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U.S. Army Spc. Amanda Vasquez, with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, salutes the flag in 2009.

The First Two Female Army Rangers Are About to Graduate

After completing a grueling course, two women have proved they have what it takes to join the Army's best

Elizabeth II Isn’t England’s Longest-Ruling Monarch Just Yet

But she's about to set a royal record

Drone Racing Wants to Become a Professional Sport

The Drone Racing League just got $1 million from Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross

Luke Skywalker is packing his bags — for a trip to a Disney theme park

Disney Will Add Star Wars Themed Lands to California and Florida Theme Parks

The 14-acre expansion will feature battles and the Millennium Falcon

The leading hemisphere of Dione shows tectonic faults running across its surface, along with craters, in false color, which was produced by an image in the ultraviolet, green, and infrared wavelengths taken by the Cassini Orbiter. The subtle variations in color may be caused by fine ice particles.

Today, Cassini Will Say Goodbye to Saturn’s Moon Dione

It's curtains for the NASA mission's close relationship with the satellite

The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

Dense smoke rises as fire engines arrive at the blast site after the deadly explosions in Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China.

It's Strangely Difficult to Measure Big Explosions

But is it time for a makeover?

Female saiga at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Russia in 2009

What Killed Over 134,000 Endangered Antelopes?

Experts are closer to an answer

The bust of Nefertiti at the Altes Museum in Berlin

Could a Door in King Tut's Tomb Lead to Nefertiti?

There could be more in Tutanhkamun's burial chamber than meets the eye

Watch the Perseids Peak This Week

Summer's stunning meteor shower is sure to please stargazers

The famous terracotta army guards the tomb of Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang. Dozens of other graves and ruins around China are not so well secured.

What's Behind China's Professional Tomb Raiding Trend?

Move over, Lara Croft: raiding tombs is an increasingly viable career in China

Russia Might Own the North Pole

Thanks to global warming, Russia has claimed a new ocean in the Arctic

The Animas River under better circumstances in 2011.

What's Next for the Animas River?

Cleanup efforts are underway at the river, which turned a bright orange-yellow after a catastrophic chemical spill

Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert" was one of the most valuable paintings stolen from the Gardener Museum

Could This Video Solve One of History's Greatest Art Mysteries?

Footage shows an unknown man entering the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum the night before the infamous robbery

These Academics Are Outracing (and Outwitting) ISIS

Historians, archaeologists and librarians scramble to save precious cultural capital before it can be sold or destroyed by militants

A family tunes in to the 1976 debate

Americans Have Always Loved to Hate Presidential Debates

Audiences are ambivalent — but they still tune in

Jobs holds up an iPhone 4 at a tech conference in 2010.

Steve Jobs is About to Get His Own Opera

But will it include a singing Woz?

The crew of the Bockscar

The Nagasaki Bombing Almost Didn’t Happen

What really happened on the mission to drop the second atomic bomb

Austin Just Sidestepped a Brawl Over BBQ Smoke

Don't mess with Texas...barbecue

Tsuyuko Nakao, 92 and Kinuyo Ikegami, 77 both survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, pictured here in 2010.

The Health Effects of the Atom Bomb Are Still Being Studied

Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors influence worldwide radiation standards, even 70 years later

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