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If it is clear out tonight, grab your binoculars or a telescope and look up at the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn
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The oldest fossil spider was thought to be Attercopus fimbriunguis, which lived around 386 million years ago
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Missing: 90 yellow rubber duckies dropped into a moulin (a tubular hole) in a melting Greenland glacier approximately three months ago
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We have gotten conflicting information on clean coal—that mythic technology that would let us burn all the coal we want without any carbon emissions
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How far we have come from 1609, when Galileo Galilei first aimed his telescope towards the little twinkly dots in the sky and saw stars and planets
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The similarities between the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803 to 1806 and a manned mission to Mars are not immediately obvious
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Smithsonian’s blogging chief Laura Helmuth has a question for the readers of this blog, inspired by Charles Seife’s latest book
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How often do you get drunk? Intoxicated? Inebriated? Tanked? Hammered? Wasted? Plastered? Sloshed? Tipsy? Buzzed?
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Earlier this year, in "On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon," Abigail Tucker immersed herself and us in the lives of chinook salmon
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These whispering bats never really whispered. Their echolocations were thought to be about 70 decibels, about the level of sound coming from speaking
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