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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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This Sunday, at the National Museum of American History, three theatrical performers sang a version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
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The long-forgotten art form receives a long overdue renaissance in an exhibit featuring centuries-old woven tapestries
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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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Inside a dispute that has engaged some of the greatest minds of our era
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In a first-hand account of participating in an alternative reality game, one player gets caught up in the challenge
Syncopated rhythms and melodic drums characterize Indonesdian "gamelan" music
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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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Surprising, inspiring and outstanding titles for youngsters and the grownups that read to them
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A new exhibition
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