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A Victorian-era naturalist thought he'd found a new kind of dinosaur, and he threw a fit when other naturalists disagreed
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The bite of a Goliath bird-eater is hardly worse than a bee sting---but it is among the nastiest things that could skitter across your face in the Amazon
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What are those burning questions about the cosmos that still baffle astronomers today?
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Humans' big, fast-growing brains and unique style of walking explain why it takes so long for infant skulls to develop
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We now create an enormous amount of digital data every day on smart phones, social networks and sensors. So how do you make sense of all of it?
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Even though dinosaurs never lived in the sea, a few unfortunate specimens created temporary reefs in ancient oceans
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Amerigo Vespucci wasn't entirely heroic—just ask Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Artifacts from the Central Asian nation, including saddles ornamented with gold foil and cinnabar, are on display for the first time in the United States
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The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”
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And why some critics can't stand them
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On Star Wars day, we take a look at the science behind the series' most popular spacecraft and the force fields it flies through
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The S. Dillon Ripley Center hosts an exhibit of more than 300 of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' patents since 1980.
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At a spooky abandoned theme park, once-regal dinosaurs are suffering a second extinction
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In a new book, anthropologist Christopher Boehm traces the steps our species went through to attain a conscience
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Dating back to the 18th century, the dish has jumped from the Mexican silver mines to fast food staple
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Could the design of a Brita filter help us with controlling how much water we waste?
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The Crocodile Trophy mountain biking race is off-road, meaning gravel, rocks, ruts, puddles, dust and lots of crashing
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