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Moo-ve over mosquitos, your next bug spray may be cow cologne

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This Cologne Makes Cows Smell Like Humans, So Mosquitos Bite Them Instead of Us

California company receives Gates Foundation grant to explore a unique kind of pest control

World Cup 2014

Statistics Say That Brazil Will Probably Win the World Cup

Analyzing players’ transfer values to calculate a team’s overall market value, however, predicts that Spain will win

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Fire Hydrants Get a Face Lift

A new design for fire hydrants could make fighting fires a lot easier

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Fly With The Birds In Nepal. No, Really.

Parahawking is just another way you can get up close and personal with nature

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These 1861 Photos Helped Convince Abraham Lincoln to Preserve Yosemite for the Public

Stanford University celebrates the National Park’s 150th anniversary with some retro photos

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Americans Are Serving Alpaca for Dinner

The llama-like animal is growing in popularity for meat eaters in the U.S.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Neutrons Was Auctioned Off This Week

The prize fetched more than Faulkner’s Nobel, but less than Crick’s

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Would Projected Windows Make a Cramped Micro Apartment More Comfortable?

Is virtual reality the solution to housing densification?

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In Wales, Traveling by Dragon Is Now an Option, According to Google Maps

You can also commute by carriage or Loch Ness monster, depending on your location in the U.K.

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The Universe Is Beautiful in This New Hubble Image

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image 2014 is stunning

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This Company Sold More Beer by Helping Waitresses Get Home Late at Night

Anthropology can have relevance for the business world—just ask this beer company

These artifacts were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in 2011 and were recovered this April. but many looted artifacts leave the country, never to return.

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In Egypt, Antiquities Looters Use Bulldozers

Three years after the revolution, technology and diplomacy are being used to combat looters

Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau, stands on ice in a 2007 picture

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Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson Is Going to Live Underwater for 31 Days

Fabien Cousteau will honor his grandfather’s legacy for over a month

Rabbits around old military facilities on Okunoshima.

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This Once-Secret Island Now Hosts Hordes of Adorable Bunnies

Now home to hundreds of semi-tame bunnies, the island once housed poison gas facilities

The project could provide high speed internet to the remote Cook Islands, for example.

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Google Is Launching 180 Satellites to Bring the Internet to Remote Corners of the World

Google is acquiring satellite companies and hiring experts to find solutions for bringing internet to remote corners of the world

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Save the Endangered Beers!

The National Collection of Yeast Cultures stores thousands of strains of yeast to keep them from disappearing

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You Can Now Get High-Speed Internet on the Moon

Last fall NASA and MIT researchers demonstrated a new laser-based long-distance data transmission system

Petroglyphs in Utah

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Prehistoric Rock Art Defaced in Utah

Visitors to Nine Mile Canyon decided to leave more than footprints at the longest art gallery in the world

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Visit a Glass Labyrinth in Kansas City

The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., has a new interactive sculpture in the sculpture garden

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Using GIS to Factcheck Julius Caesar’s Account of the Gallic Wars

Scientists are using modern technology to check whether Julius Caesar’s accounting of Roman history was accurate

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