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A number of irrelevant factors—from a polling place's location to a home sports team's winning percentage—have been found to sway voters
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Voting experts David Becker and Thad Hall discuss the technologies that could forever change the way we register and cast our votes
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A pair of spade-toothed whales washed ashore on a beach, the first time the complete body of a member of this species has ever been seen
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A hidden ankylosaur species changes how paleontologists understand the evolution of North America's Late Cretaceous dinosaurs
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Brain scans suggest Democrats and Republicans actually are different biologically. Welcome to the world of political neuroscience.
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Huge variability in Australopithecus afarensis height may have made it difficult for group members to walk together at the same speed
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A swarm of giant beetles, lovingly sculpted by Washington D.C.-based artist Joan Danziger, descends on the American University Museum
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A bizarre skull fragment hints at a new species of giant predatory dinosaur from Morocco
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A new study shows that justifying paywalls as fair makes readers much more likely to pay for online content
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Is the crippling of New York City enough to motivate other cities to protect themselves against extreme weather?
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Over 48,000 photos were entered in the Veolia Environnement contest; these 10 were among the most stunning
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Koshik, an Asian elephant at a South Korean zoo, learned to uncannily mimic five Korean words by stuffing his trunk in his mouth
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Dinosaurs undoubtedly slipped and fell. But did they leave any evidence of their mishaps in the fossil record?
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When completed in 2013, this series of 170,000 mirrors will power 140,000 California homes
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Two photographers ventured deep into the forests of central Africa to capture touching photos of a 33-year-old wild silverback and his clan
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A CDC team races to Uganda just days after an outbreak of the killer virus to try to pinpoint exactly how it is transmitted to humans
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New imaging techniques are mapping the locations of our aesthetic response
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For men and women, looking good can mean extra cash in your bank account
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Unprecedented images from space capture the Sun’s true beauty
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The Geometrization Theorem may not sound the sexiest, but it reveals geometry’s innate splendor
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