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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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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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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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A damaged skull throws support to the idea that some dome-headed dinosaurs butted heads
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Pros and cons of "perforated plastic with photographic emulsion"
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The moon's closest approach to earth will coincide with a perfectly full moon
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The white stuff can fall at any time and almost anywhere, from the streets of Rome to the subtropical Canary Islands
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An important piece of science recently popped up in Times Square, in the form of a 19,000-square-foot interactive map by a Dutch information designer
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Nanotechnology is taking health care to the molecular level and changing it in profound ways. But is it all good?
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What can snack food marketing tell us about political campaigns?
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Listen to the latest stylings of Shanthi, the Dylan of elephants
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Greater spatial intelligence may have given modern humans an edge over Neanderthals, a new study proposes
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After a long lull, a stampede of dinosaur films is headed for theaters
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