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Watch the Perseids Peak This Week
Summer’s stunning meteor shower is sure to please stargazers
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Inside a Dutch Police Academy…for Rats
Cigarette-sniffing rats are creating new job opportunities for their fellow rodents
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How Do Animals Find Food? The Answer’s in Their Eyes
Pupil shape provides differing advantages to those who crave the hunt and those who hide
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Russia Might Own the North Pole
Thanks to global warming, Russia has claimed a new ocean in the Arctic
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Teenage Girls Have Led Language Innovation for Centuries
They’ve been on the cutting edge of the English language since at least the 1500s
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Search Engines Can Sway Undecided Voters
New research uncovers “the search engine effect” and its potential to influence election outcomes
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Humans Evolved to Be Moved by Art
New research shows that while people respond to art for very different reasons, the ability to be moved in the first place is universal
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Why Don’t Balancing Boulders Fall During Earthquakes?
The interaction of nearby fault lines may lessen ground shaking around some balancing rocks
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What’s Next for the Animas River?
Cleanup efforts are underway at the river, which turned a bright orange-yellow after a catastrophic chemical spill
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The Health Effects of the Atom Bomb Are Still Being Studied
Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors influence worldwide radiation standards, even 70 years later
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Astronauts Fill Out Customs Forms, Too
Read Buzz Aldrin’s expense report and customs form from his Apollo 11 mission to the moon
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This Renaissance Painting of Fruit Holds a Modern-Day Science Lesson
Hint: it’s in the watermelon
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Breathtaking Space GIF Gives Earth a New Perspective of the Moon
NASA’s EPIC camera took the image a million miles from Earth
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Why This Chicken is Black From Comb to Feathers to Muscles
The Ayam Cemani is the Goth of the chicken world
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The Physics of a UFC Fighter so Fast, She Might Just Be Bionic
Two words: kinetic energy
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Glaciers Are Retreating Faster Than Before
The future of Earth’s glaciers is unsettling at best
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The Middle East Just Lived Through One of the Hottest Days in History
An Iranian city logged a 165-degree heat index last week as temperatures continue to boil
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