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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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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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