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How Agent Orange Turned This American Small Town Into a Toxic Waste-Ridden Deathtrap
“Walking into the houses, many of them were like people had just simply stood up, walked out and never come back”
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A Japanese Fleet Killed Over 300 Whales This Season
The creatures were supposedly collected for the sake of research
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National Park Service Seeks Public Help in Death Valley Fossil Theft
Fossilized footprints, which had been left in a lakebed by ancient mammals and birds, have been swiped
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WWII Marine Buried at Arlington, 73 Years After His Death
Harry K. Tye’s body went missing after the 1943 Battle of Tarawa. Decades later, his remains were discovered and returned home.
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Gold Miners Kept Their Sourdough Starters Alive By Cuddling Them
San Francisco-area miners used sourdough starters as a replacement for commercial leavening agents
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Nanocars Will Race Across (a Very, Very Tiny Bit of) France
Ladies and gentlemen, start your molecules
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Researchers Spot Giant, Deep-Sea Octopus Munching on an Unusual Snack
The cephalopod was chowing down on a jellyfish—long thought unimportant in the food web
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The Campaign Is On to Save the Natural History Collections of a Louisiana University
The school is displacing millions of specimens in favor of a new track
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Happy Birthday to the Modern Pencil
The patent for this supremely convenient invention didn’t last long
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This ‘Brilliant’ Pioneering Psychologist Never Got a Ph.D….Technically
Despite “the most brilliant examination” Harvard had ever seen, the school didn’t grant degrees to women at the time
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Corrosion Could Bring a Premature End to This Legendary Ship
New report sounds the alarm on the RMS Queen Mary
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Watch a Baby Bald Eagle Hatch in Real Time
Things are getting serious for the world’s most famous bald eagles
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What Kind of Art is the Most Popular?
It’s not always in museums—and historic name recognition is starting to matter less
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Museum Devoted to Camille Claudel, Long Overshadowed by Rodin, Opens in France
Her work has long been obscured by her dramatic personal life
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New Device Allows Paralyzed Man to Move His Arm With His Mind
The brain implant bypasses the patient’s injured spinal cord, allowing him to eat and drink on his own
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NASA Launches the Galaxy’s Most Glorious Space Database
Now you can easily peruse more than 140,000 of the agency’s photos, videos and visualizations
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U.S. Heroin Use Has Risen Dramatically Since 2001
White males under 45 are most likely to report using the drug
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Coca-Cola’s Creator Said the Drink Would Make You Smarter
Like the wine and cocaine drink that preceded it, Coca-Cola was first marketed as a brain tonic
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Norway Proposes World’s First Mile-Long Tunnel for Ships
The tunnel would help ships and ferries avoid rough seas around the Stadlandet Peninsula where 33 people have died since World War II
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