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The Stool Bank That Pays $40 a Day for Your Shit

An independent non-profit stool bank called OpenBiome is willing to offer volunteers $40 per deposit [of] a sample of their poo. The stool samples will be used for fecal transplants, to fight the...

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Narcolepsy/Cataplexy

I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, and it can be very frustrating to try to explain what it’s like to people who have never seen narcolepsy in real life, and how much of a struggle it can be. Most...

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The Giant Mauna Kea Telescope Atop a Hawaiian Volcano

An enormous 30m telescope has begun construction atop the volcanic peak of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. After years of planning and discussions, construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) started on...

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Penguin “Jaws”

Penguins may lack teeth, but they have backward facing spines in their throats that grip and guide fish down. This photo of a rockhopper penguin was taken by Will Burrard-Lucas on the Falkland...

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Penguin Rover

Scientists who study wild animals want to get as close as possible to their subjects without stressing them out or disrupting their natural behaviors. [T]he researchers disguised the rover as a...

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A Tediously Accurate Scale Model of the Solar System

If the moon was only a single pixel…how large would the distances between the planets of our solar system be? (Hint: A really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really long way…) Via...

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Four Acre Orb Weaver Spider Web

We were unprepared for the sheer scale of the spider population and the extraordinary masses of both three dimensional and sheet-like webbing that blanketed much of the facility’s cavernous interior....

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The Last Menagerie

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the last year of the last known Passenger Pigeon known as Martha. This marker inspired The Last Menagerie, a line of plates designed to commemorate, educate,...

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Building a Real Lightsaber

Dr. Michio Kaku attempts to build a real Lightsaber from the Star Wars universe using modern technology. Okay, now I know what I want for my birthday. Make it so. (See what I did there?) Theoretical...

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The Color of the Carrot

Researchers with the Agricultural Research Service may have found the best way to entice consumers to eat their veggies: Surprise them. They’re breeding carrots that come in a palette of totally...

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