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A Stunning Stretch of California's Rugged Coastline Is Now Open to the Public for the First Time in a Century

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A Robot Is Unraveling the Secrets of How Some Bats Bounce Sound Waves Off Leaves to Find Insect Prey

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Three Stunning Ways Biologists Aim to Edit Animal and Plant Genes to Fight Diseases and Extinction

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A Sprawling Sculpture Garden Featuring Modern Masterpieces Is Coming to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

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Oscar Wilde's Portraits, Poems, Letters and Manuscripts Head to Auction 125 Years After His Death

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Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory

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This Dinosaur May Have Used Its Strange Clawed Hands to Pilfer and Pierce Eggs

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These Baffling Bone Artifacts Discovered by an Amateur Archaeologist May Be the World's Oldest Whale Harpoons

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Ötzi the Iceman May Have Carried a Cancer-Causing Strain of HPV, a Common Virus Still Plaguing Humans Today

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'Aha' Moments Seem to Come Out of Nowhere. How Does the Brain Create These Sudden Bursts of Insight?

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