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The Milky Way is Bigger, Faster, and Heading for Trouble
Have you heard that the Milky Way is bigger than we thought? Fifty percent bigger, according to new measurements
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Hanukkah Food Smackdown! Latkes vs. Hamantashen
Inside a dispute that has engaged some of the greatest minds of our era
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Why Is Minnesota's Recount Doomed?
Charles Seife wrote an op-ed for yesterday's New York Times about the recount in Minnesota, which seems like it ought to be a simple problem but isn't
Welcome to Our Sister Blog, Surprising Science
A new blog keeps in line with our obsessions
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Get to Sleep Before You Lose Your Senses and Your Money!
If you don't get back to sleep, you risk forgetting what you learned, impairing your ability to learn, and preventing yourself from extracting concepts
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Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Great white sharks, endangered frogs and more
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Our Imperiled Oceans: Seeing Is Believing
Photographs and other historical records testify to the former abundance of the sea
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Gaze at the Aurora Borealis
One of the best reasons to head to Canada for vacation is to catch the beautiful Northern Lights
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In the Cliffs of Mesa Verde
Climb into the Colorado cliff dwellings and imagine what life was like for the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who lived there
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