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Research shows you can learn a few things about a person by watching where they're looking.
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How do you catch a penguin supper when you're trapped in Antarctic ice? Play music
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Dr. Who sported some of the worst dinosaurs on television. This video explains why
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At the Portrait Gallery, Historian Amy Henderson Awaits the Presentation of a New Portrait of Chef Alice Waters
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Beauty, mystery and deceit—the Smithsonian's collection of nearly 8,000 live orchids has it all
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Off the coast of North Carolina lie dozens of shipwrecks, remainders of a forgotten theater of World War II
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The first Best Picture Oscar winner emerges to help Paramount celebrate its centennial
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Here are young entrepreneurs whose innovative thinking has them poised for big things this year
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History often plays linguistic tricks on us, especially when it comes to rapidly changing technologies
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"Everything's better with bacon" is the ruling philosophy of the decade. But are we taking it too far?
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Charles J. Guiteau said he wanted to kill President James A. Garfield "in an American manner."
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American physicist Richard Feynman gives up the secret of quantum mechanics
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Andrew was sullen, silent and soaked to the skin after spending eight hours in the rain standing in a river waving a stick
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Thanks to one 1888 paper, paleontologists still divide dinosaurs between the bird-hips and lizard-hips
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What are the must-read books written by and about the famed British author?
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In honor of MLK day, the president of the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation speaks about seeing the project to fruition
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Some researchers insist that birds are not dinosaurs, but do they have any evidence?
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A new study shows that our perceptions of wealth don't always match up with reality
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A photographer uses a scanning electron microscope to zoom in on everyday foods—and makes art
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