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Why Adults Scorn Teens For Sleeping Too Much

New research suggests that oversleeping makes teen feels better, and adults feel worse

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Crowdfunding Science Just Got More Fun: You Can Name And Track Your Own Wild Shark

If you help science, science will help you adopt a shark

Bison Cave Painting From Altamira

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Spain’s Prehistoric Cave Paintings Open to the Public for the First Time in Twelve Years

Today, five people were selected at random to visit the cave at Altamira for the first time in 12 years

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Blind People’s Dreams Are Richer in Sounds, Touches, Tastes And Smells

Compared to people whose sight is intact, blind people experience touch, smell, taste and sound more frequently in dreams

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Forget Driverless Cars, These People Want to Make Driverless Cargo Ships

While drone ships aren’t around the corner, they’re probably coming soon enough to keep ship workers up at night

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Draw on the Moon (Virtually!)

Artists Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson collaborated on an online art project

V-J Day in Times Square, New York City.

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That Time the U.S. Government Made All Bars in America Close At Midnight

In 1945, the government gave America a nationwide curfew for the first and last time

Ukraine's Independence Square February 23

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Ukrainian Protesters Are Already Establishing a Museum for Maidan Artifacts

Less than a week after the uprising in the Ukraine, some groups are already documenting the historic moment

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The Mystery of This 500-Year Old Mummy Is Only Beginning To Be Solved

For more than a century, no one in Germany knew where this mummy came from

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Scientists Figure Out Where Stonehenge Stones Came From, Still Don’t Know How They Got to Stonehenge

Scientists add two miles to the stone’s 140 mile trip, but still don’t know how they made it

North Korea from Space

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That Dark Spot? It’s North Korea

In images taken on the International Space Station, the country of North Korea is barely visible at all

St Martin's In the Fields William Logsdail

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See London in Double Vision—How It Looks Today And How Artists Saw It Years Ago

These pictures of modern London streets mashed up with old artwork are a sight to see

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There Might Be a Way to Eat More Meat Without Ruining the Planet

Grain has a lot to do with it

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A Drug Company Tried to Block the Use of Pentobarbital in Executions, But U.S. States Are Finding Ways Around the Ban

In 2011, the Danish company behind the drug, Lunbeck, banned the sale of pentobarbital for execution purposes.

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See the Last 40 Years of Cell Phones in One Animation

While the next big iPhone announcement might not blow you away, we’ve come pretty far since 1974

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These Stunning Light Pillars Are The Polar Vortex’s Way of Saying Sorry

Not all winter phenomena are problems

Iron Age coin hoard

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Hoard of Gold Coins Found in California

In what can only be described as every child’s dream, a couple in California found treasure buried in their backyard

Knife throwing: a place you want to be pretty accurate.

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One Thing Humans Are Better Than Other Species At: Throwing

The next time you angrily throw something across the room, appreciate that you’re exercising a pretty unique human ability

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American Men Are More Likely to Work From Home Than Women

While telecommuting is great, it’s not going to magically make the pressures on working moms go away

Traditional Space Saver in Boston

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Cities Across the Country Say: End Savesies on Snow Days

Car owners save shoveled parking spaces with weird household items, and officials say it’s got to stop

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