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Amerigo Vespucci wasn't entirely heroic—just ask Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Artifacts from the Central Asian nation, including saddles ornamented with gold foil and cinnabar, are on display for the first time in the United States
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The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”
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And why some critics can't stand them
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On Star Wars day, we take a look at the science behind the series' most popular spacecraft and the force fields it flies through
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The S. Dillon Ripley Center hosts an exhibit of more than 300 of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' patents since 1980.
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At a spooky abandoned theme park, once-regal dinosaurs are suffering a second extinction
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In a new book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm traces the steps our species went through to attain a conscience
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Dating back to the 18th century, the dish has jumped from the Mexican silver mines to fast food staple
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Could the design of a Brita filter help us with controlling how much water we waste?
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The Crocodile Trophy mountain biking race is off-road, meaning gravel, rocks, ruts, puddles, dust and lots of crashing
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A damaged skull throws support to the idea that some dome-headed dinosaurs butted heads
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The area between the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Capitol has seen better days, but architects are vying to improve the nation’s front lawn
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Pros and cons of "perforated plastic with photographic emulsion"
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The moon's closest approach to earth will coincide with a perfectly full moon
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The white stuff can fall at any time and almost anywhere, from the streets of Rome to the subtropical Canary Islands
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An important piece of science recently popped up in Times Square, in the form of a 19,000-square-foot interactive map by a Dutch information designer
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