Cool Finds

Maybe Cleopatra Didn’t Commit Suicide

Her murder, one author thinks, was covered up behind a veil of propaganda and lies put forth by the Roman Empire

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Public for the First Time: A Last Letter from Dying Antarctic Explorer Captain Scott

In private hands for the past hundred years, Captain Scott's final letter is revealed

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No Question: A T. Rex Would Beat You in Arm Wrestling

T. Rex may be ridiculed for her puny chicken-leg arms, but don't be deceived: this dinosaur was ripped from head to claw

Camera Lost for Six Years Returned (Which Is Crazy Even With the Internet)

The story can tell us a lot about the durability of plastic, but it's also an interesting look at just how connected the corners of the globe can be

James Cameron Decides to Let Scientists Use His Awesome Submersible

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution inherits the submarine, which they will use to built even better submersibles

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Rare Crane Gets a Prosthetic Leg, Joins Hoard of Amazing Animal Prosthesis Users

Animal prosthetics are far behind our human blades, but they're making strides

Fast-Melting Arctic Ice Caused Massive Spring Snowstorms

Record lows of Arctic sea ice also accounts for last year's unusually warm spring

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Nobody Chews Like You Chew

There are a few things that are distinct to every person—her fingerprints, voice, particular way of walking, and, it turns out, the way she chews

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Richard III’s Relatives Threaten to Sue If His Exhumed Remains Aren’t Buried in York

Wherever Richard III winds up, the tourist buses will likely follow

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Setting Sail: the 500th Anniversary of Juan Ponce de León’s Discovery of Florida

The story of Florida isn't as simple as you may remember

An Artist’s Ode to Plankton, Set to Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’

Instead of singing to Mimi, the poet Rodolfo serenades a giant stalks of human-sized plankton wrapped in plastic pollution

Are You Here on Earth Just to Make Babies?

If so, what does that really mean for what we do each day, our culture and our society?

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The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless

Everybody relies on those four letters far more than they should

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Scientists Published Henrietta Lacks’ Genome Without the Consent of Her Family

Author Rebecca Skloot argues that society is not ready for full genetic disclosures of individuals

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Smuggler Caught With 10 Percent of an Entire Species

At the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand, authorities stopped a man with some turtles. Fifty-four ploughshare tortoises and twenty-one radiated tortoises, to be exact

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The Count of Dead Pigs Pulled Out of Chinese Rivers Is Up to 16,000

Recent plagues of dead animals floating down China's rivers may be due to farmers evading heightened environmental regulations

Mussolini and Hitler in Munich in 1940.

Italian Dictator Mussolini’s Secret Bunker Unearthed

Hidden beneath the Palazzo Venezia, Benito Mussolini's World War II bunker

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Tracing $1 Bills Across the United States Is a Surprisingly Useful Hobby

What started as a quirky hobby, has turned into a national bill hunt that's useful for all sorts of people - like physicists

A reconstruction of Daisy Morris’ dinosaur, Vectidraco daisymorrisae

Five-Year-Old Girl Discovers Fossil of Previously Unknown Pterosaur

A brand new pterosaur and a 300-million year old crab, the fossil finds of kids

Can Watching One Video Help You Die Better?

Since most of us don't see emergency medicine all that often, we tend to have an unrealistic idea about just how end of life care works

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