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The Russian Government Once Funded a Scientist’s Quest To Make an Ape-Human Hybrid

In 1926, a famed Russian biologist was “hell-bent” on creating an ape-human hybrid

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These Models Probably Never Thought They’d Be Shooting Fashion Photos With Whale Sharks

A journalist and a photographer juxtaposed beautiful women with whale sharks in order to raise awareness about the species’ plight

Dungeons & Dragons Is So Classic It Now Has Its Own Digital Archive

Guides and books from the past 40 years of Dungeons and Dragons are to be preserved online

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Sweet Potato Genes Say Polynesians, Not Europeans, Spread the Tubers Across the Pacific

Sweet potato samples preserved in centuries-old herbariums indicate that Polynesian sailors introduced the yam across Southeast Asia and the Pacific

A Thai enforcement officer with one of the shocked, rescued babies.

Bag Full of Otters Recovered at Thai Airport

Eleven live otters turned up in a scanned bagged that someone had abandoned at the oversized luggage area of Bangkok’s airport

In 1974, Someone Ordered a Pizza With a Computer for the First Time

Here, witness a key moment in digital delivery: the first pizza ever ordered with a computer

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Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad for You

Here’s why you should pretty much never clean inside your ears

Here’s Why It Is Really, Really Cold Out

Blame this increasingly-common form of Arctic circulation for today’s frigid weather

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Raw Meat Meets 3D Printing

A bio-cartridge “prints” living cells, one on top of the next, and they naturally fuse to form muscle tissue

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Rare Spider Hides Out in London Cemetery Vaults for 150 Years

Around 100 spiders turned up in the tombs, some of which date back to the 1830s

Mercury is a liquid in its pure form.

After Millennia of Heavy Use, Mercury Gets the Boot

From an Elixir of Life to the Philosopher’s Stone, mercury’s long legacy is coming close to an end

Geneticist Does Not Seek Woman to Give Birth to Cloned Caveman Baby

Geneticist says he’s extracted enough DNA from Neanderthal fossils to create an embryo, but lacking a uterus himself he needs to find the right lady

Two men reenact Roman military life in Split, Croatia.

In Ancient Rome, Children’s Shoes Were a Status Symbol

From a trove of ancient Roman footwear, a rethinking of military life

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Scientists Don’t Quite Know How This Cat Managed Her 200-Mile Trek Home

Holly the cat’s 200 mile journey home has scientists wondering just how animals navigate

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We’re Better at Remembering Facebook Statuses Than Book Lines

Turns out, the average person is far more likely to remember a Facebook status than they are a painstakingly edited sentence from a book

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Doctors Say: Seriously, Get a Flu Shot

Let’s review the excuses. (Spoiler: None of them are good.)

Kickstarter Works Best for Game Designers

Games raised the most total money, over $80 million, on the crowd-funding site last year

In Europe, These People Wouldn’t Be Allowed To Drive

A recent study found that drivers with blind spots were more likely to hit pedestrians and less able to respond to hazardous situations

The NASA team assembling Curiosity back in 2011.

NASA’s Curiosity Team Gives Us a Geeky Reason To Go to the Inauguration Parade

Although the rover itself could not make the trip from Mars, a full-size model will roll in the parade alongside the real-life crew

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Sea Cows Used To Walk on Land in Africa And Jamaica

Until now, paleontologists have drawn a blank on the evolutionary link between the manatee’s African and Jamaican relatives

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