bustling capital of the vast Islamic Empire a thousand years ago, when the city's climate was much different than today
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The petroglyph, with a head, hands and "oversized phallus" is around 10,000 years old
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As far as the microwaves were concerned, the 7-inch-long tube did not exist -- is true invisibility that far away?
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Browse through the winning images that turn scientific exploration into art
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Volcanologists thought that the buildup to an eruption would take centuries. But this report adds to a suspicion that it can happen faster than expected
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As part of her plan to prepare Americans for the next "big one," the seismologist tackles the dangerous phenomenon of denial
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Recent solar storms have triggered northern lights of unprecedented color and intensity
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