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The historic 1910 Fiat S76 rides!

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A Racing Car Built in 1910 Roars to Life Once More

It was unofficially the fastest car in its time and still impresses today

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A Group of Endangered Orcas Has Gotten Busy Making Babies

Southern Resident killer whales have been on the decline, but new babies bring hope for the future

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Here’s What the Apostles Ate at the Last Supper

Beans, charoset, and unleavened bread

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Why the ESA’s Astronauts Train Underground

The European Space Agency is applying protocols from the International Space Station in caves

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Houston, We Might Have Some Major Problems Making Babies in Space

From risky pregnancies to birth defects to problems with inbreeding, it just seems like a bad idea

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This Onion Will Never Make You Cry

A Japanese food company has designed an onion that won’t make you cry

Screenshot from "Macro Timelapse" at Natural Recall

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Growing Plants Have Never Looked So Gruesome

All it takes is a slight shift of perspective to realize plants are far from inanimate

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Isaac Newton’s Laundry List of Sin

The famous physicist kept a catalog of very human transgressions

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There Are Communities of People Who Call Themselves Vampires

“Their self-described nature begins to manifest around or just after puberty”

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Men and Women See Things Differently (No, Literally)

Color perception may actually have something to do with gender

The rooftop garden and colonnade at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

Urban Explorations

Inside Los Angeles’s Strangest Museum

Enter the dark and completely unique world of the Museum of Jurassic Technology

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A Tired Brain Could Actually Be More Creative

The wandering thoughts brought on by fatigue can lead to insight

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How a Stinging Swarm of Bees Can Save a Life

Bee venom might be a potent medicine

A model of Metoposaurus algarvensis

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Hundreds of Car-Sized Fossil Amphibians Found in a Mass Grave

The huge creature is related to modern-day newts, salamanders and frogs

Baby bald eagles are pretty cute for being tiny raptors. See Pennsylvania's new pair by tuning in to the live stream of their nest.

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Watch Two of the World’s Newest Bald Eagles in the Nest

Sneak a peek into a bald eagle abode where the next fine-feathered generation just emerged

Methuselah the Judean Date Palm is still going strong even after sprouting from a 2,000-year-old seed.

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Tree Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Has Reproduced

Age doesn’t have much on this rare piece of greenery sprouted from a seed discovered in an ancient Israeli site

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That Time an Astronaut Smuggled a Corned Beef Sandwich To Space

The sandwich was a joke but its crumbs proved to be too much — for politicians, not for the mission

A close-range view of a landspout tornado in western Kansas, 2008.

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Why Forecasters Were Once Banned From Using the Word “Tornado”

Before meteorologists developed reliable prediction techniques, the t-word was off the table

An artist's rendition of Pluto's surface.

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Make Your Mark on Pluto by Helping Name Its Features

The New Horizons team is asking the public for help labeling the maps of Pluto and one of its moons

Unsurprisingly, some giant tortoises take issue with humans trying to watch them breed.

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Tortoise Defends His Lady in a Super Slow Chase

Here’s what happens when you interrupt two giant reptiles just trying to get in a bit of quality time together

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