Found: Mysterious, Empty 'Ghost' Ship
In Robertsport, Liberia, a Panama-flagged ship recently washed up on the shore. The last time the Tamaya 1 had reported its coordinates, it was heading towards Dakar, Senegal, on Africa’s west coast....
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How Counting Horses and Reading Dogs Convinced Us Animals Could Think
Hans selecting answers with his nose. (Photo: Public Domain)Inky the octopus, who made a crafty escape from his tank in New Zealand a few months ago, joined a continuous stream of...
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Museo Nazionale della Pasta Alimentari in Roma, Italy
It makes perfect sense that the world's only pasta museum is located in none other than Rome, Italy–the Italians have perfected the art of flour, water and salt.Established in 1993 with the help of the...
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Anyone Can Now Buy One of the World's Most Expensive Teas
Care for a cuppa? (Photo: kurund jalmi/CC BY 2.0)More like Darjeeling UNlimited. For the first time in over a century and a half, India’s famed, but exclusively monetized Darjeeling tea will be...
View ArticleWatch Octopus Babies Burst into the World
Have you ever stopped to think about how octopuses are born? Do they have eight legs off the bat, or do they start with one? Is it more like cows (one big baby at a time) or like frogs (zillions of...
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See A Restored Mail-Order Sears Home From 1916
Reddit user RealHotSauceBoss's grandfather's North Dakota home, in 1916 and 2016. (Photo: Imgur)Next time you need some Ikea inspiration, take a look at the family in this photo. See that house they're...
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Our Sewers Speak Volumes. These Robots Are Ready to Listen
Mario, a sewage sampler robot descending into the underworld. (Photo: MIT Senseable City Lab)When you think of the Super Mario Brothers, you might think of little mustachioed men shimmying up and down...
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Bosco Italia in Italy
Nestled on the side of a hill in Umbria, Italy is an unusual sight: a gigantic map of Italy, made entirely out of pine trees.Trees line the hills and mountains of Umbria in patches, so if one were to...
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The 'Lord of the Rings' Volcano Is Now Active
Mount Ruapehu, in New Zealand, which was used in the Lord of the Rings films. (Photo: Mirko Thiessen/CC BY-SA 3.0)There's "heightened unrest" at Mount Doom, er, Mount Ruapehu, the real-life backdrop...
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Everything You Know About Mole Sauce Is A Lie
Different mole sauces on display in Oaxaca. (Photo: David Boté Estrada/CC BY-SA 2.0)If you were to set up a word association game in which you tell Americans the word mole, the Mexican sauce, it’s...
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Umschreibung in München, Germany
Hidden within an office building in Munich, a staircase seemingly leads you up... to nowhere. "Umschreibung" is in fact not a staircase at all, but an ominous sculpture by Danish artist Olafur...
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Psychic Snail Sex Couldn't Replace the Telegraph, But One Frenchman Sure Tried
Jacques Toussaint Benoît believed that snails, once mated, had a lifelong telepathic bond. (Photo: Pierre Watson/shutterstock.com)Seldom has the race to create a secure and instantaneous means of...
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Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Abandoned Water Slides in Villa Park,...
From a passing glance, it simply looks like a large, overgrown hill. Step closer and you’ll find the abandoned remnants of a once wild and wonderful waterpark.Hidden in the brambles by Route 83 in...
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Scientists Just Found Cells They Thought Could Never Exist
Two mitochondria. (Photo: Louisa Howard/Public Domain)On Thursday, scientists made a surprise announcement. From a gut microbe in a chinchilla owned by one of the scientists, they had discovered some...
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Glen Arbor, Michigan
Stretching 35 miles along the northwest coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakefront encompasses 50,000 acres of unique "Third Coast" terrain, including the evocative...
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Sewerage Science Museum in Ōsaka-shi, Japan
Wastewater management systems are as crucial to modern urban landscapes as they are invisible to the people they serve. The Sewerage Science Musuem in Osaka seeks to draw back the curtain and foster...
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Scientists Say Egypt is in Denial Over Hidden Rooms in King Tut's Tomb
A bust of Queen Nefertiti. (Photo: Philip Pikart/CC BY-SA 3.0)Scientists said earlier this year that they had found some secret rooms in Tutankhamen's tomb. What could they contain? A popular theory...
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The Not-So-Abandoned Town of Zaña in Zaña, Peru
Just inland and to the south of bustling Chiclayo lies the reputed "ghost town" of Zaña. Tucked in a fertile agricultural valley, the tiny town teems with ruins dating back to Peru's colonial era and –...
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Meet the Fish That Made America Great
Consider the shad. (Image: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank/Public domain)Of all the species that were once absurdly abundant in American landscape—the bison, the passenger pigeon—the American shad are...
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The Hidden Beauty That Only Satellites Can See
Extraordinary colors in Libya's sand dunes, as captured by Sentinel-2A. (Photo: ESA)Right now, high above us, are a suite of satellites called Sentinels. Operated by the European Space Agency, they are...
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