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Mall rats aren't the only animals to be found in China's gigantic shopping centers.

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Chinese Malls Are Filled With Sad Animals

As cities spread, so do depressing mall zoos

The statue of Lenin where it formerly stood on the roof of the Red Square building on E Houston Street.

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A Statue of Lenin Has Finally Come Down from Red Square...in New York City

One of Manhattan’s strangest buildings has lost its mascot

Dwight Eisenhower and Arnold Palmer smile before a round of golf at the Gettysburg Country Club in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1960.

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How Arnold Palmer and President Eisenhower Made Golf the Post-War Pastime

The charismatic, working-class golfer and beloved president made golf the sport of elites and middle-class duffers for a generation

A 19th century illustration of the zodiacal constellation Ophiuchus.

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NASA Didn’t Change Your Astrological Sign, Blame It on Earth's Wobbly Rotation

Astrology is not a science

This photo by Girma Berta on Instagram helped win the photographer a $10,000 grant.

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Getty Instagram Grant Winners Document the Drama of the Everyday

From teen moms to slices of street life

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Watch Acoustic Holograms Create Complex Shapes and Levitate Droplets

These mesmarizing effects are created using only a plastic 3-D printed plate and speaker

Al Capone's criminal record in 1932. Despite a litany of charges, he ended up being nabbed for tax evasion.

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This Letter Tells What Al Capone Was Up to in Alcatraz

Two words: prison band

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New Movie Posters Turn Scientists Into Superheroes

The Center for Infectious Disease Research recasts the fight against disease in a series of movie and comic book-style posters

Alaska's yellow-cedar forests are slowly dying as climate change takes root.

Anthropocene

This Music Was Composed by Climate Change

Dying forests make magnificently melancholy listening

Celtic Shores, Nova Scotia.

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Canada Is Building a Trail That Measures Almost 15,000 Miles

In 2017, the world’s longest trail will finally be complete

Aboriginal rock art at Ubirr in Kakadu National Park.

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New DNA Analysis Shows Aboriginal Australians Are the World's Oldest Society

The group was the first to split after a single wave of migration out of Africa took place between 51,000 and 72,000 years ago, study shows

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Scientists Virtually Peek Inside Ancient Biblical Charred Scrolls

A completely burned Biblical text is now readable

A late-18th century painting of George and Martha Washington with their adoptive children, George Washington Parke Custis and Nelly Custis, as well as one of their slaves.

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George Washington’s Biracial Family Is Getting New Recognition

The National Park Service is finally acknowledging the first president’s biracial family

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Mexican Police Raid Sawmills to Protect Monarch Butterfly Habitat

Federal authorities closed down seven illegal logging operations near the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán

Ramazzottius varieornatus, the tardigrade examined in the study

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Water Bear Genes Could Help Protect Space Explorers From Radiation

A protein produced by tardigrades, a group of microscopic but hardy creatures, protects and repairs DNA damaged by X-rays

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Colombian Statue Heads Home After 80 Years

The slab figure disappeared from Colombia's National Musuem in 1939

A Hindu temple painted yellow.

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This Group Celebrates Kenya’s Religious Diversity by Painting Religious Centers Yellow

Painting for pluralism

A concept design for the completed Glenner Town Square.

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Fake Towns Could Help People With Alzheimer’s Live Happier Lives

Model towns meant to spark memories could help patients with dementia

How far would you go to spot a bird?

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Extreme Birdwatching Is a Thing, and This Could Be Its Greatest Year Ever

Thank El Niño for a Big Year that's bashing previous records

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Blind People Can Use Visual Areas of the Brain to Solve Math Problems

The brain is a highly adaptable organ

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