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A child stands in the Côte d’Ivoire charcoal yard where his mother works.

New reports say that one in four deaths of young people under the age of five can be attributed to the environment

March 7, 2017

Veterinarians stand with Omsin the green sea turtle, whose life they saved during an hours-long operation.

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This Sea Turtle Ate 11 Pounds of Coins

Veterinarians removed the 900+ coins from Omsin the turtle’s stomach after they noticed she was acting erratic

March 6, 2017

Cool Finds

Skeletons Found Under a Florida Wine Shop May Be Some of America’s First Colonists

The skeletons, found in St. Augustine, Florida, likely date to the first decades of the oldest European settlement in the United States

March 6, 2017

Amsterdam's Central Station will again take center stage when the city widens some of its canals.

Soon, the city’s iconic Central Station will look more like its old self

March 6, 2017

This lumpy moon would have made short work of NASA's MAVEN craft.

Left unattended, MAVEN and Phobos could have collided

March 3, 2017

New Research

New Definition Would Make the Moon and Pluto Planets

A suggested update to the International Astronomical Union criteria would add over 100 planets to the solar system

March 3, 2017

Cool Finds

Five-Year Photo Project Captures the Sistine Chapel in High-Res Detail

Released in a new set of books, the 1:1 photos will be used by restorers to restore and assess damage to Michaelangelo’s masterpieces

March 3, 2017

The innards of the Large Hadron Collider's CMS module

The massive physics experiment in Switzerland is receiving an upgrade

March 3, 2017

The former president honors 66 members of the armed services in the show “Portraits of Courage,” which just opened at the George W. Bush Center

March 3, 2017

Artists rendering of the suspected Planet 9

Citizen scientists can examine photos to help discover a new planet, which recent evidence suggests is hiding at the edge of the solar system

March 2, 2017

Lou Reed graffiti in France is a reminder of the rock star's international infuence.

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Lou Reed’s Papers Have Found a Home

The vicious Velvet Underground frontman will live on at the New York Public Library

March 2, 2017

Collars and tags are used to track animals like panthers.

A study says that the new technology could hurt more than it helps

March 2, 2017

Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman, Mae Jemison

Cool Finds

LEGO Is Making a Women of NASA Set

The toy company selected Maia Weinstock’s proposal to celebrate the space agency’s female pioneers during its Lego Ideas competition

March 1, 2017

The non-profit aims to preserve game code and the magazines, marketing materials and culture surrounding video games

March 1, 2017

North American gray squirrels are decimating native red squirrels in the British Isles, leading to a new plan to reduce the population of invasive mammals

February 27, 2017

Bleached coral discovered earlier this month at Maureen's Cove in the Great Barrier Reef

After the worst die-off in the reef’s history in 2016, scientists are worried that high sea temperatures will affect the area again

February 27, 2017

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault keeps backups of the world's seeds safe in case of catastrophe.

Seeds from 49,000 types of crops will be backed up in Svalbard once more

February 24, 2017

Dachau's gate had a chilling message for its inmates.

The identity of the thieves remains a mystery

February 22, 2017

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst (pictured, left to right, in 1942) resisted the Nazis as members of the White Rose, a secret student group.

The White Rose was short-lived, but its words were hard to ignore

February 22, 2017

Aleutian people stand on the deck of a ship forcibly evacuating them to southeastern Alaska.

In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps

February 22, 2017