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Anonymous Harry Potter Fan Pays An Astounding $394,000 For J.K. Rowling's Chair
On April 6, an anonymous donor paid an astounding $394,000 USD for a rickety old wooden chair. This, of course, was no ordinary chair, but the one J.K. Rowling sat on when she wrote the first two Harry...
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Scott Kelly's Historic "Year in Space" Mission Brings Us One Step Closer to Mars
History was made on March 2, 2016 when a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft traveling from the International Space Station landed in a remote part of Kazakhstan. The landing was cause for celebration as the...
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Surprise! City Birds Are Smarter And Healthier Than Their Country Counterparts!
A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from Canada's McGill University has uncovered that birds who live in urban environments are not just better at problem-solving and more skilled in...
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Why Measuring The Size Of Raindrops From Space May Help Improve Weather...
While weather predictions are getting increasingly accurate, meteorologists are often still unable to gauge the severity of storms. That's because forecasting what the elements have in store for us is...
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"Not So Hidden Mickey" Shaped Solar Farm To Power Orlando's Walt Disney World...
On Tuesday, April 12, representatives from Orlando's Walt Disney World Resort, Duke Energy, and Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) flipped a giant light switch to mark the highly anticipated...
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Japan's New Train Will Be "Invisible"
Japan is famous for its state-of-the-art high-speed railway system. In 2015, its Magnetic Levitation or, Maglev train, which gets its name because it hovers 10 cm above the tracks, set a new speed...
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Simple Blood Test May Be Able To Diagnose Concussions For Up To Seven Days...
Every year more than 2 million people, a quarter of them children, end up in hospital emergency rooms with concussions — And those are the lucky ones! That's because there are millions more that...
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Google's Computer Program Beats World Champion Lee Se-dol At Ancient Chinese...
The fact that computers are getting increasingly smarter is evident. However, they still lack creativity and intuition and hence cannot learn, think and understand like humans — At least, that was the...
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Simple Blood Test May Be Able To Diagnose Concussions For Up To Seven Days...
Every year more than 2 million people, a quarter of them children, end up in hospital emergency rooms with concussions — And those are the lucky ones! That's because there are millions more that...
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Meet DRU — The World's First Pizza Delivery Robot!
What's more exciting than having a fresh hot pizza delivered to your door? How about having it brought to you by a robot? Thanks to Domino’s Robotic Unit or DRU, that just became a reality! On March 8,...
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Spain's Casa del Acantilado (Cliff House) Is An Architectural Marvel
From a distance, the Casa del Acantilado (Cliff House) in Salobrena, Spain looks like something you would expect to encounter in "Game of Thrones" or "The Hobbit." However, come closer and you will...
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Anonymous Harry Potter Fan Pays An Astounding $394,000 For J.K. Rowling's Chair
On April 6, an anonymous donor paid an astounding $394,000 USD for a rickety old wooden chair. This, of course, was no ordinary chair, but the one J.K. Rowling sat on when she wrote the first two Harry...
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Scott Kelly's Historic "Year in Space" Mission Brings Us One Step Closer to Mars
History was made on March 2, 2016 when a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft traveling from the International Space Station landed in a remote part of Kazakhstan. The landing was cause for celebration as the...
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Surprise! City Birds Are Smarter And Healthier Than Their Country Counterparts!
A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from Canada's McGill University has uncovered that birds who live in urban environments are not just better at problem-solving and more skilled in...
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Why Measuring The Size Of Raindrops From Space May Help Improve Weather...
While weather predictions are getting increasingly accurate, meteorologists are often still unable to gauge the severity of storms. That's because forecasting what the elements have in store for us is...
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Go Ahead And Let Out That Long Sigh — It's Good For You!
Just when we think there couldn't possibly be any more mysteries left to solve about the human anatomy, comes another discovery. This one has to do with sighing. It turns out that the involuntary...
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"Twin" Comets Make Historic Back-To-Back Near-Earth Flybys
This past week was an exciting one for astronomy fans. That's because two comets — 252P and the P/2016 BA14 — were scheduled to make their closest approach to Earth, back-to-back. The icy celestial...
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Social Media Helps Kunkush, A Lost Refugee Cat Reunite With His Family
In November 2015, Suva Al Alaf and her five children fled the ISIS-controlled town of Mosul in Iraq and set sail aboard a small boat to Lesbos, Greece. Though the family had to leave behind almost...
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Guess What? Computers Of The Future May Be Able To Detect Boredom!
The days of staring intently at the computer screen pretending to be interested in an assignment even though you are bored out of your mind may soon be coming to an end. That's because if Dr. Harry...
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Easter Celebrations That Go Beyond Egg Rolls And Easter Bunnies
Easter weekend is upon us! For most of you, that means going to an egg roll or two, meeting the Easter bunny, participating in parades and best of all binging on delicious foods like honey-baked ham...
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