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An Artist Blanketed Bogota’s Bolívar Square With the Names of Victims of Colombia’s Civil War
Remembering the dead as the country struggles to make peace
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China Now Has a 20th-Century Architectural Heritage List
A country with an uneasy relationship to its past will preserve 98 buildings of the 20th century for future generations
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Five Things to Know About the Schiaparelli Probe Heading for a Touchdown on Mars
A lot is riding on the European Space Agency’s first Mars lander
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Reach Out And Touch This Version of Klimt’s “Kiss”
A 3-D printed version of the classic painting lets blind people appreciate the artwork
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New Art Exhibition Celebrates 5,000 Years of Syria’s History
Syria is more than just a refugee crisis
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Scientists Are Creating an Atlas of Human Cells
The Human Cell Atlas will boldly go where science, surprisingly, hasn’t gone before
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Craters Are Forming on the Moon Faster Than Anyone Predicted
New research digs into the changes on the pockmarked lunar surface
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There Are Ten Times as Many Galaxies as Previously Thought
By these latest estimates, two trillion galaxies are scattered throughout the vast universe
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China Will Finally Release the Last Tiananmen Square Prisoner
Miao Deshun has been in prison for the majority of his life
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Did the Greeks Help Sculpt China’s Terra Cotta Warriors?
New analysis and DNA evidence suggests the 8,000 life-sized figures in emperor Qin Shi Huang’s necropolis owe their inspiration to the Greeks
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What to Know Now That the King of Thailand Has Died
Political uncertainty and potential unrest follows the death of the beloved Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Commercial Modules Are Coming to the International Space Station. But You Can’t Visit Anytime Soon
Small, slow steps for private spaceflight
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Antarctic Fossil Suggests Ancient Birds Honked Not Sang
Recent analysis of two fossils provides the first evidence of ancient noisemakers
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Five Things to Know About Bob Dylan
When it comes to awards, the times are a’ changin’—and now the iconic musician is a Nobel laureate
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Many of NASA’s Recent Successes Actually Date Back to the Bush Administration
Some leaps, launches and grand plans for the future
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Discover One of History’s Most Ambitious Maps
Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map was the oldest document to use “America” to describe the body of land between Africa and Asia
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It’s 2016. Here’s How Hungry the World Is
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Say Hello to Our Solar System’s Newest Dwarf Planet
Spotting the dwarf planet could help in the search for Planet Nine
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Capsules Reveal Once Highly Classified Pieces of WWII Air Campaign
Two shipping barrels opened by the Commemorative Air Force contain one of the more intriguing technologies of the second world war
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Feeding Silkworms Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Makes Super-Tough Silk
A diet rich in graphene or carbon nanotubes causes the creatures to produce a fiber twice as strong as normal silk
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