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Putting Hummingbirds to the Test

One hummingbird, 20 MPH wind, 1000 frames per second

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Scientists Take a Crack at Explaining That Knuckle-Popping Noise

A new study takes a closer look to explain the mechanism behind the sound when we crack our joints

A blue whale surfacing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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Maybe the World’s Loneliest Whale Isn’t So Isolated, After All

Some evidence indicates that the singer of a higher-pitched whale song may not be alone

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Female Chimps More Likely Than Males to Hunt With Tools

A new study investigates the social and hunting behaviors of Fongoli chimpanzees

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These Magic Toothbrushes Work Without Toothpaste

A new brush—and an old one, too—that don’t rely on possibly harmful pastes to make your smile shine

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Fish Can Adjust Gender Balance in Face of Rising Temperatures

Warmer waters mean fewer female reef fish. But, over generations, populations can restore the balance.

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How Rum Helped the U.S. Win Its Independence

Rum may was a key player in America’s revolutionary days

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A Smart Algorithm Looked at 16 Billion Emails, And Here Is What It Learned

When you respond to an email, you mirror the sender’s email style

This pyramid in Lima, Peru was built by the Wari civilization, who pre-dated the Incas. Now Lima is proposing using another Wari innovation, a series of waterways called 'amunas,' to stem the city's ongoing water crisis.

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Ancient Tech Could Help Solve Lima’s Water Crisis

Turns out Peru’s Wari people were excellent urban planners…and their 1,500-year-old ‘amunas’ could soon bring water to Lima

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Colorado Lake Teems with Feral Goldfish

Parks and Wildlife thinks a goldfish owner dumped his pets into a local lake. Now a few years later, the fish swarm the water in thousands

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A Plan for a Robot Who Can Impersonate Your Mom

Google has a patent for artificial intelligence with a personality — and that patent might not be a good idea

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This Little Kid Discovered a Dinosaur

A rare nodosaur has been found in Texas…by a little boy

Austria

How Did an Ottoman War Camel End Up in an Austrian Basement?

Archaeologists think they have solved the mystery

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Paintings Have Become Increasingly Blue

Move over, orange: modern art is all about hues of blue

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Meet a Hermit Crab Who Has Shacked Up in a Lego

Weird things can become home sweet home when you are a tiny soft crustacean

The newfound ruins could outshine their neighbor, the underground city of Derinkuyu (pictured).

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Archaeologists Unfold World’s Largest Underground City in Turkey

Archaeologists find evidence to believe a site just discovered in 2012 could be a complex subsurface labyrinth

Army Avrocars depicted as "flying jeeps" in company literature

Early Flying Machines Were Just Weird

There’s a reason most designs didn’t stick around

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Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse Will Be The Shortest This Century

Will you spot this weekend’s “blood moon”?

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Test Tube Burgers Get a $324,989 Price Cut

The scientists behind lab-grown meat think they can soon offer it at a price most of us can actually afford

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NYC Has So Many Coyotes Living There, They’ve Started Going to Bars

New York’s urban coyote population is booming — this week, one even ended up on top of a Long Island bar.

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