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A Single Video Game Character Can Cost Around $80,000 To Make

It takes money to make money.

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Earth is Home to 3.02 Trillion Trees

That’s a few more than expected

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Here's What Our Future World Might Look Like

A warmer planet would favor fast-growing tropical trees and oceans full of algae but a lack of biodiversity

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Is the Appalachian Trail Getting too Crowded?

Movies and books bring popularity to the long trails in the U.S. and concerns over the trails’ health

Ariel view of the Port of Galveston in 2008

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An 1830s Steamship From the Texas Navy May Be Buried Near Galveston Harbor

Author Clive Cussler first discovered the wreckage in 1986, now the port’s expansion forces an archeological excavation

Ice patches that normally persist through the summer are melting in Yellowstone National Park.

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Melting Ice in Yellowstone is Revealing Ancient Artifacts Faster Than Researchers Can Handle

The tools, spears and even baskets from ancient Native Americans are emerging faster than archeologists can collect them

Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. de Carlotto’s grandson was recovered 36 years after he was abducted and adopted by another family.

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Argentinian Grandmothers Are Using DNA to Track Down Stolen Children

A national genetic bank and novel identification techniques have helped identify over 100 children abducted during Argentina’s “Dirty War”

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90 Percent of Seabirds Have Eaten Plastic

And plastic pollution will threaten even more birds as production grows

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One Japanese Company Makes Half Of The World’s Zippers

How YKK came to dominate pants around the world.

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Here’s How Victorians “Photoshopped” Photos

Early photographers used pencils to touch up photographic plates — and the results look pretty freaky

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Google’s Driverless Car Got Confused By A Cyclist

It just wants to protect soft, perishable humans.

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Comedy Group Wants To Build a Wall To Keep Burners out of the Bay Area

The ban would apply to people armed with glowsticks and art cars alike.

An 1885 illustration shows bodies being thrown into a pit during the Great Plague of 1655. Now, new research is turning this image on its head.

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See How the Plague Swept Through London

New research shows that during mass burials, bodies were given more respect than previously thought

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Legendary Nazi Gold Train Might Exist After All

Polish culture minister is “99 percent sure” the train has been found

A Bloody served in a bar, loaded with goodies and with a beer chaser.

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The History of the Bloody Mary Meat Straw

The straw is one potential upgrade to drink known for its penchant for carrying a little extra protein, among other things

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Pigs Aren't Quite as Domesticated as People Once Thought

Researchers partially unravel the complexity of domesticated swine genetics

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Scientists Invented Ice Cream That Doesn’t Melt as Fast

It involves a protein that some bacteria use as a kind of protectant coating

This Japanese toilet takes flushing to another level.

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A Toilet Museum is Opening in Japan

It’s a love story to the lavatory

Visitors get a load of a blooming corpse flower in Basel, Switzerland in 2013. A similar flower failed to launch in Chicago this weekend.

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Chicago’s Corpse Flower Is Kind of a Disappointment

After failing to bloom as planned, horticulturists had to force "Spike" open

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Denali, Ongtupqa, and Other Native American Names for Landmarks

Mount McKinley was recently renamed Denali, but it's not the only one with a Native American name

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