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Is the day coming when your car will talk to your alarm clock and also check your heart rate?
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This week, experience Mission: Impossible in IMAX, rediscover the iconic work of Andy Warhol, and learn about the most innovative work happening on the Web
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Dental, dietary and environmental clues help explain why the world's largest ape vanished
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Salmon's powerful, ingrained sense of smell allows them to return to the exact stream of their birth for spawning.
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Mount Everest is a just a peewee when compared with such giants as Olympus Mons on Mars
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On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated his telegraph for the first time. But how did he get the idea in the first place?
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Two new films show how far we've come since The Birth of a Nation and In the Heat of the Night
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Science-fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback predicted that, as long as police officers were stuck on terra firma, criminals always would have the edge
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Charles R. Knight, one of the greatest paleoartists ever, battled his boss, artistic society and his own eyesight to bring prehistoric creatures to life
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The black-marble jawfish takes advantage of its coloring to blend in with an octopus and stay safe from predators
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January 8 will be your last chance to see Julia Child's kitchen for a while, so hurry by the American History Museum
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An organic farming network gave my niece the opportunity. Then she gave me the nectar of the gods
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This weekend, watch an Iranian film, attend a stamp collecting workshop or listen to eclectic Baroque chamber music
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Researchers are finding that our behavior may be more hard-wired than we'd like to believe. If so, can we handle the truth?
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The absence of native mammals, aside from bats and pinnipeds, gives the impression that New Zealand is still in the age of dinosaurs
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After stealing $1,500 worth of cooking oil from a Burger King, two men were apprehended siphoning off oil from a Golden Corral
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This has to be the most adorable dinosaur correction I have ever seen
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Being spicy helps a chili plant protect its fruit from fungal rot, but it has a downside in dry conditions
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A father-and-son duo of master Tsimshian carvers create a totem pole for the American Indian Museum
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