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City Bees Are Actually More Diverse Than Country Bees
Other pollinators don’t like urban areas as much as rural, but bees live in similar numbers across different landscapes
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Can Antiquities Looting in Syria Be Stopped?
The Islamic State is selling antiquities to fund their fight, now a secretive group is trying to protect those cultural treasures
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Tourist Trash Has Changed the Color of Yellowstone’s Morning Glory Pool
Researchers have found proof of what caused a hot spring’s drastic color modification—it’s people, of course
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Who’s Digging Up Hadrian’s Wall?
Rogue diggers with metal detectors are threatening a priceless archaeological site
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Hypnotize Yourself With a Record-Breaking Traditional Dance
This synchronized dance won a group of 5,211 Indian women a Guinness World Record
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The Group That’s Been Celebrating Lincoln’s Birth for Almost 150 Years
The Lincoln Association of Jersey City claims it has the longest record of celebrating Lincoln’s legacy
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A Scientist And a Slime Mold Are Set To Play a Duet
The blob-like creatures’ movements inspired a composer to create a way for slime mold to play the piano
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New Guidelines on Cholesterol: Eggs Are Ok, Butter’s Still Bad
Experts have long pushed for the change since for most, cholesterol isn’t the demon we thought it was
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What Makes Some Orca Whales Love a Good Belly Rub?
Some pods have been observed rubbing themselves on rocky beaches; scientists are still working to understand why
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Nothing Says ‘I Love You’ Like a Bit of Pocket Change
Victorians seduced their sweeties with “love tokens”
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One-Tenth of Native Mammals in Australia Are Extinct: Blame Cats And Foxes
No other country on Earth has lost a greater proportion of land mammals over the last two centuries; now, a new study zeros in on the cause
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Why 2015 Is Shaping Up to Be Another Good Year for Snowy Owls
Ornithologists are tracking the second major snowy owl southern migration in as many years, indicating that the birds’ numbers are still going strong
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Farm Animals Could Soon Carry Wi-Fi
In a few years, shepherds might be monitoring their flocks with networks of wireless sensors
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One new technique for green building—making houses out of straw—actually draws on century-old ideas
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These Bells Play Seismic Shifts
Watch as UC Berkeley’s bells play the earth’s “natural frequencies”
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Lynchings Were Even More Common in the South Than Previously Thought
A group of criminal justice reformers find 700 more lynchings in the segregated South than previously recorded
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An Early Copy of the Magna Carta Was Found Forgotten in an Old Scrapbook
An archivist in England stumbled upon a 715-year-old edition of the charter credited for initiating a new framework of governance
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