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A Smithsonian study blaming cats for bird deaths angered some cat lovers. Now, an effort is underway in local neighborhoods to confirm the results
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It’s official: Elements 114 and 116 do exist and belong on the periodic table
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Here's the scoop on four cases of criminal behavior involving the local ice cream man
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A fresh coating of dried mud gave the 150-million-year-old tracks a more recent look, as if dinosaurs had walked by just last week
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A visit to Thailand unfortunately led to a meal of Italian food
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The wicker ancylid, declared extinct in 2000, has been found alive and well in Choccolocco Creek
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Events for the week of June 6 include spacesuits, a quilting demonstration, ikebana and more
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Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus were fundamentally different, and they remain among the most bizarre dinosaurs yet discovered
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A new study provides insight into how convection creates sunspots
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The Bear Awareness Days event raises awareness about the animals in general and teaches about conservation issues that affect all bear species
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My first epiphany was that gardening has a lot more to do with encouraging death than life
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Should Mamenchisaurus go by the nickname Neckita? Mei Mei? Tiny? Vote now
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DC electro-pop duo Bluebrain have released a location-aware album app that serves as a soundtrack for the National Mall
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The best of what's being written about dinosaurs in the blogosphere
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Events for the weekend of June 3-4 include jazz, a Nigerian art lecture, and Family Day at the Renwick
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Scientists have generated the first video of a shock wave from a trombone
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USDA began offering nutritional advice in 1894. We had 12 food groups in the 1930s, seven in the 1940s, four in the 1950s, then a pyramid and now a plate
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Whale sharks gather off of the Yucatán Peninsula every summer for one big feeding frenzy
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The area is piled high with sedimentary rock from the heyday of the dinosaurs. At a few spots, it's easy to see the animals' tracks
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The bar-headed goose spends its winters at sea level in India and its summers in central Asia
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