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A Megalodon tooth -- not the one found recently in California

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Fossil Hunting Is Best After Big Storms

California’s storms unearthed treasures along beaches and in foothills including a Megolodon tooth and a Steller’s sea cow ribs

A Persian leopard cub at Zoo Augsburg in Germany

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By Keeping Poachers Out, Mine Fields Give Endangered Animals Somewhere to Hide

The heavily-mined Iran-Iraq border is a sanctuary for the Persian leopard

Aspidoscelis neavesi, a species unlike any other.

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This New Lizard Species Evolved in a Lab

The novel reptile shows that hybrids can indeed lead to viable species, but not by the normal reproductive route

Both the Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and the ALMA Observatory contribute to this image of the Boomerang Nebula

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This Dying Star Is the Coldest Place We’ve Found in the Universe

The Boomerang Nebula is just one degree above absolute zero

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At 26,700 Feet, This Is the Deepest-Swimming Fish Known

Researchers found a new fish in the depths of the Mariana Trench

Irving Berlin and wife Ellen MacKay

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“White Christmas” Is Actually the Saddest Christmas Song

The season would have reminded composer Irving Berlin of his young son who died Christmas Day in 1928

One of the hapless burglars in "Home Alone" unwittingly stepped on Christmas ornaments placed by Kevin

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Architects Analyze Kevin McCallister’s “Home Alone” Booby Traps

Overanalyze Home Alone in every way possible — and it still stands up, all these years later

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Myth Busted: Americans Don’t Gain 10 Pounds Over the Holidays

It’s more like one

A recreation of the test that led to Louis Slotin's accident

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After WWII, Scientists Conducted Deadly Tests With an Unexploded Nuclear Bomb Core

Physicist Richard Feynman called the tests “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon”

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Get Set Up With a Family in NYC for Christmas

Don’t be sad at the prospect of spending the holiday alone, a popular photoblog will match you up with a family

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America’s Best Butter Is Handchurned in Vermont

The price for perfection is $49 per pound

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The Turing Test of Computer Intelligence Is Too Easy

To better test our computer programs’ intelligence, we should to ask them for stories and drawings

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Making Dead People’s Pulses Beat Again

A new device can transform 150-year-old printed representations of heart beats into actual sound

The view out of the Soyuz window.

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If You Looked Out the Window While Returning From Space, Here’s What You’d See

The bright glow of friction in Earth’s atmosphere

A sonar view looking down on part of the 345 foot-long SS City of Rio de Janeiro

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Found: The Wreckage of the SS City of Rio de Janeiro, the “Bay Area’s Titanic”

The maritime disaster was the worst in Bay Area history

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The Library for Magicians Is Taking Appointments

The Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York City houses some of the world’s rarest books on the art of deception

Ice from a glacier

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Backpackers Walk Across a Completely Clear Frozen Lake

A cool video raises the question: Why is most ice cloudy?

None

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TGI Fridays Has Dispatched Mistletoe-Carrying Drones in Restaurants

There’s already been one collision between drone and human

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These Adorable Robot Toys Teach Kids How to Code

The two bots using a basic visual language, and they are just one way to introduce children to computer programming

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Dreams Are Slow-Motion

Lucid dreamers are offering insight into the sleeping mind

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