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You Could Smell Like A Viking

York has come up with a new tourism stunt: smell like a Viking

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Watch This Adorable Mammal Hatch From an Egg

A 1974 nature video shows a spiny anteater hatching

The New York Stock Exchange all gussied up for Twitter's opening day.

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Scientists Will Soon Be Trawling Through All of Your Tweets

Twitter is opening up their entire archives to researchers

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This Software Can Screen for Autism

What expert? This autism screening software works just as well.

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That Anxiety in Your Gut Controls Your Brain More Than You Know

Your stomach can be scared… and not just of being empty

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Europe Has Its Own Bison Species That Came Back From the Brink of Extinction

Bison were just reintroduced into a stretch of Romania where they haven’t been found for two centuries

Artwork of the International Space Station

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This Robotic Arm Is About To Repair Itself in Space

Space’s newest Mr. Fix-It is a robot that can update its own hardware

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Can Free Crack Pipe Kits—Like Free Heroin Needles—Reduce Disease Transmission?

A group in San Francisco plans to hand out free crack pipes, but the city is not convinced it’ll help reduce the spread of HIV and Hep C

Rachel Pike,11th Grade- 1st Place

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NASA’s Art Contest Reveals How Kids See the Future

NASA’s Langley Research Center asked students from Virginia to participate in an art contest

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DNA Proves Once And for All That a Supposed Titanic Survivor Was a Fraud

Loraine Allison, a two-year-old who was on board the Titanic, almost certainly drowned

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Take a Look at How Disney Got Investors for Disneyland

Boing Boing was given the original Disneyland prospectus, and now you can see it

Larry Kramer and his dog, Charley, in 2011.

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Larry Kramer Waited 30 Years for His Play About the Early Years of AIDS to Be a Film

Kramer hopes “The Normal Heart” inspires a new generation of activists

Ghazali monastery

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These Archaeologists Were Looking for Tombs, But They Were Totally Psyched to Find Toilets

The discovery of toilets at a Sudanese monastery indicates that the site was an important one

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Get Up Close And Personal With a Terrifying Supercell

Stormchasers in Wyoming captured footage of a beautiful supercell storm

We tend to present idealized versions of ourselves to social media.

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See What a Stranger Sees for Twenty Days

Rather than the highly-curated social media profile, 20 Day Stranger wants to show you the boring bits of someone else’s life

One of the two chicks hatched at Slimbridge

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Newly Hatched Crane Chicks Carry the Hopes of Britain on Their Shoulders

If thes crane chicks survive, they will be the first wild born cranes to be raised in western Britain in 400 years

Hundreds of chickens share a huge pen at a sovkhoz chicken production factory in Rudomino. Sovkhozy were state-owned farms that paid workers for their labor in the former Soviet Union. Location: Rudomino, Lithuania

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A Professor Proposes Creating the Matrix for Factory-Farmed Chickens

He wants to give them the Virtual Free Range™ experience

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Dracula’s Castle Is for Sale

Bran Castle can be yours for a rumored $80 million

An artist's impress of the Venus Express orbiter around Venus.

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This Satellite’s Last Act Will Be Skydiving Through Venus’ Atmosphere

The ESA’s Venus Express orbiter is going to end its life with a trip into Venus’ atmosphere

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How Do We Know the Earth Is 4.6 Billion Years Old?

We know the Earth is old. But how do we know its age?

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