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Using videos of thirsty customers lining up for bar-side drinks, they created algorithm equivalents for "I want a drink" body language
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Mathematic and musical detectives have discovered that perhaps Beethoven's tempo was so strange because his metronome was broken
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The Smithsonian Institution's 12th Secretary says he'll step down next October
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Dan Corson's latest installation in Seattle—flower sculptures that light up at night—show that solar energy is viable even in the cloudy Pacific Northwest
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The best questions and responses as pulled from Twitter
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Flies, for example, can perceive visual stimuli four times faster than we can
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Acid rain is "dissolving the surface of the Earth," making streams more alkaline in the process
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Narcis Monturiol loved the ocean’s corals so much, that he built a machine so he could better enjoy them
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Today the Zoo's veterinarians gave the giant panda cub a full exam and pronounced the cub healthy and thriving
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The idea of there being one genetic "you" is up in the air
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Two cups of flour, a nice zinfandel, a pinch of sun-dried tomatoes, and 3 chopped squirrels
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Of the 67 mass shootings in the US over the past three decades, more than three-quarters of the 143 guns used were obtained legally
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Three new exhibitions explore humans' relationship to the ocean
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Google has teemed with the Halo Trust, a non-profit that works to remove land mines and other unexploded ordinances that often linger after a conflict ends
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We all know the symptoms: the red sports car, the leather jacket, the journey to "find oneself," the tattoos
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White whales, such as the recently spotted humpback nicknamed Migaloo, are rare and elusive creatures. How many are there and why are they white?
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In New York City you are never more than six feet away from a rat and its diseases
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Earwax collected from a beached whale shows that the creature ingested a host of toxins, such as DDT and mercury, throughout its life
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A three minute video shows 1000 years of European conquest
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The mysterious man claims to have never attended school, received any vaccinations and to have met only a few people throughout his life
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