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Should you flush with toilet lid up or down? Study says it doesn’t matter

Enlarge / Whether the toilet lid is up or down doesn't make much difference in the spread of airborne bacterial and viral particles.Peter Dazeley...

Someone finally cracked the “Silk Dress cryptogram” after 10 years

Enlarge / “Paul Ramify loamy event false new event” was one of the lines written on two sheets of paper found in a hidden...

Cerne Abbas Giant is a depiction of Hercules

Enlarge / Behold, the "Rude Man" chalk giant carved on a hill above the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England.Barry Batchelor/PA Images/Getty Images...

Ancient desert mega-structures were planned using carved maps to scale

Enlarge There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a...

Study: the best free-throw shooters share these biomechanical traits

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days...

How archaeologists reconstructed the burning of Jerusalem in 586 BCE

EnlargeAssaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once...

Aaarr matey! Life on a 17th century pirate ship was less chaotic than you think

Enlarge There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a...

These scientists explored the good vibrations of the bundengan and didgeridoo

Enlarge / The bundengan (left) began as a combined shelter/instrument for duck hunters but it is now often played onstage.Utrezz0707/CC BY-SA 4.0 There's...

A forensic artist has given a 500-year-old Inca “ice maiden” a face

Enlarge / The final approximation of the Incan girl dubbed "Juanita" wearing clothing similar to what she was wearing when she died. Dagmara Socha...

People can tell what you want to know when you shake wrapped Christmas gifts

Enlarge / Shake, shake, shake: this adorable young child would love to guess what he's getting for Christmas this year. Johns Hopkins University ...

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