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Decades before the debut of the Consumer Electronics Show, early adopters flocked to extravagant high-tech fairs in New York and Chicago
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From tropical mountains, we descended into a landscape of flailing-armed cacti, spiny succulents like giant artichokes and sand dunes as high as mountains
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In acidic water, drilling sponges damage scallops twice as quickly, worsening the effects of ocean acidification
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This week, protest racial segregation in the 1960s, discover DC's "slow food" movement and learn to write in Arabic
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New research on Pacific corals that trace climate patterns back 7,000 years shows how recent El Niños compare with those of the past
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From food pairings to the best brews for beginners, Dan Koester presents a comprehensive guide to craft beer
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A new study shows that when our fingers get wrinkly, they're better at gripping wet objects
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A new study suggests a link, but it's important to remember the difference between causation and correlation
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When the President signed the fiscal cliff deal from 4,800 miles away, he did it with the help of a device that dates back to Thomas Jefferson
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The minister of armaments was happy to tell his captors about the war machine he had built. But it was a different story when he was asked about the Holocaust
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Ancient Roman pills, preserved in sealed tin containers on the seafloor, may have been used as eye medicine
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One goby species in Hawaii uses its suction-cup mouth for both feeding and scaling walls, presenting an evolutionary chicken-or-egg conundrum
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After unpacking and assembling his bicycle at the airport terminal, the author heads north on the Pan-American Highway toward the mountain town of Canta
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This week, draw your way through the collection, join a chorale, and hear from NBA Commissioner David Stern plus basketball superfan Wolf Blitzer
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Giving computers vision, through pattern recognition algorithms, could one day make them better than doctors at spotting tumors and other health problems.
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Chemical analysis shows that the meteorite, discovered in Morocco, contains ten times as much water as any Martian rock previously studied
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A professor from the 19th century will take your questions, a Mayan weaver will craft a keepsake and an Indie group will keep you in the groove
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The author kicks off 2013 with a 1,100-mile cycling journey through the Andes from Lima, Peru, to Ecuador's lofty capital of Quito
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The New Orleans classic has its roots in the roscon de reyes, a Spanish treat for the 12th day of Christmas
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Chimpanzees will sooner kill than share food, but bonobos will sacrifice some of their own goods for the pleasure of interacting with strangers
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