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From deep-sea squid habits to vanishing coral reefs, here are the ocean stories we couldn’t stop talking about this year.
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Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has found a way to create clouds in gallery spaces. In the seconds before they dissipate, he captures beautiful photographs
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Some reindeer really do have red noses, a result of densely packed blood vessels near the skin's surface
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They haven't received much attention yet, but here are some of the more innovative--and useful--ideas that have popped up this year.
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The idyllic scenes of the dreamy holiday tune were painted by a Russian Jewish immigrant named Israel Baline, better known as Irving Berlin
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Andre Nemesio and his team just named a brand new orchid bee Euglossa bazinga, after the catch phrase used by Sheldon Cooper
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Few beers may so strongly evoke the image of dark winters and frozen European landscapes as Imperial Stout—and a bottle fits nicely in a Christmas stocking
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This year's hominid finds illuminate the great diversity and adaptability of our ancient relatives
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Learn about the 2009 official apology to Native Americans, talk with an expert at Air and Space and hear some "post-cool" takes on seasonal classics
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The pen, inkwell and one copy of the document that freed the slaves are photographed together for the first time
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A new report indicates that we have roughly 8 years to cut fossil fuel use without risking catastrophic levels of warming
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This weekend, learn about the health history behind tattoos, watch one man's journey to mark the Dakota War and take in the holidazzle at the Zoo
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The oceans show holiday spirit with a worm on coral reefs that resembles a fluffy fir tree adorned with colored ornaments.
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What were you doing on the web back in the age of Netscape and Gopher?
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Thanks to the successful “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!” (Kentucky for Christmas!) marketing campaign in 1974, Japan can't get enough KFC on Christmas Day
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Turks and Caicos had one of the world's first, and largest, salt industries
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From the Higgs Boson to the Curiosity rover, 2012 was a major year for science
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From feathers to black market fossil controversies, 2012 was a big year for dinosaurs
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At the 150th and 50th anniversary of two historic moments, the African American History and Culture Museum and American History Museum team up
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What's behind the holiday tradition of hanging hosiery on the fireplace?
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