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Northern California Cuts Power to 700,000 Homes and Businesses in an Effort to Prevent Fires
In an unprecedented move intended to reduce fire risk, power will be purposefully cut in 34 California counties, an outage that may last up to a week
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New Monument in the Vatican Encourages Compassion for Refugees
‘We have all come from another place,’ says artist Timothy P. Schmalz
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Three Win Physics Nobel for Showing Our Place in the Cosmos
Half goes to cosmologist James Peebles for work on cosmic background and dark matter and half goes to the team that discovered the first exoplanet
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Art by Congo, the Famous Painting Ape, to Go on Sale
Picasso, Miro and others bought the abstract paintings of Congo, who starred in the 1950s show ‘Zoo Time’
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The World’s First Travel Guide Is Set to Go on View in London
The 1486 text features panoramic illustrations of Jerusalem, Venice and other sites across the Mediterranean region
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Holly Cow! Fattest Bear of Them All Claims Coveted Title
For #FatBearWeek2019, the furever fabulous 435 Holly reigns triumphant
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Researchers Discovered 20 Tiny New Moons Circling Saturn
The ringed planet now takes Jupiter’s title for the planet with the most moons
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On an Active Volcano, a Northern Fur Seal Population Is Booming
Scientists estimate that there were 36,000 pups on Bogoslof Island this year—up from around 28,000 in 2015
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Queens Museum Brings Rube Goldberg Machine to Life
To celebrate an exhibition of the cartoonist and hometown hero, curators commissioned one of Rube’s overly complicated gadgets
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This Interactive Map Shows Fall Foliage Predictions Across the U.S.
The tool will help cross-country travelers in search of colorful leaves
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Three medical scientists will share the award for further explaining how the body responds to oxygen abundance
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Tiny Stone Tools Show Humans Hunted in the Rainforest 45,000 Years Ago
A ‘toolkit’ found in Sri Lanka adds to growing evidence that early humans inhabited many ecosystems, not just open grasslands
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Six Elephants Die After Plummeting Down a Waterfall in Thailand
It is believed that five adults lost their lives while trying to save a calf
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New Report Finds at Least One in Five Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Are Traded Globally
The research team also predicts increased trade going forward
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A Farewell to Ming, the Siberian-Bengal Tiger Who Spent Three Years in a Harlem Apartment
Antoine Yates, Ming’s owner, once said that the tiger was his ‘only friend, really’
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A New Statue in Times Square Challenges the Symbolism of Confederate Monuments
The work by artist Kehinde Wiley will soon be moved to Richmond, Virginia, not far from a street lined with controversial Civil War memorials
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New Organic Compounds Found in Plumes From Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus
Analysis of data from the late, great Cassini spacecraft reveals the moon is spurting oxygen and nitrogen-bearing organic compounds into space
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Light Billions of Times Brighter Than the Sun Used to Read Charred Scrolls From Herculaneum
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. carbonized papyrus scrolls, which may now be readable
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Thieves Return Hand Stolen From Montreal Totem Pole, With an Apology Note
‘After we realized what [the artwork] stood for and represented for so many people, we immediately felt sick to our stomach,’ the letter reads
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Man Discovers Original D-Day Dispatch Audiotape in Basement
The tape and several other recordings have since been donated to the National D-Day Memorial
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