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Edith Bouvier Beale at her home "Grey Gardens" in January 1972 in New York. A 1975 documentary by that name explores the reclusive lives of Beale and her mother, living in their dilapidated house with over 50 cats.
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A key protein called Reelin may help stave off Alzheimer's disease, according to a growing body of research.
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There are over eight hundred species of leeches, but researchers estimate that only ten percent of all leeches are terrestrial.
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Boat docks sit on dry cracked earth at the Great Salt Lake's Antelope Island Marina in 2021 near Syracuse, Utah.
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams wave as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on June 5.
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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and the Starliner spacecraft
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A bipartisan bill seeks to ban octopus farming in the U.S., outlawing a practice that has drawn controversy in Spain. Here, an octopus is seen at the Oceanopolis sea center in Brest, western France.
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A deep sea shark and several eels are attracted to bait placed at the summit of the Cook seamount, as seen from the Pisces V submersible during a dive to the previously unexplored seamount off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island on Sept. 6, 2016.
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Rev. Charles Duplessis walks by his solar panel-topped house in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency this week awarded the city nearly $50 million to help pay for installing solar on low to middle income homes.
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In this photo released by the National Park Service, park staff assess the damage to Biscuit Basin boardwalks after a hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., on Tuesday.
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This photo, provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, shows a Matschie's tree kangaroo joey that made its first appearance from its mother's pouch at New York's Bronx Zoo, last Thursday. The joey, born at the end of December, is the second of its species born at the Bronx Zoo and to this female since 2021.
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the mission released 25 views of cosmic objects ranging from supernova remnants to galaxy clusters and more.
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Glyptodonts were giant, armadillo-like shelled mammals that went extinct about 10,000 years ago. A study reveals that cut marks on a glyptodont fossil in South America could have been made by humans a little over 20,000 years ago.
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Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration against the Costa Rican government near Germany's presidential residence during a visit of Costa Rica's president in Berlin in May 2012. Greenland police said they arrested Watson on Sunday on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan.
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New insights into the brain's waste-removal system could one day help researchers better understand and prevent many brain disorders.
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