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The primates take a while to wean their young
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The Lava Center is surrounded by three volcanoes
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Thomas Midgley Jr.'s inventions have had an outsize impact—not all of it good—on humankind
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Once-forested lands are being used in money laundering operations
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It is not nearly as formidable as its namesake
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The gelatin-scaffold ovary could one day help restore endocrine function in young cancer patients and treat infertility
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A mistranslation led to the unusual name of this mathematical concept
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The glue, infused with a version of the protein decorin, healed wounds in rats, giving them skin with hair follicles and oil glands instead of scar tissue
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The narwhals were observed using their signature appendages to hit and stun prey
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Immaculate no more, the island now looks more like a dump than a pristine paradise
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When it comes to some of Earth’s smoggiest cities, less dust isn’t necessarily better
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A nodosaur found in Alberta includes some of the best preserved dino skin and armor ever found
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The tadpole-shaped glass structures can survive a hammer blow but explode if their tail is squeezed
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The Department of Interior will make a recommendation about the land's fate in early June
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Religious dietary laws in the Middle Ages could have helped make the fowl less aggressive
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Researchers trained 11 telescopes on a recent burst's aftermath, but could find no traces of what caused the high energy signal
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A new study says yes, but it’s complicated
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Discovered in Peru, the new fossil has tiny remnants of hind limbs
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A single death has been confirmed—now public health officials must keep an outbreak from becoming an epidemic
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Whether it's lying in the grave or sitting in a Paris bank vault, the monarch's cranium has been the subject of much debate since his untimely demise
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