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MIT scientists have created thin polymer sheets that expand and contract when in contact with water, lifting several times their weight
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How does the Scoville Scale rate the relative spiciness of a chili pepper?
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A clever artist uses a scalpel and tweezers to cut beautiful bird silhouettes out of feathers
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Decades before the debut of the Consumer Electronics Show, early adopters flocked to extravagant high-tech fairs in New York and Chicago
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From tropical mountains, we descended into a landscape of flailing-armed cacti, spiny succulents like giant artichokes and sand dunes as high as mountains
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In acidic water, drilling sponges damage scallops twice as quickly, worsening the effects of ocean acidification
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This week, protest racial segregation in the 1960s, discover DC's "slow food" movement and learn to write in Arabic
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Across Australia wildfires are raging. And yes, there is a climate connection
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New research on Pacific corals that trace climate patterns back 7,000 years shows how recent El Niños compare with those of the past
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From food pairings to the best brews for beginners, Dan Koester presents a comprehensive guide to craft beer
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A new study shows that when our fingers get wrinkly, they're better at gripping wet objects
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A new study suggests a link, but it's important to remember the difference between causation and correlation
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When the President signed the fiscal cliff deal from 4,800 miles away, he did it with the help of a device that dates back to Thomas Jefferson
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The minister of armaments was happy to tell his captors about the war machine he had built. But it was a different story when he was asked about the Holocaust
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Ancient Roman pills, preserved in sealed tin containers on the seafloor, may have been used as eye medicine
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The rescued baby is bringing attention to Lewa's efforts to protect its ailing rhino populations that are being picked off by poachers
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Banned in England until 1961, a copy of this 17th-century text is going up for auction
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One goby species in Hawaii uses its suction-cup mouth for both feeding and scaling walls, presenting an evolutionary chicken-or-egg conundrum
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After unpacking and assembling his bicycle at the airport terminal, the author heads north on the Pan-American Highway toward the mountain town of Canta
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This week, draw your way through the collection, join a chorale, and hear from NBA Commissioner David Stern plus basketball superfan Wolf Blitzer
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