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Your World This Week: Nov. 29 – Dec. 5

This week in health: Coffee-drinkers may live longer, brain researchers unlock the scientific secret to happiness, utant mosquitoes will help eradicate malaria, AIDS could be conquered within 15 years. The New Mutant Mosquito That Could Eradicate Malaria Forever Malaria is such a persistent blight to mankind that Nobel-prize winning scientist...

By All That's Interesting • Nov 30, 2015

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Your World This Week: Nov. 29 – Dec. 5

This week in health: Coffee-drinkers may live longer, brain researchers unlock the scientific secret to happiness, utant mosquitoes will help eradicate malaria, AIDS could be conquered within 15 years. The New Mutant Mosquito That Could Eradicate Malaria Forever Malaria is such a persistent blight to mankind that Nobel-prize winning scientist...

By All That's Interesting • November 30, 2015

Meet The Dakotaraptor: Feathered, Winged And Lethal

Dakotaraptor, a new dinosaur species discovered in South Dakota, is a far larger relative of the Velociraptor.

By Nickolaus Hines • Nov 6, 2015

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Meet The Dakotaraptor: Feathered, Winged And Lethal

Dakotaraptor, a new dinosaur species discovered in South Dakota, is a far larger relative of the Velociraptor.

By Nickolaus Hines • November 6, 2015

Your World This Week, Nov. 2-Nov. 8

Your primer on climate change this week: Antarctica is actually gaining ice (but scientists aren’t jumping for joy), rising temperatures may make the Persian Gulf uninhabitable by 2090, increasing temperatures mean falling wages, and carbon dioxide emissions will continue to rise in spite of our best efforts to cut greenhouse...

By John Kuroski • Nov 2, 2015

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Your World This Week, Nov. 2-Nov. 8

Your primer on climate change this week: Antarctica is actually gaining ice (but scientists aren’t jumping for joy), rising temperatures may make the Persian Gulf uninhabitable by 2090, increasing temperatures mean falling wages, and carbon dioxide emissions will continue to rise in spite of our best efforts to cut greenhouse...

By John Kuroski • November 2, 2015

The GMO Foods Controversy: What It Is And Why It’s All Wrong

The raging controversy over GMO foods has both sides up in arms. But does either one truly understand what they're even debating?

By Callie Stewart • Nov 1, 2015

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The GMO Foods Controversy: What It Is And Why It’s All Wrong

The raging controversy over GMO foods has both sides up in arms. But does either one truly understand what they're even debating?

By Callie Stewart • November 1, 2015

Celebrate Back To The Future Day With These Astounding Behind-The-Scenes Photos

Ever since Back to the Future II hit theaters in 1989, we’ve all been able to nurse fantastical ideas of what Earth might look like on October 21, 2015. When Marty McFly rode the DeLorean to that very date, he found a world of hoverboards, flying cars, and self-tying shoes....

By John Kuroski • Oct 21, 2015

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Celebrate Back To The Future Day With These Astounding Behind-The-Scenes Photos

Ever since Back to the Future II hit theaters in 1989, we’ve all been able to nurse fantastical ideas of what Earth might look like on October 21, 2015. When Marty McFly rode the DeLorean to that very date, he found a world of hoverboards, flying cars, and self-tying shoes....

By John Kuroski • October 21, 2015

Video Of The Day: This Is How A Human Body Decomposes

Inside the world's largest body farm, where research is conducted on the incredible process of human decomposition.

By All That's Interesting • Oct 20, 2015

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Video Of The Day: This Is How A Human Body Decomposes

Inside the world's largest body farm, where research is conducted on the incredible process of human decomposition.

By All That's Interesting • October 20, 2015

Inside The Lowline Lab, The Prototype For The World’s First Underground Park

The Lowline Lab, a prototype for the larger Lowline underground park, is now open to the public in New York City.

By Nickolaus Hines • Oct 20, 2015

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Inside The Lowline Lab, The Prototype For The World’s First Underground Park

The Lowline Lab, a prototype for the larger Lowline underground park, is now open to the public in New York City.

By Nickolaus Hines • October 20, 2015

Your World This Week, Volume XIII

Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Takes A Big Step Forward Google may have just taken its most important step yet in making the self-driving car a reality. And it didn’t happen in a lab, testing track or anywhere of the sort. It’s happening in a board room. Later this month, auto...

By John Kuroski • Sep 14, 2015

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Your World This Week, Volume XIII

Google’s Self-Driving Car Project Takes A Big Step Forward Google may have just taken its most important step yet in making the self-driving car a reality. And it didn’t happen in a lab, testing track or anywhere of the sort. It’s happening in a board room. Later this month, auto...

By John Kuroski • September 14, 2015

Clyde Tombaugh: To Pluto And Beyond

Clyde Tombaugh's legacy hinges on his discovery of Pluto. But both before and after that moment, his story is extraordinary. Meet the man behind Pluto.

By Briana Jones • Aug 15, 2015

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Clyde Tombaugh: To Pluto And Beyond

Clyde Tombaugh's legacy hinges on his discovery of Pluto. But both before and after that moment, his story is extraordinary. Meet the man behind Pluto.

By Briana Jones • August 15, 2015

The Most Extreme Summer Weather Of 2015

Whether you think they’re signs of global warming or that Mother Nature is just working out some particularly painful kinks, it’s impossible to deny that summer 2015 has seen an insane amount of extreme weather events. From the massive blob of warm water covering thousands of miles in the Pacific...

By Kiri Picone • Aug 6, 2015

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The Most Extreme Summer Weather Of 2015

Whether you think they’re signs of global warming or that Mother Nature is just working out some particularly painful kinks, it’s impossible to deny that summer 2015 has seen an insane amount of extreme weather events. From the massive blob of warm water covering thousands of miles in the Pacific...

By Kiri Picone • August 6, 2015