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Gamers Raise Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars a Year by Playing the Worst Video Game Ever Made

“Desert Bus” lets you undertake an eight-hour-long digital road trip in real time

An adult Rhodnius prolixus (kissing bug) on the right and large nymph on the left

Five Things to Know about Kissing Bugs and Chagas Disease

The disease-causing parasite spread by biting bugs has spread beyond the tropical world

Endurance was frozen in an ice floe for months before breaking free and sinking. Shackleton's men eventually used a lifeboat they called James Caird to go for help.

Relatives of Shackleton’s Chief Scientist Want to Finish What He Started

One hundred years after the doomed expedition, James Wordie's descendants plan a 100-mile journey to the South Pole

Georgetown University Is Trying to Purge Its Slave Trade Connections

Financed in part by the sale of 272 people, the school is grappling with its relationship to the institution of slavery

The Classic Coca-Cola Bottle Turns 100 Today

To this day, the shapely glass bottle defines the classic drink

Ships along the Mississippi River in New Orleans

Is $30 Million Enough to Save the Mississippi River Basin?

The USDA has a plan to help the troubled watershed

Does This Brooklyn Sculpture Say 'Oy'?

...or is it saying 'Yo'?

Soon, space miners could lay claim to minerals in asteroids like this one.

Get Your Pickaxe and Spacecraft Ready, Space Mining Might be Legal Very Soon

The new Space Act would open up the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining

Why Librarians Should Love Fallout 4

To survive this video game's nuclear wasteland, players need to return their library books

Manhattan Project Sites to Be Opened to the Public

Manhattan Project Historical Park will preserve three sites from the beginning of the Atomic Age

Amedeo Modigliani, "Nu Couché," 1917

This Is the Second-Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold At Auction

Amedeo Modigliani's Nu Couché drew a stunning $170.4 million

So Long Shamu Show

In the face of criticism, SeaWorld is retiring its controversial killer whale show

Whisky Grains and Coffee Grounds Could Help Clean up Nuclear Waste

Distilleries could soon be helping save the environment as they bottle up their next batch of brown

The Antares Spacecraft Explosion in Horrifyingly Beautiful Detail

New photos show the grim (yet beautiful) blast

NASA is Hiring Astronauts for Future Deep Space Missions

Do you want to head to Mars?

Seattle's Famous 'Gum Wall' Is Getting Scraped Clean

An estimated 1,000,000 pieces of chewing gum are stuck to the quirky attraction

The Russian Imperial Family, as photographed in 1911. The Russian Orthodox Church has not recognized the remains of Maria (second from left) and Alexei (second from right), despite DNA analysis.

Why Russia Is Digging Up The Bones of a 19th-Century Tsar

A new DNA analysis aims to end speculation about the last Romanovs—but hasn't the mystery already been solved?

Soldiers of the 44th Division at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in a gas mask drill. The experiments however, exposed troops to chemical weapons without such protection.

The Tragic Aftermath of Mustard Gas Experiments in World War II

An NPR investigation is looking for victims of the U.S. military tests

Soon, Guinness Will Be Vegan

The Irish brewery will no longer use fish bladders to make its beer

Saiga antelope with two calves at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Kalmykia, Russia

The Culprits Behind Mysterious Mass Antelope Deaths Finally Exposed

More than half of the world's endangered saiga antelopes died suddenly on the Central Asian steppes last spring

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