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Let Us Introduce You to a Tiny Arctic Tyrannosaurs

Nanuqsaurus hoglund lived above the Arctic circle

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Matching a Person’s Face With an ID Photo Seems To Be Something of a Crap Shoot

People fail to make a correct identification up to 20 percent of the time, at least in the lab

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Copy Cats Are Universally Looked Down Upon by the World’s Children

Regardless of their nation's stance on copyright and intellectual property laws, kids are not into others stealing their ideas

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Restoring Cut Rainforests Might Not Work Well If There’s Light Pollution Nearby

Fruit-eating bats can't do their job distributing seeds around the new jungle patch if they're blinded by lights

Maybe sometimes it would be nice if your stuff would just stay where you put it. Just for a minute? Please?

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Astronauts Are Really Sick of Houston, And Other Insights Gleaned From Spacefarer’s Diaries

Life in space is amazing and wonderful and beautiful and awesome, but sometimes it's also really, really annoying

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Male Peacocks Make Fake Sex Noises to Seem More Attractive Than They Are

Faking a noise usually reserved for sex makes male peacocks more attractive

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Elephants Identify Dangerous People by Their Gender, Their Clothes And Even the Language They Speak

Wild Kenyan elephant have learned to identify Maasai men as dangerous threats

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Activity Bands Can See You Run, But Not Deadlift

Bands are good at walking and running, but lose their accuracy for other types of exercise

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In the Animal Kingdom, Couples Are Often More "Monogam-ish" Than Monogamous

That an animal "mates for life" doesn't often mean what you think it means

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There Are Indeed Side Effects to Sword Swallowing

From "sword throat" to putting a hole in your pharynx, sword swallowing comes with a few risks

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Parents Playing With Their Phones Have Less Patience for Their Kids

Kids compete with Candy Crush and texting for a parental attention

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Spider Monkeys Are the Only Other Primate Species That Segregates by Sex

Spider monkey females are basically living together in a feminist commune to escape the aggressive, greedy males

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One Drink Might Be Enough to Make People 55 And Older Unsafe Drivers

Older adults may be more susceptible to the effects of alcohol on driving performance

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Flying Snakes Glide Through the Air Like Mini-Tornadoes

Researchers are getting closer to understanding the physics behind this impressive reptilian feat

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Could Giant Walls Prevent Tornadoes?

The idea is to build three walls, 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide, running east to west across the country's middle

A carbon capture and storage plant in Germany.

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Forget Storing Carbon. Why Not Capture It And Make It Into Something Useful?

New equipment could let manufacturers use atmospheric carbon dioxide as a raw material

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What Season You're Born in Might Influence How Your Brain Develops

Men born in December tend to have the most grey matter in a certain region of the brain, while men born in June have the least

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Some Totally Normal People Just Don’t Like Music That Much

While some of us find ourselves quietly crying in the middle of a Target when some dumb song comes on, others are unmoved

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If We're Going to Climb Mountains, First the Earth Needs to Make Them

Temujin Doran's video explores the processes that affect mountain evolution

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If You Like Gore, You'll Like Watching This Eyeball Get Dissected

Mind the eye juice

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