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What's behind the holiday tradition of hanging hosiery on the fireplace?
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Canadian researchers have created a computer model that performs tasks like a human brain. It also sometimes forgets things
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Was our future to be delightful or depraved? Sort of depends on your perspective
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From the Horten Ho 229 to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, stealth technology has changed a lot
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A new study shows that female mice who smell pheromones in potential mates' urine will constantly return to the site of exposure even weeks later
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Original designs from artists over the years to celebrate the holidays
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Born two hours apart starting at midnight, Dec. 13, the cubs and mother, Billie Jean are all doing fine
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Aspiring makers are now finding ways to manufacture their designs in American factories
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Recently unveiled dinosaur sculptures are frustrating eyesores to some and tourist attractions to others
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In 1868, Darwin set out to quantify human emotion in a series of novel experiments, which researchers are recreating today
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Thanks to Twitter, even people with no direct contact Great Britain's subjects can bask in its citizen's propensity for weather-related complaint
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Learn about the contemporary artist's use of historic objects, why the world didn't end and just what's so special about Stradivari in concert
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Previously traced to ancient Egypt, prehistoric pottery indicates that cheese was invented thousands of years earlier
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Books and DVDs make up our expert's gift guide of more ideas for this holiday season
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Seen from a mathematical perspective, today's date--12/12/12--is more than a coveted wedding anniversary
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The search for humans' most ancient ancestors began in South Africa, where some of paleoanthropology's most iconic fossils have been found
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Were enigmatic, 230-million-year-old burrows created by dinosaurs?
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In a new book, Andrew Zuckerman embraces minimalism, capturing 150 colorful blooms on white backdrops
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It wasn't until after the war that the U.S. started to really use the dollar
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Climate change is delivering serious wounds to the winter sport all over the globe
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