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10 common skin conditions

Here's a countdown of 10 common skin conditions, some benign and others life-threatening.

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Skin: Facts about the body's largest organ and its functions

The skin is the body's largest organ and performs many vital functions.

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Roman temple found in France may have been dedicated to war god Mars

A large temple possibly used by Roman soldiers for hundreds of years has been unearthed by archaeologists in northwest France.

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Which ancient Egyptian dynasty ruled the longest?

The 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt, which reigned from about 1550 B.C. to 1292 B.C., was the longest lasting.

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UV light reveals hidden, never-before-seen version of the Gospel of Matthew on ancient parchment

A historians just found a hidden, ancient fragment of the Bible in the Vatican that no one has seen before.

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Nearly 150 genes involved in cartilage development may control human height, study suggests

In a study of mouse and human genes, scientists pinpointed 145 genes that regulate the cartilage cells in kid's growth plates and could determine how tall they grow.

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What is a brain freeze?

Brain freeze, or "ice cream headache," is a sudden, stabbing pain in the head caused by eating or drinking something cold.

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Mystery of Roman coins discovered on shipwreck island has archaeologists baffled

Two silver coins minted in during the Roman Empire have been found on a remote and uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea. Archaeologists have no idea how they got there.

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Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves

Wild elephants play, help sick members of their species and babysit each other's young, suggesting they domesticated themselves.

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52 million-year-old bat skeleton is the oldest ever found and belongs to a never-before-seen species

The bat skeletons unearthed in southwest Wyoming are the oldest ever found, and their discovery has sparked a reshuffle in the bat family tree.

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Scientists create 'slits in time' in mind-bending physics experiment

Researchers replicated the classic double slit experiment using lasers, but their slits are in time not space.

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25 of the strangest ancient sea monsters

The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive today.

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Why don't hurricanes form at the equator?

Here's why hurricanes, also known as tropical cyclones and typhoons, don't form at the equator and why it would be rare for them to cross it.

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Scientists blasted Barbies with liquid nitrogen to test a new method of moon dust cleanup — and it worked extremely well

Researchers have developed a liquid-nitrogen spray that rids spacesuits of lunar dust.

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Where is Alexander the Great's tomb?

Based on ancient writings, legends and recent discoveries, where might Alexander the Great be buried?

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What's the highest a mountain can grow on Earth?

Although a mountain could theoretically grow taller than Mount Everest, forces like gravity and erosion work against it.

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Why does the date of Easter change every year?

Easter can fall on any Sunday between March 22 and April 25. The date took millennia to standardize for surprisingly complex reasons.

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Mysterious mosaics depicting Medusa uncovered at 2nd-century Roman villa

Two Roman-era mosaics depicting the snake-haired mythological figure Medusa were unearthed at the Villa of the Antonines in Italy.

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The smallest and largest creatures make up most of Earth's biomass, surprising study finds

Contrary to a finding from the 1960s, a new study reveals that the bulk of Earth's biomass comes from giant and tiny organisms.

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Alan Turing's famous mathematical model was right all along, chia seed experiment reveals

For the first time, scientists using chia seed experiments have confirmed that Alan Turing's mathematical model can explain patterns seen in nature.

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Fibromyalgia: Symptoms, diagnosis and treatments

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes pain all over the body, fatigue and poor sleep.

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Scientists may have uncovered the oldest evidence of a meteoroid hitting Earth ever

Geologists have discovered the earliest evidence of a meteoroid collision with Earth: tiny fragments of melted rock that showered down on our planet 3.48 billion years ago.

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Stephen Hawking's famous black hole paradox may finally have a solution

The 'Hawking radiation' emitted by black holes may be able to carry information after all, a new solution to Stephen Hawking's famous paradox suggests.

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1,100-year-old 'ceremonial' Viking shields were actually used in battle, study suggests

The Viking shields found on the Gokstad ship in 1880 were not strictly ceremonial and may have been used in hand-to-hand combat, according to a new analysis.

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Clever, bird-like dinosaurs that lived 74 million years ago got cozy in communal nests, study suggests

New research has found that troodontids, a group of bird-like dinosaurs that lived 74 million years ago, had high enough body temperatures to brood their eggs in communal nests.

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