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The Tribeca Film Festival injected even more controversy into the anti-vaccine "debate" when it decided to show a film by the movement's most polarizing figure.

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UPDATE: The Tribeca Film Festival Changes Course, Will Not Screen Film About the Discredited Anti-Vaxx Movement

The controversy shows the film isn’t immune to unfounded fears about vaccination

This 12,000-year-old city could soon be inundated thanks to a hydroelectric dam.

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These Are Europe’s Eight Most Endangered Cultural Landmarks

Unless things change, these historic sites could disappear from the map forever

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Here’s Why Some of Yosemite’s Iconic Landmarks Are Being Temporarily Renamed

The U.S. government is battling a private company for the rights to historic names

The green object is the comet 252P/LINEAR as it passed by the Larger Megellanic Cloud.

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A Pair of Comets Are Making a Record-Breaking Pass by Earth

This is the closest a comet has come in 246 years

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Watch a Statue of Lenin Being Torn Down in Real Time

It’s hard to topple a 66-foot statue—or contend with the symbols of Ukraine’s communist past

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Washington D.C. Welcomes a New Baby Bald Eagle

With one chick hatched, there’s another still to come

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SeaWorld Is Shutting Down Its Orca Breeding Program

But the orcas currently living in its parks will remain there for the rest of their lives

Aluminized suits are used to reflect heat at the Armed Forces Firefighting School. Chanute Field, Illinois, in 1977.

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NASA’s Starting a Fire in Space

How will flames react in microgravity?

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Heir to Punk Royalty Will Burn $7 Million Worth of Punk Memorabilia

Son of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren says it’s to spite the Queen

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Facing a Biscuit Shortage, British Citizens Get an Emergency Shipment Flown in From Dubai

The shortage isn’t the only biscuit-related scandal to strike teatime recently

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler speaking at the 2015 TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

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Thanks to the FCC, You Might Soon Have More Control Over Your Personal Data

Regulators are taking on internet service providers over targeted ads

People planning to travel to high-elevation locations in Central and South America like Mexico City are breathing a sigh of relief.

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The CDC Says High Elevation Regions Are Safe From Zika

It’s welcome news for anyone with travel plans

A right whale spotted off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada in 2011.

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Hundreds of Right Whales Are Returning to Cape Cod

Decades have passed since the endangered species regularly frequented Cape Cod Bay

Blu and local activists erased 20 years' worth of his street art from Bologna, Italy.

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A Prominent Street Artist Just Destroyed All of His Works

Blu used a chisel and gray paint to make a point

Women are still rare behind the camera.

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The National Film Board of Canada Will Give 50 Percent of Its Production Budget to Women

The agency thinks it can achieve full gender parity in just three years

Each year, FLAP lays out birds collected by volunteers in a bid to raise awareness about the dangers of bird/building collisions.

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This Pattern Is Made of 2,100 Dead Birds

It’s all part of a bid to raise awareness of the plight of birds that crash into city buildings

NASA's InSight lander inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.

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NASA Delays the InSight Probe’s Voyage to Mars

Originally scheduled for this month, NASA now plans to launch the probe in 2018

Royall has fallen—Harvard Law School wants a new logo.

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Harvard Law Will Ditch Its Signature Shield Because of Its Slaveholding Roots

Student protests upended another on-campus symbol of racism and forced labor

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The Marine Corps Plans to Airlift Over 1,000 Desert Tortoises

Despite the positive intentions behind relocation, conservationists worry that it will hurt the tortoises more than it helps

A view of the total solar eclipse captured from Donggala, Indonesia.

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Check Out These Photos From Last Night’s Solar Eclipse

Parts of the pacific and Indonesia went dark last night as the moon moved directly between Earth and the sun

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