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Artists are borrowing from biology to create dazzling "biodesigns" that challenge our aesthetics—and our place in nature
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To combat the housing crisis in major American cities, architects are designing smaller, more efficient apartments that will change the way urbanites live
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See evidence of how early humans adapted, celebrate Latin America's coolest flowers and learn about Harlem the Renaissance's most important artists
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Cornell scientists used computerized scanning, 3D printers and cartilage from cows to create living prosthetic ears
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Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills—and an advocate for women's rights. On a U.S. tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady
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A new study indicates that roughly half become habituated to the smell of DEET over time, reducing its effectiveness as a repellent
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Making healthy foods like tomatoes more palatable may increase our desire to eat these foods while decreasing our gravitation towards sugary snacks
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Advertisers love to use futurism as a way to position their products as forward-thinking
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Macrophotographer Thomas Shahan takes portraits of spiders and insects in the hopes of turning your revulsion of the creatures into reverence
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Life in this legendary town in Ecuador's Valley of Longevity may be too good—and too long—to be true
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Scientists use computer simulations to test how geographic features help create intense snowstorms that blanket cities near lake shores with snow
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Everything from parrots to gossipy novels influenced art in Japan between 1603 to 1868
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And you think you're having a bad work week, just think about the robots
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More and more, amateurs are contributing to the discovery of new species, especially of insects - but can they keep ahead of the extinction curve?
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This week, watch films by American Indian youths, see Academy Award-winner "The Artist" and snap your fingers to some world-class jazz
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Finally, women could breathe deeply when the waist-nipping corset went out of style
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The more salt we eat, the more we crave. This new approach to less-salty cooking might help you step off the treadmill
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Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children?
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Last week's close encounters with space rocks have raised concerns about how we deal with dangerous asteroids. Here's how we would try to knock them off course.
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A video captures images of thousands of spiders raining down on a Brazilian town, but it turns out this event is perfectly normal
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