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The eastern cougar is extinct. But did it ever exist in the first place?
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Ramses III's death has always been a mystery, but new evidence just emerged the the Pharaoh's throat was slit, likely by members of his harem
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This time last year the Mississippi around St. Louis was 20 feet deeper
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Thousands of feet above your head, microbes are living—and reproducing—in the tiny drops of water that make up clouds
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The more we can learn about how chytrid fungus spreads and attacks, the better chances we have at saving the world's amphibians
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Several mainstream scientists are expressing doubts about the necessity of the IPCC reports
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Andre Nemesio and his team just named a brand new orchid bee Euglossa bazinga, after the catch phrase used by Sheldon Cooper
NASA points out the illogic of this apocalypse scenario and misconceptions that caused the false notion of an end-of-the-world prophesy to come about
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The odds of a white Christmas has dropped 15% in recent decades
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Paypal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel just gave a small $300,000 startup grant to a Canadian researcher trying to harness power from man-made tornados
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An ancient Greek Bible is now available online
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It's still a mystery who exactly orchestrated and carried out the deed
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The Obama administration just set new limits on soot from smoke stacks and diesel engines, a type of air pollution linked to early death and higher rates of heart attacks, strokes and lung diseases
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The Hobbit was shot on a RED camera developed by sunglass mogle Jim Jannard
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For residents of the central California coast there might finally be an explanation for why thousands of dead squid have littered their beaches this week
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A historian in Denmark may have discovered Hans Christian Andersen's first fairy tale ever
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Researchers examining the brains of mummies have found a small tool that was used during embalming, left behind after the procedure
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Flickr user Roadsidepictures offers hundreds of images of vintage product packaging spanning most of the 20th century
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Nativity buffs will also note that the familiar cast of characters relied upon today is not biblically accurate
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