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The Mysterious Rosetta Stone Turns 218: Here's Why It's So Cool
July 19, 2017 | ArticleOn July 19, 1799, the now-famous basalt tablet called the Rosetta Stone was discovered. The tablet has a weird and wild history and helped decipher masses of texts written in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Exhuming Salvador Dalí: Paternity Suit Leads to Artist's Grave
July 19, 2017 | ArticleIn a surreal development almost worthy of one of his paintings, Salvador Dalí's grave is scheduled to be opened in an effort to collect DNA samples that could settle a paternity claim against the artist's estate.
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Humans Have Produced Whopping 9 Billion Tons of Plastic
July 19, 2017 | ArticleSince large-scale manufacturing of plastics took off in the 1950s and until 2015, humans have produced approximately 9 billion tons of plastic.
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The Larsen C Iceberg Is Already Cracking Up
July 19, 2017 | ArticleIt's been less than a week, but the Larsen C ice shelf and the iceberg it calved are already changing.
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Aardvarks May Starve to Death in Warming World
July 19, 2017 | ArticleAardvarks may struggle to survive as climate change heats up their habitat.
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Future Space Colony? Maybe We Should Look Beyond Mars to Saturn's Titan Moon
July 19, 2017 | ArticleInstead of just sending humans on a one-shot mission to look for life on the surface, a new paper envisions a future outpost on Titan that could generate power for years.
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Mysterious, Gross Yellow Fluff Balls Wash Up on French Shores
July 19, 2017 | ArticleThousands of clumps of weird, yellow foam have washed ashore on France's northern coastline, but no one knows exactly what it is.
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Photos: Weird Yellow Fluff Balls Wash Up on French Beaches
July 19, 2017 | Image AlbumWeird, yellow fluffballs that look a bit like paraffin wax washed ashore along beaches in Northern France this week.
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New 3D Computer Chip Uses Nanotech to Boost Processing Power
July 19, 2017 | ArticleA new type of 3D computer chip that combines two cutting-edge nanotechnologies could dramatically increase the speed and energy efficiency of processors, a new study finds.
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Underwater Cypress Forest from Ice Age Reveals Its Secrets
July 19, 2017 | ArticleAn underwater forest of bald cypress that dates to 50,000 years ago may reveal secrets of a rapidly changing climate in the last ice age.
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