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Not an easy answer. But here are 10 recent studies on what it means to be a mother today
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A new solo exhibition by Lalla Essaydi challenges Western and Muslim perceptions of women's identities
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From one conservationist's perspective, harvesting rainwater doesn't mean high-tech strategies—traditional techniques have been around for centuries
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What's behind recent claims about a milky unpasteurized panacea?
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A new study claims dinosaur farts contributed to prehistoric climate change, but don't believe reports that they gassed themselves to death
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By helping raise their grandchildren, grandmothers might have influenced the spread of certain genes, a new study suggests
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A new made-for-television movie airing May 28 recounts the stormy love affair between the writer and the war correspondent
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Acanthaspis petax, a type of assassin bug, stacks dead ant bodies on its back to confuse predators
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A Victorian-era naturalist thought he'd found a new kind of dinosaur, and he threw a fit when other naturalists disagreed
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The bite of a Goliath bird-eater is hardly worse than a bee sting---but it is among the nastiest things that could skitter across your face in the Amazon
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Humans' big, fast-growing brains and unique style of walking explain why it takes so long for infant skulls to develop
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We now create an enormous amount of digital data every day on smart phones, social networks and sensors. So how do you make sense of all of it?
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Even though dinosaurs never lived in the sea, a few unfortunate specimens created temporary reefs in ancient oceans
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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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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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