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This Giant Van Gogh Painting Is Made of Pumpkins, Watermelons and Squash

How crop artist Stan Herd made an acre-wide ode to “Olive Trees”

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Air Force One is Getting a Makeover

The best presidential perk is about to get even better

The IceCube Lab with a picture of neutrino data superimposed

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The Search For Elusive Neutrinos in Antarctica Generates Massive Amounts of Data

The IceCube observatory at the South Pole collects roughly 36 terabytes of data a year in the search for ‘special’ neutrinos

The yellow-bellied sea snake usually swims in tropical waters but this week one made its way to the California shore

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Venomous Sea Snake Washes Up on California Beach, and El Niño May Be to Blame

The lost sea snake isn’t the only problem the California can expect to face during a strong El Niño year

New Research

Where Do Hallucinations Come From? It May Just Be What You’ve Seen

It may be our brains overriding what is there with what it expects to see, according to new research

Screenshot from Histography 

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This Is What 14,000,000,000 Years of History Looks Like

A designer’s ingenious timeline covers the Big Bang to the Internet

Lee Harvey Oswald stands in his backyard with Marxist newspapers and a rifle. This photo has been looked on with suspicion ever since Oswald called it a fake after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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3D Model Showed Controversial Photo of John F. Kennedy’s Assassin Is Not a Fake

Doubts surrounded the incriminating photo since Kennedy was assassinated in 1963

Edith Wharton had presumably outgrown her rattle by the time this photo was taken in 1877.

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For Sale: Edith Wharton’s $16,500 Baby Rattle

Fanciest. Teething device. Ever.

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New Video of Floating Blobs of Fizzy Water in Space

Microgravity is the best place to figure out why raindrops are round

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Lego Superfans Built This Epic Model of Hadrian’s Wall

The edge of the Roman Empire, recreated with tiny toy blocks

Cebreros station

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Falcons Protect This Deep Space Antenna

Nesting birds and their droppings can keep space scientists’ telescopes from getting a clear signal

Cameras captured snowy craters scattered across the moon's north side.

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Stunning New Views of Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th-Largest Moon

A new flyby has revealed a spidery network of cracks crisscrossing its northern pole

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Why a Denmark Zoo Publicly Dissected a Lion

The zookeepers say it is an educational opportunity

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When You Space Out, Parts of Your Brain go to Sleep

Midday drowsiness might mean you’re already drifting off

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Prosthetics Could Soon Have a Sense of Touch

A technology suprisingly inspired by Darth Vader

A honey bee’s eye dusted with pollen from a dandelion pollen magnified 120 times won 1st prize in the 2015 Nikon Small World competition.

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See at a Bee’s Eye Level With 9 Award-Winning Microscopic Photos

The winners of Nikon’s annual photomicrography competition have an eye for detail

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Why Does the Internet Hate Renoir?

A tongue-in-cheek protest movement wants to remove the artist’s paintings from museums

A page of the original King James Bible

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The Origins of the King James Bible

A handwritten draft of the world’s most famous bible has been discovered in England

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This Halloween, Who Wants to Spend a Night in the Paris Catacombs?

Airbnb is looking for two brave souls to sleep with the dead

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