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A New Discovery: Skorpiovenator, the Scorpion Hunter

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Close Encounters of the Ethiopian Kind

Photograph of Alec Soth taken in his studio

At the Portrait Gallery, Alec Soth Likes Looking at Women

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Leap Second Added to Your Calendar

The official Keepers of Time will add a leap second to the world’s master clocks (in the U.S. Naval Observatory) on December 31 at 23:59:59 UTC

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Calling All Trophy Holders: Artist Wants Yours

David B. Gamble house, Pasadena, 1907-09.

The Splendor of Greene and Greene

A new exhibition celebrates the work of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, masters of American Arts and Crafts architecture

Tyrannosaurus rex

Is It Curtains for Jurassic Park IV?

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What Did You Do in College? These Students Discovered a Planet

That’s right. These three undergraduates from Leiden University in the Netherlands discovered a planet, and not just any old planet

A carpet of moss.

Ancient, Doomed “Iceman” Had Been Eating Mosses

Scientists found six species of moss in the stomach of the famous five thousand-year-old glacier mummy

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Smithsonian Events Week of December 8-14

The Madonna’s dress was of the costumes most severally damaged by the poor lighting in the barn, which faded the color of her gown from pink to white. The restorer’s solution was not to discard the original dress, but instead to reverse it, so that the gown’s back is now its front.

A Creche Reborn

In rural Connecticut, a 300-year-old nativity scene is brought back to life by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Before Email, There Was V-mail

A history of the method used to transmit letters during World War II

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R.I.P., H.M., Memory’s Most Famous Initials

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Why Is Minnesota’s Recount Doomed?

Charles Seife wrote an op-ed for yesterday’s New York Times about the recount in Minnesota, which seems like it ought to be a simple problem but isn’t

Happy Repeal Day!

Cheers! Today marks the 75th anniversary of the US government changing its mind about Prohibition

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The International Dinosaur Illustration Contest

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Art Market at National Museum of the American Indian

Picture of the Week—Diatoms or Modern Art?

Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, England won the 2008 Nikon Small world Photomicrography Competition earlier this year with the image below

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Picture of the Week—Diatoms or Modern Art?

Nutritional supplements.

Vitamins: Friend or Foe?

The truth to vitamin supplements

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