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We’re About to Pass a Disheartening New Climate Change Milestone

We’re teetering on the edge of hitting carbon dioxide levels of 400 ppm, but will that be enough to change minds and policies?

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Feel What It’s Like to Live on an Antarctic Icebreaker for Two Months

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U.S. Gives Mongolia Its Tyrannosauras Skeleton Back

The U.S. government is returning a Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is giving two statues back to Cambodia

Is It Time to Scrap the Manual on Mental Illness?

After 11 years of working on the new DSM, some are saying that it’s time to retire the manual and think abut mental health entirely differently

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There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Design Contour-Hugging Armor for Women

Boob-shaped armor would have directed arrows straight to a woman’s heart and broken her sternum if she fell off her horse

How Many Weddings Will the Cicadas Ruin This Summer?

Late spring is when the 17 year cicadas come out. It also happens to be a popular time for weddings

This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like

You already have welcomed your robot overlords, and they’re building our financial system

Okay Americans still maybe take the worst tourist pictures.

Americans Are Actually The Best Tourists

A recent survey reveals that many service workers don’t find American that bad at all

Facebook Likes Might Be Hurting How Much People Actually Give to Charity

“Slacktivism” - easy online activism - could actually decrease how much people donate to their pet causes

Citizens of East Dennis, Massachusetts, filed this petition against the repeal of the Personal Liberty Laws in 1860.

African-Americans Sent Thousands of Anti-Slavery Petitions in the 18th and 19th Century

The petitions lend insight into the lives of African Americans during this tumultuous period in U.S. history, and now they’re being digitized

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The Cicadas are Coming, And So Are the Terrifying Spores That Eat Them Alive

The cicadas have been waiting for 17 years. This deadly fungus has been waiting for them

Do Blind People See Ghosts?

Can you “see” a ghost without seeing?

It’s Fine to Eat Standing Up

Should we add eating standing up to the list of food no-no’s? It’s unclear, science says

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Game Wardens Helped Poachers Kill the Last of Mozambique’s Rhinos

Mozambique’s rhinos have been living on the edge of extinction for more than a century, but now they’re finally gone for good

It Costs At Least $30,000 to Climb Mt. Everest

On top of dealing with the physical challenges, climbers have to be loaded.

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The Only Clouded Leopard Left in Taiwan Is Stuffed on a Museum Shelf

Zoologists call the results of a 13-year-long hunt to find any remaining clouded leopards “disappointing”

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Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years

Thomas Parnell, the school’s first physics professor, set up an experiment. It’s still going

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IBM Engineers Pushed Individual Atoms Around to Make This Amazing Stop-Motion Movie

IBM was the first to draw with atoms, and now they’re making them dance

It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving

There’s controversy surrounding the oak’s new home, but park or no park, the Ghirardi Oak is staying, and the transport seems to have been a success

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Physicists to Shoot Extremely Fast-Moving Electrons at Dinosaur Skin Fossil

The actual color of dinosaur skin is still very much up for debate

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