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You Can Visit This Australian Island, but Only if You Pledge to Skip the Wombat Selfie
The marsupials on Maria Island are so docile, tourism officials are asking the public to stop getting so close
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Five Events to Watch For as Germany Celebrates 100 Years of the Bauhaus Movement
Bauhaus 100 looks back—and forward—to the movement that united formal art and craftsmanship in functional, streamlined designs
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Humans and Dogs May Have Hunted Together in Prehistoric Jordan
Bones at a settlement called Shubayqa 6 show clear signs of having been digested—but were much too large to have been eaten by humans
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More Than Half of All Coffee Species Are at Risk of Extinction
The popular Arabica bean, used in such rich blends as Java, is amongst the species threatened by climate change, deforestation
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The Bahamas’ Conchs Have Undergone ‘Serial Depletion’
But it’s not too late to save them
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A Year Later, Match.com Profile Pays Off for World’s Loneliest Frog
The 2018 Valentine’s Day stunt raised funds for an expedition that located five new Sehuencas water frogs, including a mate for lonesome Romeo
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Scientists Use AI to Decode the Ultrasonic Language of Rodents
The DeepSqueak software translates the high-pitched communication into sonograms, which can be analyzed to determine what mice and rats are saying
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Antarctica’s Ice Loss Has Reached 250 Billion Tons Per Year
The continent’s annual ice loss has sextupled since 1979, jumping from 40 billion tons to 250 billion tons in 2017
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Possible Michelangelo Painting Disappears From a Belgian Church Days Before Authentication
Pastor Jan Van Raemdonck had observed similarities between the canvas and a 1538 sketch by the Old Master
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Alabama Judge Overturns Law That Protected Confederate Monuments
The city of Birmingham was sued when it erected plywood around a Confederate memorial in a downtown park
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Toto’s ‘Africa’ Will Play Forever—Or at Least Until the Next Windstorm—in the Namib Desert
An art installation is playing an endless loop of the 1982 earworm in an undisclosed location in the desert along Africa’s southwest coast
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‘Bouncing’ Baby Orca Spotted Among Endangered Population
Researchers hope the new baby will reverse an unfortunate trend that has seen no southern resident orca calves survive over the past three years
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Why the Nation of Georgia Wants to Make Wine on Mars
Researchers there are looking for grape varieties that can grow in Martian soil and survive high radiation and carbon monoxide
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Rome’s Mayor Says Coins Tossed Into Trevi Fountain Will Still Go to Poor
Controversy erupted earlier this week about who was getting the funds from the 18th-century masterpiece
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DNA Pioneer James Watson Loses Honorary Titles Over Racist Comments
The renowned scientist has a long history of controversial commentary on not only race, but issues spanning gender, religion and sexuality
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Restored Mughal Gardens Bloom Once More Along Agra’s Riverfront
Two of the 44 original historic gardens and structures have been rescued in an ambitious conservation project
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College Basketball Player Lends a Limb to Armless Roman Statue
The 6-foot-9 forward for North Carolina State University posed for a 3-D reconstruction of the sculpture’s missing arm
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Celebrate the Art of Scrapbooking With This New York Exhibition
The show at the Walther Collection Project Space features more than 20 volumes filled with quotidian images, scribbled notes and miscellaneous ephemera
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A Hawaiian Snail Named George, Believed to Be the Last of His Species, Has Died
His death highlights a larger concern: Scientists estimate that 90 percent of terrestrial snail diversity on the Hawaiian Islands has been lost
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Scientists Predict Sun Will One Day Turn Into Giant Crystal Ball
New observations of white dwarfs confirm theory that the star remnants transition into solid structures as they cool
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