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In-flight virtual reality entertainment? Bunk beds in the cargo hold? These innovations may be the future of flight.
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Within decades the country’s scientific infrastructure went from world-class to shambles. What happened?
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Chicago, home to some of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, throws some pretty unusual challenges at its daring window cleaners
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In 1066, the English king Edward the Confessor lay dying in his bed. Three powerful men had strong claims to succeed him
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Following the 1969 Stonewall Raid, Segal built a life around protest and the quest for equal rights for minority groups
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Despite the fact that they might not like what they learn
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It might be possible to make an external device that protects divers from the deadly condition
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A new show, featuring the paper cutouts, reveals unheralded early Americans, as well as contemporary artists working with this old art form
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Abalone, a large sea snail native to the Western Cape, is a popular local delicacy. To meet demand, the seafood industry created abalone farms
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Forest cover was crucial to avian evolution, a new study on the mass extinction event asserts
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In the 1850s, women’s rights activists briefly adopted a new style in an effort to liberate themselves from heavy dresses
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Reports of these ground-chasms have been swelling in the past few years. Geology helps explain why
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You asked, we answered
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Geologist Andrew C. Scott reconstructs the sites of past blazes to look at our relationship with this elusive element
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A war-weary world needed a new wardrobe, and this cheap, washable attire seemed to rise to the occasion
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The Treaty With the Delawares, signed in 1778, has arrived at the National Museum of the American Indian
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The Wolfberg Arch, located in the Cederberg mountain area in Western Cape, South Africa, is an awe-inspiring 160-foot-long sandstone formation
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These utopic cities—some working, some not—can still be visited today
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As sustainable fashion goes mainstream, multiple designers are turning to fungi for compostable attire
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