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When Cities Run Themselves
We're moving toward an "internet of things," where machines talk to machines and there's little need for human involvement. A lot of experts think it's the key to ensuring that cities of the future don't fall apart
May 21, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Given its location and climate, Greece should be filled with hominid bones and stone tools
May 21, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
There was a full artistic reconstruction in the 2010 paper that described the dinosaur, but it's another thing altogether to see the dinosaur's reconstructed skeleton
May 21, 2012
| By Brian Switek
One hundred years ago, a German scientist was ridiculed for advancing the shocking idea that the continents were adrift
June 2012
| By Richard Conniff
Cereal companies, maligned for overprocessing, are now using the same techniques to put some nature back in the bowl
June 2012
| By Corby Kummer
For the first time in 18 years, a solar eclipse will be visible in the continental United States
May 18, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
The key take-home lesson: Never anger anyone with a thagomizer
May 18, 2012
| By Brian Switek
New technology is allowing the paralyzed to walk and the blind to see. And it's becoming a smaller leap from repairing bodies to enhancing them
May 17, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
New York's newest museum is anything but formulaic
June 2012
| By Mark Strauss
A new study indicates that a surprisingly high number of us are prone to sleepwalking. Should you wake a sleepwalker?
May 17, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
An isolated bone shows that Cretaceous Australia had an even richer mix of predatory dinosaurs
May 17, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The discovery of 37,000-year-old cave art showing female genitalia adds to the list of contenders
May 16, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
Dinosaurs probably wouldn't have been very good at mini-golf—imagine a Carnotaurus with a putter—but they make for excellent fairway decor
May 16, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Everyone knows the "Golden Girls" actress for her long television career, but she is just as proud of her work with zoos
May 15, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
How a brainless, single-celled organism created a startlingly efficient route map for U.S. highways
May 15, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Lazy journalists and unscrupulous documentary creators have demonstrated that they just can't play nice with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and kin
May 15, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Scientists at a British laboratory are racing to preserve thousands of the world’s threatened plants, one seed at a time
June 2012
| By Rob Sharp
The Millennium Seed Bank has set out to collect 25 percent of the world's plant species by 2020—before it is too late
May 14, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
Some males take decades to fully mature; this arrested development can improve their odds of mating success
May 14, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
It wouldn't seem to be. But social TV, where people interact with their friends on a second screen while they're watching a show, may be boosting ratings
May 14, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
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