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Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
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How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Continues to Impact Modern Life
For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...
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Coal Recovered From the Titanic and Thousands of Other Historic Shipwreck Artifacts Are Going to Auction
The Shipwreck Treasure Museum in Cornwall, England, is selling its collection, which includes items connected to nearly 150 ...
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See New Images of Pesto, Australia’s Enormous Baby Penguin, in His ‘Awkward Phase,’ Molting His Downy Feathers
The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to lose his youthful down, a process that will give ...
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When Art Thieves Stole Four Andy Warhol Prints, They Didn’t Realize Only Two Would Fit in the Getaway Car
The robbers only made away with two of the screen prints, which they swiped from a gallery in the Netherlands. They abandoned ...
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Travelers Can Now Buy a Can of ‘100 Percent Authentic Air’ From Italy’s Lake Como
It's not the first time savvy entrepreneurs have marketed canned air to tourists. Similar products have been sold at vacation ...
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Hurricane Helene Battered the ‘Salamander Capital of the World’ With Floods and Landslides. Will the Beloved Amphibians Survive the Aftermath?
When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...
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A Rare Triassic Fossil Found in Brazil Could Shed Light on the Origin of Dinosaurs
The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...
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Rare ‘Terror Bird’ Fossil Found in Colombia Reveals the Enormous Size of a Prehistoric Predator
The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...
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These Groundbreaking Pilots Made History 30 Years Ago as the First American Women to Fly Combat Missions
Launching from the deck of the USS Eisenhower, these women showed that being a good aviator has nothing to do with gender ...
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Tour Guide at Medieval Manor House Discovers Mysterious Etchings Meant to Repel Evil, Trap Demons and Curse Enemies
A "staggering array" of markings have been hiding in plain sight carved into the walls of Gainsborough Old Hall, a ...
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Japan’s Mount Fuji Has Now Remained Snowless for the Longest Time in Its 130-Year Record
After a summer that tied for the country's hottest, meteorologists say an unusually warm autumn is delaying snowfall ...