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Physicist Richard Feynman called the tests "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon"
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Don’t be sad at the prospect of spending the holiday alone, a popular photoblog will match you up with a family
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As global warming turns up the temperature on the planet, it's going to be tougher to get anything done
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Vinyl is cool again, but will it last?
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The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1960
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By digging burrows in permafrost, Arctic ground squirrels help destabilize the vast stores of carbon in the soil
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The price for perfection is $49 per pound
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Billions of tiny zinc particles explode from the surface of mammalian eggs when a sperm cell touches down
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To better test our computer programs’ intelligence, we should to ask them for stories and drawings
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Ancient Roman concrete has some benefits over modern equivalents
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A new device can transform 150-year-old printed representations of heart beats into actual sound
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The ultimate decision over who controls the North Pole will come down to the United Nations
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Workers must periodically cover the Taj Mahal in clay to remove the pollutants stuck to its marble walls
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Analysis of the frame movements in footage from head-mounted cameras is just as unique as a fingerprint
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Friendly methods get information from suspects faster and more reliably, oh and they don't violate human rights
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The bright glow of friction in Earth's atmosphere
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The death of a captive rhino at the San Diego Zoo brings the species closer to imminent extinction
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An unprecedented engineering project sends water to China’s parched North
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Susceptibility to hangovers is partly due to genetics
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