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The move is a first for bat species
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TESS will scan the skies in search of the next crop of exoplanets
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RIP, Willow
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'Black Panther' will be the first movie to be screened to mark the reopening of the country's cinemas
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The house he rented as a young officer is now boarded up and full of trash on the site of the former Michigan state fairgrounds
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The space rock is one of the largest ever to come in such close proximity to our planet
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The author wanted to transform 'The Fall of Gondolin' into a book, but never finished the text before his death
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Impurities in the diamonds could only have formed within a planet the size of Mercury or Mars
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The silver jewelry and coins date to the reign of King Harald Bluetooth and may have been deposited during his flight from Denmark
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Chattanooga confronts its history with a planned memorial to a young black man named Ed Johnson who was murdered by a white lynch mob in 1906
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Conditions are expected to be favorable, and experts say the shower might produce as many as 18 meteors every hour
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Smithsonian curator Dwandalyn Reece calls the award an important “recognition of the cultural, musical influence of hip-hop and rap"
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Parishioners at St. Michael's Church in Highgate hope to refurbish the crypt after identifying where exactly Coleridge's final resting place was
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Scientists recreated the process behind the formation's near-perfect hexagonal columns
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Open Heritage features 27 sites in 18 countries with more locations to be added in the future
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The discovery could provide insights about life in extreme environments, and help in the search for extraterrestrial life
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Stanley Kubrick and Octavia Butler are among the figures honored
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In 2013, nearly 1,400 of the normally solitary filter feeders had a party off the coast of southern New England
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Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered the largest assemblage of Meroitic inscriptions to date
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The 18-year-old lioness suddenly began growing a mane last year, baffling her caretakers
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