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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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There are more than 14 billion pages on the web, but they are linked by hyperconnected nodes, like Hollywood actors connected through Kevin Bacon
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Do you know which president liked to skinny dip in the Potomac or who had the first pet cat in the White House?
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Drought and over-pumping has led to groundwater losses in the Middle East that equal almost the entire volume of the Dead Sea, a new study shows.
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The government can't get their hands on you when you're floating above Earth
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Across Asia, a plague of hunting has hit pangolins, though it's not too late to save these intriguing creatures from extinction
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At the institution for a year of repairs, the president's gravemarker calls the University of Missouri campus home
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A new project asks citizens to monitor their backyard rinks, helping to track how a warming climate is affecting Canada's skating tradition
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Ten years ago, the spice company identified chipotle as a taste on the rise. They're back at it again with new predictions for 2013
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Innovative architects are experimenting with small unmanned aerial vehicles to prove that drones can do more than cause destruction
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The Armory Show provoked reactions of love and hate; today it is recognized as changing American art forever
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A clever print by designer Jacqueline Schmidt pays homage to 12 different species with one thing in common—they mate for life
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The sugarcane trail takes the author across the Andes, into liquor distilleries and from juice shack to juice shack as he pursues fermented sugarcane wine
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A study shows that wild perch are less fearful, eat faster and are more anti-social when exposed to a common pharmaceutical pollutant
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