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Everyone likes to complain that we're using too many exclamation points these days. Here's where the punctuation came from.
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Science provides an answer on what details in an urban street scene clue people in on what city it is from.
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Unearthed from a site near modern day St. Louis, Missouri, archaeologists found tea residue in pottery beakers that dates back to as early as 1050 A.D.
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Though plains bison are icons of America's cowboy past and rugged West, research findings show that most of the buffalo have cow ancestors from the 1800s
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Martin Fleischmann, who in 1989 claimed to have discovered cold fusion, died in his home in England on Friday, August 3rd, following a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
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In Brooklyn, you can drink beer while you do just about anything at some themed bar. Shuffleboard, darts, pool, mini-golf, horror movies, steampunk, old school arcade games; you name it and you can find it. And now the hipsters have an unlikely ally: Rubik’s cube obsessives. Together, this not-so-odd couple is bringing back the games [...]
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In a lectures series for children, Carl Sagan educates us all on the history and exploration of Mars.
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Olympic synchronized swimmers get a lot of flack for their wacky sport - but while it is weird, it's also really hard.
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Singapore's "unbelievably low birthrates" have inspired "National Night," a campaign to encourage Singaporean couples to "let their patriotism explode" on August 9.
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In 2010, $607 million dollars worth of small and light arms left the United States, headed to buyers around the world
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Though much of the physics behind rainbows is still cloaked in colorful mystery, researchers have at last unlocked some of the secrets behind the peculiar optics of the twinned rainbow.
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Good news on the illegal wildlife trade front: a new forensic genetics tool allows scientists to pinpoint where seized illegal ivory originates
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People often think their sarcasm is obvious, while receivers aren't always so quick to get the joke.
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Lovell, of the Lovell telescope, made several advances in radio astronomy and physics.
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Deep underground in southern Italy, just outside the city of Naples, the Campi Flegrei supervolcano has been resting for the past 500 years
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On a wooden raft two kittens (and three sailors) traveled from Canada to Cornwall
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New research shows that, unlike most animals, many adult humans continue to engage in playful behavior well into their summer and autumn years, and that this fun-loving attitude may help them score big when it comes to the opposite sex.
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The Arctic is melting,
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In rural Southern India, a husband has embarked upon perhaps the most chivalrous mission ever: designing an affordable menstrual pad for local women
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