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Drought and over-pumping has led to groundwater losses in the Middle East that equal almost the entire volume of the Dead Sea, a new study shows.
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The government can't get their hands on you when you're floating above Earth
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Meteor scientist Cari Corrigan says that the type of destruction wrought by today's meteor explosion over Russia is exceedingly rare
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At the institution for a year of repairs, the president's gravemarker calls the University of Missouri campus home
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A new project asks citizens to monitor their backyard rinks, helping to track how a warming climate is affecting Canada's skating tradition
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Ten years ago, the spice company identified chipotle as a taste on the rise. They're back at it again with new predictions for 2013
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Innovative architects are experimenting with small unmanned aerial vehicles to prove that drones can do more than cause destruction
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The Armory Show provoked reactions of love and hate; today it is recognized as changing American art forever
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A clever print by designer Jacqueline Schmidt pays homage to 12 different species with one thing in common—they mate for life
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The sugarcane trail takes the author across the Andes, into liquor distilleries and from juice shack to juice shack as he pursues fermented sugarcane wine
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A study shows that wild perch are less fearful, eat faster and are more anti-social when exposed to a common pharmaceutical pollutant
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This week, indulge your creative side, hear Arab music, and meet a children's book author
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What happens when a comedy staple of mid-century sitcoms reappears as a late-century Saturday morning tradition?
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Former Smithsonian taxidermist Paul Rhymer is a judge on "Immortalized," a TV competition that pits up-and-comers against superstars in the field
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Valentine's Day can be an occasion for quirky expressions of love
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Scans show that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they take risks, helping to pinpoint the political party a person prefers
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The new species of owl makes a distinctive "pwok" call and is unique to just one island in Indonesia
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Don't understand love? Not to worry. Scientists continue to study away to try to make sense of it for the rest of us
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A look at the mating systems of some monogamous ocean animals show that finding life partners helps species protect themselves and their young
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Enslaved at age 8, America's first black woman poet won her freedom with verse
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