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The death of a captive rhino at the San Diego Zoo brings the species closer to imminent extinction
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An unprecedented engineering project sends water to China’s parched North
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Susceptibility to hangovers is partly due to genetics
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On the surface, killing wolves that kill sheep and cattle seems like a way to control predation, but the data paints a not-so-simple picture
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The maritime disaster was the worst in Bay Area history
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The pending budget will give NASA even more money than they asked for
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The Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York City houses some of the world's rarest books on the art of deception
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An investigation reveals practices in Mexican farm labor camps that resemble slavery
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The British Medical Journal's holiday issue includes an investigation of old magazines in waiting rooms and finds that men can be idiots
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America's Move Toward Concentrated Poverty
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The genomes of 45 birds contributed to the most in-depth bird evolutionary tree ever created
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A cool video raises the question: Why is most ice cloudy?
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Americans prioritize gun rights over gun control for the first time in at least 20 years
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If left unchecked, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill more people than cancer by 2050
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When one predator returns, another can be displaced
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The plan involves moving silt from upstream down into the delta—but no one knows if there's actually enough
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The harlequin filefish is a master of camoufalge
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Scientists produce the most detailed images of nerve endings ever made
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Geologic evidence supports historic accounts of the great "Kamikaze" of 1274 and 1281
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An eruption at the Pico do Fogo volcano has forced 1,200 people to evacuate
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