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Yes, Astronauts Are Afraid to Go to Space
Actual astronauts never seem afraid to piece the atmosphere and plunge into the icy depths beyond our planet, but they are
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INTERPOL Is After “the Snake,” a Notorious Illegal Fishing Vessel
Norway requested that INTERPOL bestow the Snake with a Purple Notice, information-gathering the agency uses to compile details on criminal activities
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These Beautiful 16th Century Watercolors Illustrate the History of Comets And Meteors
Today, studying comets and meteors involves billions of dollars worth of equipment and teams from all over the world
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An Underwater Volcano the Size of New Mexico Is the World’s Largest
The Tamu Massif is not only the world’s largest volcano, but also one of the largest documented volcanoes in the solar system
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Hey, Eastern Seaboard! Look Up, You’re About to See a Rocket Launch
A new orbiter is going to the Moon, and it’s launching from Virginia
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Trypophobia Is a Fear of Holes
To study trypophobia, scientists went to the most obvious place: the trypophobia website and Facebook group
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In the 16th Century, Nose Jobs Were Horrible, Horrible Things
The process involves shoving cloth under the skin of your arm, walking around for two weeks with your bicep attached to your face, and probably dying
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Cow Tipping Never Was And Never Will Be a Thing People Actually Do
Scientists have actually taken the time to investigate the idea, and produced some hard numbers that indicated that cow-tipping “has no leg to stand on”
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A Tiny, Transparent Skull Implant Could Simplify Brain Surgery
Unlike past glass-based models, the new implant’s ceramic material will not shatter if someone bumps their head
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Richard III Had a Nasty Case of Roundworms
Perhaps the king’s cooks were not washing their hands, or forgetting to rinse the human waste-fertilized salad greens before serving them to their monarch
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Clouds Obscure Clear Climate Forecasts
Ride alongside NASA’s Airborne Science Laboratory as scientists try to figure out the role of clouds in climate change
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This Frog Hears With Its Mouth
The tiny Gardiner’s frog does not possess an eardrum, but it has come up with a convenient evolutionary hack to get around that
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Japan’s Planning to Build an “Ice Wall” Around Fukushima
The Japanese government has stepped in and announced that it will invest $500 million in the project
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This Man’s Smell Hallucinations Can Predict the Weather
For one man Parkinson’s hallucinations were both horrible and predictive - he smelled an intense skunky oniony smell that got worse when a storm was coming
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LEGO Reveals a Female Scientist Minifigure
Just a few weeks ago Barbie released their “Mars Explorer” doll. And today LEGO unleashed their female scientist block figurine
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A Reminder From Yosemite’s Massive 1988 Fire: Wildfire Is Largely a Human Problem
This isn’t the first time fire has threatened a national park
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While we slather sunscreen on our skin, whales don’t have the hands or the technology to do the same
Watch NASA Crash-Test a Helicopter by Dropping It
For tanks and cars safety testing means crashing them into walls. For a military helicopter that means dropping it from 30 feet in the air
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When You Don’t Have Enough Money, It’s Hard to Think About Anything Else
Subjects consumed with money, they found, dropped an average of 13 IQ points, or the equivalent of zapping our brain by pulling a mind-numbing all-nighter
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Time-Traveling Time Lapse Takes the Same Train Ride in 1953, 1983 And 2013
Three time-lapses were shot on the same stretch of rail over 60 years
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