Dec 30 2014
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Physics students at the University of Leicester claim to have calculated the amount of energy required to transform water into wine. Warning: Don't try this at home.
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Dec 30 2014
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The tech heads at Spark might not have the blacksmithing skills of the elves of Gondolin, but they're still…
Dec 30 2014
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Last month, a school in Michigan temporarily closed as whooping cough began spreading among the 1,200 students. It's…
Dec 30 2014
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It's been nearly four years since the Messenger spacecraft arrived at Mercury, and during that time it's exceeded…
Dec 29 2014
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Argentinian President Christina Fernández de Kirchner has just adopted a 21-year-old man as her godson. This is a…
Dec 29 2014
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The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan formally ended its combat mission yesterday, handing responsibility to the…
Dec 29 2014
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The official website of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has a forum where Hermit Kingdom groupies from…
Dec 29 2014
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Pope Francis has made an ambitious New Year's resolution for 2015: the Vatican has announced his intention to push…
Dec 26 2014
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If a global catastrophe strikes, chances are that efforts to store food will keep most people fed for only a year.…
Dec 26 2014
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Animals are definitely sending us a message that they value their privacy. First we had a hawk smack a drone out…
Dec 26 2014
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Timing is everything in warfare, so here's a helpful tip for any up-and-coming global superpowers, evil masterminds…
Dec 26 2014
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Ever get the feeling that someone is staring over your shoulder? The Cassini spacecraft captured this rare view of…
Dec 24 2014
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This is the time of year when, for American Jews such as myself, visions of Chinese plum sauce dance in my head.…
Dec 24 2014
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The ESA has just released this stunning ultra high definition timelapse video, combining 12,500 images taken by…
Dec 23 2014
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Since 2009, archaeologists have been slowly excavating the ancient town of Magdala—thought to be the home of Mary…
Dec 23 2014
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Around 265 million years ago, much of the territory we now know as Texas was underwater, when the Earth's continents…
Dec 23 2014
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The Panspermia Hypothesis holds that life on our planet traces its origins to space—say, a microbe-laden meteorite…
Dec 23 2014
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The speeder bike chase in Return of the Jedi? Amateurs, compared to this footage taken by a camera mounted on a Nort…
Dec 19 2014
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Secularism is on the rise worldwide. Some attribute this to enhanced feelings of political and economic well-being:…
Dec 19 2014
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The State Department has blocked the release of declassified documents about the CIA's role in the 1953 coup that…