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Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters

The Digital Einstein archive offers a look into the great physicist's writings

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy Rocket lifts off with the Orion spacecraft for its first test flight

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A Successful First Flight For NASA's Orion Spacecraft

American spaceflight enters a new era

A bleached coral reef

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Listen to the Sounds of a Dying Coral Reef

Healthy coral reefs produce a medley of sounds that ocean creatures use as homing beacons

A steel engraving of Walt Whitman in his 30s from the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855.

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Found in "Penny Papers" from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem

A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant

A humpback whale in waters off southern Oman.

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Humpback Whales in the Arabian Sea Have Been Isolated for 70,000 Years

Conservationists want this particular population of humpbacks to be classified as critically endangered

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Bats Have Specific Brains Cells for Tracking Their Location While in Flight

Humans likely carry the same kind of cells in our own brains

A hippopotamus named Linda takes her calf Reginald for a swim in a pool at Whipsnade Zoo. England, 1954.

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Let Wildlife Recordings From the 1930s Take You Back to Nature

Hear African wildlife from the 1930s with the British Library's nature sound archives

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Goodbye CAPTCHA: Just Click a Box to Prove You're Not a Robot

Google is getting rid of spam bots and annoying squiggly text at the same time

The Orion capsule idles on the pad atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket just minutes after the launch was canceled.

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A Wayward Boat And Other Disruptions Delay Test of NASA's Newest Spaceship

Orion's quest for space will have to wait until tomorrow

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A Worm’s Gut Could Help Dispose of Plastic Trash

Microbes found in the guts of waxworms like to feast on polyethylene

A historical altered photo showing a mushroom cloud over the United Nations and New York City waterfront

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Tour the Great Wide World of Mushroom Cloud Imagery

Nuclear testing yielded far more, and more diverse, images of mushroom clouds than those that are commonly shown

A natural gas storage tank at the Cenex oil refinery in Montana.

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The Fracking Boom Could Burn Out Decades Before It's Supposed To

Overenthusiastic shale gas estimates may be setting the world up for a fracking crash

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Half the Cells in This Mouse’s Brain Are Human

Researchers implanted immature human brain cells in mouse pups, which then grew and replaced nearly half the mice's own cells

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The Largest Manmade Block Ever Was Just Discovered in Lebanon

The block was never used, likely because it was too big to transport

A still under construction Orion space capsule at the Michoud Assembly Facility in 2012.

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Welcome to the Next Era of NASA Spaceflight...to Mars

NASA's long-distance crew capsule, Orion, will get its first test flight tomorrow

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Public Bathroom Bacteria: Not as Gross as You'd Think

Public restrooms are of no more of a health risk than your own home

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MIT Is Giving Its Students Bitcoin

Researchers interested in studying how people use Bitcoin are handing out $100 worth of the currency to whoever wants it

An engraving of "Mr. Garrick" as Richard III in a production of Shakespeare’s play

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Richard III’s DNA Analysis Reveals Cuckoldry in the Family

Researchers can trace the monarch’s maternal lineage to modern relatives, but not the male side

An artist's interpretation of HIV in the bloodstream

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HIV's Ability to Cause AIDS Is Weakening

A combination of advanced treatments and viral evolution are slowing virus’ reproduction

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Hollywood Asked for Freeway Noise Barriers First

It only makes sense that the problem of road noise cropped up in Los Angeles

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