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A system developed by engineers in India automatically detects when a driver's phone is in use and uses low-range mobile jammer to prevent calls and texts
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A rare footprint places a strange group of dinosaurs in Cretaceous Alaska
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Archaeologists working in northern Germany may have found one of the most important cities in Viking history—Sliasthorp, where once sat Scandanavian kings
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The Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado was the most destructive in the state's history
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“Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon” shows how one relatively unknown but well-connected artist was linked to many of art and society’s most influential people
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Today at the Folklife Festival: John Philip Sousa's legacy, line dancing and stained glass crafts
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In a new study, evolutionary biologist Sergey Gavrilets makes a fascinating claim for how monogamy took root several million years ago
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A piece of history on the Pacific Coast was almost lost to budget cuts, until a Russian billionaire stepped in to save the endangered state park
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Where to see the greatest trees in the world
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The two-piece bathing suit got skimpier and more scandalous in 1946 Paris
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This weekend, become a constellation, make your own Silk Road mirror and enjoy the Classical stylings of pianist James D'León
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A newly-discovered fossil raises the possibility that all dinosaur lineages were fuzzy
Scientists have found that bat species that hibernate in clusters are more likely to be struck by the dreaded disease and may be at risk of extinction
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Fracking can go ahead in North Carolina, all because one tired legislator pushed the wrong button
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July 5th, 1946 is classically regarded as the birth date of what we now call the bikini. But that version of history misses the long view
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John D. Rockefeller Sr. epitomized Gilded Age capitalism. Ida Tarbell was one of the few willing to hold him accountable
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The rage over CERN's font choice drives the question: How would the world have reacted to Newton's world-changing tome had Comic Sans existed at the time?
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