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The "Indomitable" MRI

Raymond Damadian's medical imaging machine set off a revolution but not without controversy

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Shop for This Label: "No Assembly Required"

MIT's campus

Charting the Terrain of Touch

At MIT's Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics, researchers are probing the inner workings of our hands

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Supermodels with Six Legs

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Horning In?

Bighorn sheep have made a big comeback in recent years, but some developers out West think they're intruders

Kerrville Folk Festival

Camping in Concert

At this outdoor folk-music festival in rural Texas, you're not a "Kerrvivor" unless you stay till the end

Saturn, a restored 1906 fly-boat

Afloat with Fly Boats and Leggers

Enthusiasts are rediscovering the vast system of narrow canals that connects England's byways and backways

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Who's a Yuppie Twit?

South Entrance, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery

Art's Moving Experience

Before works go on tour during a three-year museum renovation, there's lots of sprucing up and packing

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The Timeless Art of Crafts

The Ferengi (left) and Borg (right) designs, both developed by Westmore for Star Trek: The Next Generation

Beauty and the Beasts

Coming from a long line of tortured but brilliant makeup artists, Michael Westmore has put the past behind him, boldly going where no one has gone before

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The Pinhole Point of View

A new generation of photographers is pushing the artistic possibilities of the simple, old-fashioned technique of taking pictures through a hole in a box

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People in Glass Houses...

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From Paper to Pixels

Adult tricycle

Bound for Glory

Or maybe not. America's most grueling adult tricycle competition is tough on riders and equipment alike

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Portraits on the Plains

Armed with easel, palette and pencil, George Catlin went west in the 1830s to paint the real "Wild West"

For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals

Book Reviews

For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals

George Mason

George Mason: Forgotten Founder, He Conceived the Bill of Rights

This wise Virginian was a friend to four future presidents, yet he refused to sign the Constitution

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Squaring the Circle Is No Piece of Pi

Mathematicians have sliced, and now supercomputers have crunched, but the mystery of pi goes on and on and...

Mariana fruit bat Pteropus mariannus

Batty About Flying Foxes

Long considered black devils with wings, these bats today are stealing hearts – and mangoes – across Australia

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