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Labyrinths in Prisons and Hospitals Might Actually Help People Relax

Labyrinths are experiencing a revival

The Cosmic Navel is larger than it appears in this image—it spans about 200 feet wide and is between 16 and 65 feet deep.

How the Giant “Cosmic Navel” Formed in Utah

The unique landform in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is essentially one of the biggest potholes on Earth

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Why People Call Apartments ‘Pads’

The slang term has a sordid past

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The Mystery of What Venus de Milo Was Once Holding

A distaff, thread and spindle could have been held in her upraised arms and would have been appropriate for the goddess of love

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How to Become a Fossil in Five Easy Steps

Tricks to preserving your bones for future archaeologists

A blood-sucker creeping around on a potential victim's pristine white sheets.

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How Our Modern Lives Became Infested With Bed Bugs

After being bitten by the tiny pests, author Brooke Borel set out to learn all she could about her blood-sucking foes

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You Can See South Korea’s Seaweed Farms From Space

Seaweed farms offer a sustainable source of vegetable protein

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A Piranha Was Just Found in an Arkansas Lake

The sharp-toothed fish was likely a pet gone rogue

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Curling, Baking, Typos: How This Year’s Kentucky Derby Contenders Got Their Names

What’s in a name? A lot, if you want to tackle the Triple Crown

Lenin's body in 1991. Thanks to the Lenin Lab, the corpse still looks virtually the same today.

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Meet the Group of Scientists That Keeps Lenin’s 90-Year-Old Corpse Fresh

90 years later, Vladimir Lenin’s body is still maintained by a Russian lab

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Here’s Why The Italian Army is Growing Weed

They want to lower the price of medicinal marijuana by growing their own

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Paper Airplanes Flew Decades Before Real Ones Did

Kids have been folding paper so it flies since at least the mid-19th century

An artist's interpretation of the Gaia spacecraft -- mistaken for a small moon this week

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The Time a Space Observatory Was Mistaken for a Second Moon

For 13 hours, the space observatory Gaia was misidentified as a natural satellite orbiting Earth

Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine and Empress Theodora could almost switch robes in this print

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Gender-Neutral Clothes Are Trendy, But Not New — Humans Dressed Similarly for Centuries

Fashion with distinct looks for men and women is a relatively recent, Western-centric phenomenon

Knights battling during a Medieval fighting championship on January 22, 2015 in Israel.

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Friday Knight Fights: Russian MMA Fighters Go Medieval

The duels are so popular with the fans that the company is actively searching for more knights to fill out its ranks

A male Gentoo penguin brings stones to a female with chicks

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Penguins May Use Poop to Melt Snow From Breeding Sites Before They Get it On

The observation comes from analyzing thousands of images captured by remote cameras trained on penguin colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula

Brewers at work making beer

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Brewmasters Now Using DNA Techniques to Spot Bad Batches

Instead of waiting for bacteria to grow, a quick genetic test can identify problem brews

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Culinary Diplomacy: Why Governments Are Starting Food Trends

Promoting your country’s food is becoming a trendy tactic for nations looking to raise their profile (and tourist revenue)

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How “Operation Mummy’s Curse” is Helping Fight Terrorism

Selling illicit relics is the third most profitable wing of the black market, after drugs and weapons

This 133-foot long wooden steamer, the Rising Sun, is in 6 to 12 feet of water just north of Pyramid Point, where she stranded on October 29, 1917. All 32 people on board were saved.

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In 2015, Lake Michigan Was So Clear Its Shipwrecks Were Visible From the Air

A Coast Guard patrol spotted the wrecks in shallow waters that are only clear after the lake’s ice melts and before summer sediment swirls and algae blooms

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