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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

Ask Smithsonian 2017

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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In 2015, an Ad for a Sports Drink Will Land on the Moon

One giant leap for advertising

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This Facebook Page Allows Iranian Women to Share Selfies Sans Hijab

The anonymous photos are meant to inspire change

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How to Predict If Your Baby Name Idea Is Too Trendy

A statistical analysis tries to predict how names’ popularity will change over coming decades

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Fujitsu is Growing the Most Technologically Advanced Lettuce Ever

This gives a whole new meaning to factory farm

Charles Darwin: sailor, scientist, beard aficionado.

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In the Victorian Era, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help Keep Men Healthy

The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns

Yardangs on Mars

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What in the World (Or Off of It) Is a Yardang?

They’re on Mars, they’re beautiful and they have nothing to do with pirates

Workers lay railway tracks near the new railway station in Shanghai, China on 01 March 2010.

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China Is Thinking About Building a Train to the U.S.

Chinese engineers are discussing a new high speed rail line from China to the US

A different blue whale skeleton rests on Goudier Island, Antarctica.

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The Whale That Didn’t End Up Exploding Is Being Chopped Up and Shipped Across the Country

Dismantling a blue whale, piece by piece

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This Farmer Grew Four Times As Much Rice in the Same Amount of Land

His controversial farming method has long been dismissed by experts

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The Science of Cooking a Perfect Hard-Boiled Egg

It’s all about temperature and timing

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Small, Quiet Drones Let Conservationists Peek Inside Bird’s Nests

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is using remote-controlled drones to monitor nests of endangered species

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How to Make Hitchhiking Safe Again

A new system of background checks could make catching a ride safer and easier

The new Mars rover, scheduled for 2020, is to be built on roughly the same platform as the Curiosity rover.

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NASA’s Going to Mars in 2020 And Wants to Bring Back Martian Rocks

The next NASA Mars rover, scheduled for 2020, may be the first step in a sample return mission

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