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California’s Bunny Museum Hops to a New Home

The previous location could not contain the museum’s 33,000 “artifacts”

This Adopt-A-Highway sign is located on the Florida Keys Scenic Highway. The program, which began in Texas, is now used by states across the country.

Two States Have Gone to Court to Keep the KKK From Adopting a Highway

In 2016, Georgia’s Department of Transportation actually put the program on hold so it wouldn’t have to respond to the hate group’s application

This Berlin man will soon have access to 13 bike superhighways.

Cool Finds

Germans Invented the Autobahn. Now They’re Building a Superhighway for Bikes

A cyclist’s dream will soon be reality in Berlin

A reconstruction from the 3,700-year-old remains of Ava, a woman unearthed in the Scottish Highlands

Pollens Found in Grave of Bronze Age Woman Paint Picture of Bygone Scotland

But do they shed light on the mystery of the woman’s death?

A Messerschmitt Bf 109. This is a Spanish-built version of the plane, licensed from Messerschmitt AG.

14-Year-Old Boy Discovers Remains of German Fighter Plane and Its Pilot

Daniel Rom Kristiansen was learning about WWII in school when he decided to look for a lost warplane

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Cool Finds

Why (Part of) the International Space Station Will Soon Be the Coldest Place in the Universe

An icebox-like lab will help scientists get a grip on a phenomenon that’s hard to spot on Earth

First image from NASA's Geostationary Lightning Tracker

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Next-Gen Lightning Tracker Photographs Storms From Space in Stunning Detail

Part of the GOES-16 weather satellite, the geosynchronous imager promises to improve storm detection and reveal the secrets of thunderbolts

True's Beaked Whale

New Research

See the First Video of One of the World’s Rarest Whales

The 46 second clip of several True’s beaked whales was taken by students and teachers on a field trip in the Azore Islands in 2013

No images of Casor survive to the present day. Tobacco fields like this one, however, would have been what he saw daily.

The Horrible Fate of John Casor, The First Black Man to be Declared Slave for Life in America

Black people in early America weren’t slaves. After this lawsuit, they could be

A portrait of Fanny Mendelssohn, by her husband Wilhelm Hensel.

Sonata by Fanny Mendelssohn, Mistakenly Attributed to Her Brother, Premieres Under Her Name

The Royal College of London performed the Easter Sonata in honor of International Women’s Day

Portrait of women shirtwaist strikers holding copies of "The Call," a socialist newspaper, in 1910

The American Garment Workers Who Helped Inspire International Women’s Day

Jobs in the garment industry were some of the first to empower women in the industrial workforce

The beach at Naples, Florida.

Is This the Happiest Place in America?

For the second time in a row, Gallup-Healthways ranked this Florida city first for overall well-being

A close call at Lake Oroville raises questions about the safety of America's dams.

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Failure at One of These 15,000 American Dams Would Be Fatal

A quiet crisis is afoot as the nation’s infrastructure ages

The late justice's papers will be housed at Harvard Law.

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Antonin Scalia’s Papers Find a Home at Harvard Law

The Supreme Court justice left behind a substantial legal and archival legacy

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What Killed More Than Half a Dozen of the Bahamas’ Swimming Pigs?

Drought and sand-tainted snacks might be the reason for the recent deaths

A child stands in the Côte d’Ivoire charcoal yard where his mother works.

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WHO Warns That Pollution Is Killing Millions of Children

New reports say that one in four deaths of young people under the age of five can be attributed to the environment

Abigail and John Adams's letters to each other show a rare marriage of equals, historians say.

The Letters of Abigail and John Adams Show Their Mutual Respect

We still have 1,160 of their letters, written across the years of their marriage

Grey Gardens in East Hampton, NY

Grey Gardens Estate Is on the Market for $20 Million

All feline tenants have been evicted

The story of how DNA's structure was discovered is a typical scientific story of generations of research building on one another.

Here Are All The Discoveries That Had To Happen Before Two Scientists Could Find DNA’s Structure

Watson and Crick weren’t the only ones working on the problems of humanity’s genes, by a long shot

Long before sugary breakfast cereals were a normal morning fare, there was Granula.

The First Breakfast Cereal, Granula, Had to Be Soaked Before Being Eaten

Invented by a doctor and health reformer, the brittle cakes were not an instant success

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