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It’s called Space Fence and should help us track the estimated 500,000 pieces of debris that orbit Earth
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The designers and builders of Europe's great Gothic cathedrals weren't actually so innovative
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A blizzard hit the western open range, causing the “Great Die Up” and transforming America’s agricultural history
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Generations of monkeys had tried and failed a classic test of intelligence, but the fault may have been in the way humans thought of the test
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Marian Anderson performed as the fortuneteller Ulrica in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
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The 1918 flu pandemic gets all the headlines, but the malady is thought to have first appeared in the 16th century—and possibly earlier
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The Art of Saving a Life is connected to a fundraising effort for an international group working to eradicate disease through vaccinations
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A long-standing myth obscures the truth behind the Americanization of some European names
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Because the Earth is rotating more slowly than the tick of our atomic clocks, says the International Earth Rotation Service
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NASA has made a set of travel posters themed to exoplanets while a nonprofit searches for life among them
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In the quest to avoid being eaten, some fish took a leap into the open air
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The film inspired paleontologists to discover the truth about dinos, including whether raptors were social hunters
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A newly proven method can pinpoint the age of stars with at least 90% accuracy
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Two species of mosquitos have interbred, giving rise to hybrids that can resist the most potent weapons used against them
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Two famous inventors, one glass tube and a museum mystery
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It is only the 15th albino dolphin sighting recorded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Historians in Boston have just cracked open a brass box originally buried in 1795 by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams
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The rhinovirus that most commonly causes colds likes chillier temperatures, where the host's immune system doesn't fare so well
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Amateur explorers used ultra-high resolution satellite images to help search for the grave of one of the world’s most powerful rulers
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The mega Earth-mover is hard at work digging a coal mine in Russia
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