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In Norway, 12-year-old Thea has become the poster girl for putting an end to child marriage around the world.

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The Fake Story of a Blond Child Bride Made This the Most Visited Blog in Norway

The campaign is meant to increase awareness and also is seeking sponsors of individual girls

Replicas of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria sail Past Cape Canaveral in 1992

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Shipwreck Probably Not Santa Maria

Shipwreck found off the coast of Haiti is probably not Santa Maria

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People Will Give Away Their Personal Information for an Actual Cookie

I’ll take two oatmeal raisin and a high risk of identity theft

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Some Surgery Is No Better Than Sham “Placebo” Surgery

The placebo effect isn’t just for pills

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Do We Doodle Because We Speak?

Scribbling and sketching aren’t just practices to idle time away, but a more fundamental indication of our need for language

Space shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless floats in space

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How the Isolation of Space Messes with Your Mind

Long-term missions must deal with hallucinations, boredom and the silent treatment between crew members

For the time being, at least, the lands near the Grand Canyon will not be converted into something resembling this uranium mine in New Mexico.

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The Grand Canyon Will Not Be Mined for Uranium

Uranium mining will be banned for the next 20 years on nearly 1 million acres of land near the Grand Canyon

A herd of wild ass runs across the Tibetan plateau in Qinghai

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The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors

The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes

A bowhead whale breaches

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Whaler Makes History as the First Female in Her Community to Harpoon a Whale

The 31-year old struck the whale near the end of the fall season for Alaska’s bowhead subsistence hunters

Don't do this.

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What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?

A lifetime of chronic health issues

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One Human Year Does Not Equal Seven Dog Years

No one knows where the dog years myth came from, but experts agree that it’s simply not true

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The Only Primate With a Toxic Bite Might Have Evolved to Mimic Cobras

Slow lorises have snake-like markings, postures and a hiss that all resemble the speckled cobra

Jitterbugging in a juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939

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See Depression-Era Photos from Your Hometown

Thousands of images collected to document rural life from 1934 to 1944 are available to peruse online through an interactive project

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How the Humble Hydra Lives, As Far as We Know, Forever

Hydra don’t seem to die of old age. But why?

The ruins of Tokat Castle in northern Turkey.

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Archaeologists Think They’ve Found the Dungeon Where Dracula Was Kept

Vlad the Impaler was likely held captive in Turkey’s Tokat Castle

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Apollo-Era Data Is Helping Scientists Look for Gravitational Waves

Seismometers that were placed on the moon during the Apollo program collected data that is being used by physicists today

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Movie Theaters Boycott Netflix’s First Feature Film

AMC, Regal, Carmike and Cinemark thumb their nose at Netflix’s upcoming sequel to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”

A different Wyandotte chicken, this one still with head firmly attached.

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Mike the Chicken Lived for 18 Months Without a Head

In 1945, a decapitation gone awry gave birth to Miracle Mike

Memorial in London dedicated to the memory of the people who died in the bombings of July 7, 2005

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To Detect Bombs Before They’re Used, Sweden Is Looking at Its Sewers

The EU’s Emphasis Project is designed to detect people manufacturing IED’s

Blood vessels of the neck and head

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Blood Vessels Left Imprint on 2,000 Year Old Mummy

An Egyptian mummy’s skull contains the imprint of blood vessels surrounding its brain

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