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Never trust a robot co-worker
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In a new book, 75 artists illustrate questions scientists haven't fully answered yet
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Was the early bird Archaeopteryx more of a glider than a flier?
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Conservationists and divers alike are on edge over a mysterious disease sweeping through coral reefs in Kauai
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Scientists argue that grasping hands and feet, good vision and other primate adaptations emerged because the mammals plucked fruits from the ends of tree branches
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Artist Everett Raymond Kinstler's portrait of the legendary performer Christopher Plummer joins the collection as Kinstler is honored in New York City
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The newly discovered quasar spews an amount of energy equivalent to more than two million suns
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The Gallery marks the occasion with an "explosion event," lectures, performances and more
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This remote-controlled car turns into a walking, missile-shooting robot
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From a frozen Antarctic lake, researchers pulled samples teeming with bacteria
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Without benefit of medical training, Madame Restell spent 40 years as a "female physician"
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Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.
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Principles from the weather models that predicted Sandy a week ahead of time might be used to warn about the flu before it arrives
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A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent?
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Modest ambient noise - like that found in a coffee shop or cafe - triggers the part of our brain responsible for abstract and creative thinking
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Scientists have warned about ocean acidification for years, but now it's actually happening
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Gigantspinosaurus had enormous shoulder spikes, but what were these ornaments used for?
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A hominid that lived in Europe more than a million years ago might have given rise to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, some anthropologists say
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This week, review the musical genius of Capitol Records co-founder, examine identity in Middle Eastern art and start your stitching
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