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The White House And Bill Nye Want You to Come Watch This Huge Asteroid Zip by Earth
The asteroid passes by tomorrow afternoon, and the White House has a pre-game show starting at 2 Eastern
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The Real Reasons Child Stars Lose Their Minds (According to Matilda’s Mara Wilson)
All the odds are stacked against you once you enter showbiz as a kid
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Scientists Just Found a Woolly Mammoth That Still Had Liquid Blood
From a frozen Siberian island, a well-preserved mammoth and some liquid mammoth blood
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Manchester United Is No Longer the Most Valuable Football (Sorry, Soccer) Brand
This year, Manchester United was dethroned by a team many Americans probably haven’t heard of: Bayern Munich
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What Happened to the Stromatolites, the Most Ancient Visible Lifeforms on Earth?
Stromatolites, or living layerd rocks, turned into thrombolites, or clotted stones, after a unicellular take-over
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Sloths Are Number One on the List of Illegally Traded Pets from Colombia
While Asian trade mostly stems from a desire for exotic meat and medicinal ingredients, in Colombia the pet trade rules the market
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How Companies Use Data To Hire, Fire and Promote
Companies are turning to data to help them hire new workers, and compare how their employees are doing
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Stiffening Arteries May Be at the Heart of ‘Senior Moments’
Stiffening arteries could cause bleeding in the brain
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The Gruesome ‘Atlas of Vertebrate Decay’ Does Have a Practical Purpose
Some of the earliest ancient vertebrates were too squishy to leave easily identifiable remains that lasted through millennia, so researchers are creating a rot look-book
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New Zealand Is in the Midst of a Five-Month-Long Earthquake
It’s a magnitude 7 earthquake, and it’s been rocking New Zealand’s capital since January
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Endangered Whales Are Being Sold as Dog Treats to Rich People in Japan
Luckily, it seems that many Tokyoites aren’t buying into the endangered treats, which sell at around $37 for 500 grams
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Lions are the king of the plains. Tigers rule the jungle. But face to face, which would win?
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One Ambitious Electric Car Venture Just Tanked, But Zero-Emissions Vehicles Aren’t Dead
Better Place burned through $850 million before crashing and burning, but the profitable Tesla just repaid its government loans nearly 10 years early
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We Fall Back on Habits, Good or Bad, When Stressed
Setting up healthy new habits, not controlling your behavior when stressed, may be the more effective way to cut back on eating or spending sprees
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How Two Retirees’ Amateur Archaeology Helped Throw Our View of Human History Into Turmoil
Through decades of excavation near their cottage Anton and Maria Chobot unearthed artifacts of the Clovis people
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This Woman Is a Hair-Style Archaeologist
Like a superhero of the coiffe, Janet Stephens spends her days as a regular hair dresser and her nights recreating the hairstyles of ancient Rome
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The Science Behind Teenager Grunts, Ughs and Duhs
A linguist and editor at The Week, turns monosyllabic grunts into long, fancy, science words
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Powerful Computers Are Piecing Together 1,000 Years of Jewish Chronicles
Hundreds of thousands of text fragments chronicle everything from marriage dowries to shopping lists to ancient religious texts
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Batten Down the Hatches: Another Bad Hurricane Season Is on Its Way
Forecasters are predicting a hurricane season even more active than last year’s
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Hong Kong Fell in Love With This Larger-Than-Life Rubber Duck
The popular 46-foot-tall inflatable art installation returns to Victoria Harbor
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