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Fido’s Making That Puppy Face on Purpose—He’s Trying to Tell You Something
A new study suggests dogs use their facial expressions to communicate
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Look Up: The Orionid Meteor Shower Will Streak Through Skies This Weekend
Bits of Halley’s Comet are raining down on Earth, and the show will peak in the wee hours of Saturday morning
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Over Three Quarters of Flying Insects Disappear From German Nature Preserves
A combination of habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change may be behind the dramatic three-decade decline
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Latest AI Teaches Itself to Play Go With No Human Help
DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero taught itself how to play Go, becoming the greatest player in history in just 40 days
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All But Two Adélie Penguin Chicks Die in “Catastrophic” Breeding Season
A WWF official described it as “Tarantino does Happy Feet”
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First ‘Negative Emissions’ Plant Opens in Iceland, Turning Atmospheric CO2 Into Stone
The plant’s operators hope to halt the warming of the Earth, but many challenges remain for the plan to work on a large scale
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Tragedy and Beauty of Nature on Display in This Year’s Best Wildlife Photos
The 16 award-winning images range from whimsical birds to the tragic aftermath of a poaching raid
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Volcanic Eruptions Could Have Spurred Revolts in Ancient Egypt
A new study comparing eruptions and uprisings looks at how volcanoes meddle with annual Nile floods
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Why Wolves Work Together While Wild Dogs Do Not
Contrary to popular belief, domestication has made dogs less likely to cooperate to get food than wolves
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How Ex-Hurricane Ophelia Turned Skies Red Over the U.K
In a year of crazy weather, the remnants of the massive storm headed toward the British Isles
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How Nicholas Culpeper Brought Medicine to the People
His 17th-century text is still in print today
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This Worm Hasn’t Had Sex in 18 Million Years
By fusing its chromosomes, the creature could essentially clone itself while still maintaining genetic variation
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This Groundbreaking Astronaut and Star Trek Fan Is Now Working on Interstellar Travel
Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, wants us to look beyond Earth
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Genetic Study Shows Skin Color Is Only Skin Deep
Genes for both light and dark pigmentation have been in the human gene pool for at least 900,000 years
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Scientists Spot the Spark From Ancient Collision of Neutron Stars
The chirp and flash from the event offers clues to the origin of Earth’s precious metals
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Scientists Peek Across the Galaxy to the “Dark Side” of the Milky Way
Until now, researchers haven’t been able to map half of the galaxy we call home
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Stinking Rich: Swiss Sewage Contains $1.8 Million in Gold
But don’t start digging through the country’s sewer sludge just yet
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A Mysteriously Massive Hole in Antarctic Ice Has Returned
These holes are thought to be crucial elements of the currents driving the world’s oceans, and after 40 years, one has formed again
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Watch First Video of Sand Cat Kittens Romping in the Wild
The elusive kittens were documented sitting under a bush in the Moroccan Sahara last April
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Massive Green Squash Smashes Record for World’s Largest
Joe Jutras’ 2118-pound squash makes him the first person to earn the record for largest pumpkin, longest gourd and heaviest squash
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