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Watch NASA’s Next Mars Orbiter Be Put Together, Piece by Piece
This time lapse video shows the assembly of NASA's next Mars orbiter, MAVEN
Meet the People who Make Your Globes
It turns out the process of making high end globes is both fascinating and beautiful
Watch This Woman Slowly Transform From Toddler to Elderly Woman
The idea behind Danielle, who is based on a real person, is "that something is happening but you can't see it but you can feel it, like aging itself"
Modern Materials Make Houses Burn More Quickly
What used to take half an hour now lasts mere minues
Will Women Ever Overtake Men in Endurance Events?
When it comes to super long distances, women are catching up to men
Here’s What We Thought Earth Would Look Like from Space
Before we actually went to space, we had some ideas about what Earth might look like
233,000 Gallons of Molasses Spilled in Hawaii, Killing Everything
This might sound like the beginning of a cartoon, but it's not. Molasses is bad for wildlife, and the officials are dealing with an environmental disaster
Australia’s New Prime Minister Thinks Climate Science Is “Highly Contentious”
Tony Abbott's Liberal campaign slogan of "Chose real change" may turn out to be unsettlingly on the mark
Valley Fever: The Fungal Spores that Plague Archaeologists
When you spend your time digging in dirt, you get exposed to all sorts of nasty spores
This Is Why Your Converse Sneakers Have Felt on the Bottom
Felt on your sneakers is there not for function, but for economics - shoes with fuzzy soles are taxed less when imported than those with rubber ones
An Assassin’s Bullet Took Three Years to Kill NYC Mayor William Jay Gaynor
Gaynor collapsed and died from a bullet that had been lodged in his throat for three years - put there by an eventually successful assassin
Nobody Knows How to Interpret This Doomsday Stonehenge in Georgia
We know where they are and what they say, but everything else is all hotly debated
Watch As Taxonomists Painstakingly Clean And Assemble a Bat Skeleton
This is basically an Apple commercial for bat preservation
Yes, Astronauts Are Afraid to Go to Space
Actual astronauts never seem afraid to piece the atmosphere and plunge into the icy depths beyond our planet, but they are
INTERPOL Is After “the Snake,” a Notorious Illegal Fishing Vessel
Norway requested that INTERPOL bestow the Snake with a Purple Notice, information-gathering the agency uses to compile details on criminal activities
A 1928 Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary May Be the First Official Record of “Meh”
The term “meh,” defined as “an expression of indifference or boredom,” entered the Collins English Dictionary in 2008
Build Your Very Own Incredible, Wind-Powered Creature
Your next rainy day, you now have no excuse to be bored. You're welcome
For $100,000, You Can Have the Most Valuable Pokemon Card Ever
This is by far the most anyone has asked for a trading card like this
These Beautiful 16th Century Watercolors Illustrate the History of Comets And Meteors
Today, studying comets and meteors involves billions of dollars worth of equipment and teams from all over the world
The Conflict in Syria Is Damaging the Country’s Historic Sites
The ongoing fighting in Syria is devastating irreplaceable artifacts
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