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A storm flipped the ship on its side, spun it around and sent it closer to the edge of the falls. huffp.st/kyJNsOt
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Scientists discovered a whale carcass 2 miles beneath the surface of the ocean on Wednesday as octopuses went to town on the deep-sea buffet. huffp.st/RwARyOR
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to two American and one Japanese men for their work in creating lithium ion batteries huffp.st/nN4BdSF
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Officials quoted the theme song before announcing the winner of year's Nobel for physics huffp.st/PLWA3x4
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to Canadian-American physicist James Peebles, and Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor and Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz. huffp.st/n2M1XHl
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Kaelin, Ratcliffe and Semenza win 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize huffp.st/rkfmnAV
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The dog breeder behind a popular mixed breed has mixed feelings about his canine creation. huffp.st/Q6fmyJI
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In NASA's internal emails, employees questioned how they'd missed a football-field-sized asteroid that narrowly missed Earth. huffp.st/8b5gg2E
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In a tantalizing first, scientists have discovered water at a planet outside our solar system that has temperatures suitable for life. huffp.st/PFeYBR7
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Prepare for ludicrous speed. huffp.st/4RKz1I3
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These little birds will charm the heck out of you. huffp.st/hGMDO8h
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Dorian is expected to strengthen into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm and slam into the U.S. on Monday somewhere between the Florida Keys and southern Georgia. huffp.st/wEXSLhE
Experts were "shocked" by the state of decay at the legendary shipwreck. huffp.st/C0gd13x
This scientist "resurrected the unbread" when he baked sourdough with 4,500-year-old yeast scraped from Egyptian pottery. huffp.st/3MJY6ED
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The 18-story observatory will be built on the summit of Mauna Kea, a mountain that is sacred in Native Hawaiian culture. huffp.st/rlgLJY2
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Researchers hope to see if Titan has the conditions to support microbial life. huffp.st/dFtfh67
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An astronaut who flew on NASA's first space station back in the 1970s, Skylab's Bill Pogue, had a bit of his ashes on board, along with more than 150 other deceased people. huffp.st/LP9nrQ4
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A glint of light was spotted days before the rover detected an elevation in methane on the planet. huffp.st/HVlCPOG
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It's the second ever video of a giant squid in its natural habitat, and the first ever in the Gulf of Mexico. huffp.st/857rU2N
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“Whatever it is, wherever it came from," it's 5 times bigger than the Big Island of Hawaii. huffp.st/l7SU1QF
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