Archaeologists have discovered the wreckage of a 17th century ship they believe to be from the famed Captain Henry Morgan's fleet, lost off the coast of Panama...
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NASA spent decades to launch the space shuttles, and now it will take a century to clean up the chemical messes left behind.
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Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, lost about $6.7 billion this week.
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More people in Scotland take part in dance activities than football, the Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST) reveals.
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An in-depth investigation of what lives inside the human belly button uncovers hundreds of organisms.
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Dieters struggle to lose weight because a lack of nutrition forces their brain cells to eat themselves, making the feeling of hunger even stronger, scientists claim.
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Scientists Discover Two Never-Before-Seen Kinds of Water Waves...
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A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically modified female beagle, named Tegon and born in 2009, has been found to glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light if given a doxycycline antibiotic...
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Up to four new species of unusual shrews that live partly in trees have been found in an isolated Indonesian jungle, scientists say...
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Continuing its practice of adapting Western television shows to the Afghan context, Tolo TV is rolling out its newest creation: an Afghan version of The Office set in the fictional Ministry of Garbage...
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Cancerous tumors are parasitic organisms according to a paper published in the July 1 issue of the journal Cell Cycle...
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In 1903, 3,000 of the earliest teddy bears were sent by ship from Germany to America only for them to disappear. What happened?
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The human brains, capable as it is of amazing mental feats, comes with a downside: it shrinks as we get older, contributing to memory loss...
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Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing into eastern Kenya to escape hunger, drought and Islamist militias in Somalia. Their new home is the world's biggest refugee camp in Dadaab, which some of them will never leave...
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Nineteen years ago three men had the idea of a regular lunch club for crime experts that would try to solve some of the United States' most baffling homicides. The Vidocq Society has now been instrumental in solving hundreds of crimes.
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An African rat chews poison bark, then wears the deadly drool—making the rodent the first animal known to apply external lethal poison.
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A killer plant kills and "eats" a blue tit at a garden nursery in Somerset.
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(08-03) 08:33 PDT STOCKHOLM, (AP) -- A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby....
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I couldn't find a record for the most complex dot-to-dot drawing, so I decided to set one myself. I created an A0 poster with dots numbered from 1 to 6,329 and took a time lapse video of myself linking them all up over 9 hours...
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An algae bloom, or "green tide," has clogged nearly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) of the Yellow Sea...
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In Indonesi, cockerels whose call is like a human laugh are sold for many a penny.
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Check out this amazing gallery of pictures from The Telegraph...
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A 200-year-old bottle of 1811 Chateau d’Yquem has set a new Guinness World Record for the world’s most valuable bottle of white wine, after it was sold for 75,000 pounds.
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A mythical swamp monster "hiding" under Auckland is threatening to derail a project to improve the New Zealand city's traffic gridlock...
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This image of an exquisite puff of interstellar gas, resembling a union of soccer ball and jellyfish, was released July 25 by the Gemini Probe...
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