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Two months before he died, Heaney wrote "In a Field" at the request of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy
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This might seem like an obvious question, but it turns out that no one has looked into it until now
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Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like
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The average temperature in the Arctic, says new research, is hotter than at any time in the past 44,000 years, and maybe more
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Hibernation tends to go hand-in-hand with cold temperatures, but the greater mouse-tailed bat hibernates at a comfortable 68-degrees Fahrenheit
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Some early Americans came not from Asia, it seems, but by way of Europe
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Those companies have designed dark, bold packaging and bigger "man-sized" portions
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The conflict pit the U.S. military against Grenadian revolutionaries and the Cuban army
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The acacia was the only tree for 250 miles in Niger's Sahara desert and was used as a landmark by travelers and caravans
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Of the 8 million tweets sent in the days following the Boston bombing, just 20% were accurate pieces of factual information
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When they get stressed by the heat, coral make their own shade by releasing a chemical that helps clouds form
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Laws are in the works to get EpiPens into schools and restaurants
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Inspiration for the idea traces back to the 212 BC legend about Archimedes' burning mirrors used to set Roman battle ships ablaze
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There may never be a time when people will accurately answer surveys, but at least survey givers are getting better at tricking us into being honest
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You know that your body is made of cells - but just how many? Turns out that question isn't all that easy to answer
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he temple affairs head and the the cultural heritage monitoring team lead have both lost their jobs, and the Communist party chief has been scolded
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It's a good thing that science is here to figure out the exact perfect way to drink a cup of coffee
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In the 1934 movie Murder at the Vanities there's a whole musical number about the pleasures of marijuana sung by half naked women
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Whether or not the remipede venom would have any effect on a curious diver poking at the tiny creature, however, remains unknown
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The new fossil, nicknamed "Joe," sheds light on its species' characteristic tube-like head formation
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