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Celebrate Halloween With These Unsettling Sounds From Outer Space
NASA’s new SoundCloud playlist captures the sounds of planets, comets and plasma waves
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Spiders Give You the Heebie Jeebies? You Might Be Born With That Fear
New research shows that even babies are creeped out by these wriggly critters
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A Short History of the Crosswalk
Pedestrian crosswalks and roads have a complicated relationship
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In Emotional Homecoming, Smithsonian Repatriates 24 Sets of Human Remains
Collected by an anthropologist in 1931, the National Museum of Natural History returned the bones to the village of Igiugig
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Reached Record High in 2016
World Meteorological Organization reports that current atmospheric CO2 concentrations are at their highest level in 800,000 years
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Thirty-Three Migratory Species Get New Protections
Among the newly protected creatures are lions, chimpanzees, giraffes and whale sharks
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Zombie Movies Are Never Really About Zombies
Zombies have offered a way to work out cultural fears about everything from race to climate change
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How New Printing Technology Gave Witches Their Familiar Silhouette
Popular media helped give witches their image
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Getting to the Roots of “Plant Horror”
From the serious—pod people—to the farcical—”feed me, feed me!”—this genre has produced some strange stuff
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Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency. What Does That Mean?
Critics say that his plan falls short of the drastic—and costly—effort required to effectively combat the crisis
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The Comic Artists Who Inspired Roy Lichtenstein Aren’t Too Thrilled About It
Lichtenstein’s use of comic art and styles made him one of America’s most famous pop artists, but some have comic artists have a bad taste in their mouths
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These Two Small Letters Heralded the Beginning of Online Communication
Their message is far more profound in retrospect than it was at the time
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Even Without Ears, Oysters Can Hear Our Noise Pollution
Study shows that certain frequencies of noise cause oysters to clam up
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Out-of-This-World Facts for International Observe the Moon Night
This Saturday, people around the world will be gazing up at the glowing orb in the sky
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Scientists Unearth Near-Complete Marine Reptile Fossil in India
Palaeontologists have unearthed the remains of an ichthyosaur, a prehistoric creature more frequently seen in North America and Europe
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Watch This RoboBee Surge From Water to Sky
Researcher hope that someday similar robots could help with everything from biological monitoring to search and rescue
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Are Viking Squirrels to Blame for Infecting England with Leprosy?
It’s possible, say researchers who found that medieval strains of the disease may have come to Great Britain in the rodents’ fur and meat
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The History of Mincemeat Pies, from the Crusades to Christmas
Mentioned by Shakespeare, allegedly banned by Puritans, and enjoyed by many still, these traditional treats have a long history in English cuisine
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This Ancient Skull May Have Belonged to The World’s Oldest Tsunami Victim
A new study says Papua New Guinea’s Aitape skull is from someone who died in a massive ocean wave 6,000 years ago
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Rare Mariner’s Astrolabe Found in Shipwreck Near Oman
Contrary to some reports, it may not be the earliest-known marine navigational tool—but it’s still a spectacular find
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