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Beginning in the 1880s, amateur photographer Wilson A. Bentley considered the endlessly varied crystals "miracles of beauty"
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Can listening to storms help us understand them better? A meteorologist and a music technologist think so
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After playing games with his son, a Duke physician invented a medical tool that could put ultrasound imaging in the hands of more doctors
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The famed chimp researcher didn’t want yet another documentary made about her. <i>Jane</i> changed her mind
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The movie about a young man struggling to find his way in the world mesmerized the nation when it debuted
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The fussy but brave “protocol droid” plays the role of the Greek chorus in the Star Wars franchise
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The Titanic was specifically constructed to survive a high-impact collision like the one that sunk her
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Scientists created cubic zirconia replicas of the historic gem's previous forms—the original brought from India and the famous "French Blue"
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These books not only inspired awe and wonder—they helped us better understand the machinations of our world
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A new exhibition of inventions that bombed boldly celebrates the world’s most creative screw-ups
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Everyone knows about Robert Scott’s doomed race to the South Pole in 1911. But on that same expedition three of his men made a death-defying trip
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In the wake of the war against Isis in Iraq, an ominous journey along the once-mighty river finds a new crisis lurking in the shallows
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MIT engineers have developed an app that uses smartphone sensors to determine why your car's making that funny noise
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On April 5, 1991, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 was making a routine landing. Suddenly, the plane tilts dangerously to the left
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Ivan Chermayeff was a brilliant designer, a gifted artist and the purveyor of a unique visual language, says Smithsonian curator Ellen Lupton
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It’s been 40 years since ‘Saturday Night Fever’—a gritty film powered by music, machismo and masterful footwork—became a cultural phenomenon
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A waterfront neighborhood in Toronto will be a test bed for technological innovations. It also raises concerns about privacy.
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In some species, however, deporting your own family members is the norm
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