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What Did You Do in College? These Students Discovered a Planet

That’s right. These three undergraduates from Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a planet, and not just any old planet

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Why Is Minnesota’s Recount Doomed?

Charles Seife wrote an op-ed for yesterday’s New York Times about the recount in Minnesota, which seems like it ought to be a simple problem but isn’t

Picture of the Week—Diatoms or Modern Art?

Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, England won the 2008 Nikon Small world Photomicrography Competition earlier this year with the image below

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Dinosaur Death Trap

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Smithsonian Says Goodbye to Odetta

A look back on the performer’s life

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Primatologist’s Prison Sentence Commuted

Primatologist and Amazon adventurer Marc van Roosmalen was convicted last year in Brazil of illegal wildlife trafficking and theft of government property

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The Dinosaur Vanishes

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The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo

In 1904, several Pygmies were brought to live in the anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair

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The Mystery of the Missing Acorns

I was surprised to read in the Washington Post yesterday that oak trees from northern Virginia to Nova Scotia failed to produce any acorns this year

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