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EurasiaNet reports on archaeologist Klaus Schmidt’s excavation of Gobekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old city that could rewrite human history:

“Everybody used to think only

TechRadar.com brightens our day with the story of a Dutch designer who has created illuminated wallpaper.

Delving deeper, Samson revealed that the wallpaper is constructed by “sandwiching”

In 1970, Life wanted us to know that home computers can be useful:

Those pioneer families who have one, like the Theodore Rodmans of Ardmore, Pa., have discovered their obedient machine

BBC reports on a Russia’s new generation of space monkeys being trained for Mars:

“People and monkeys have approximately identical sensitivity to small and large radiation

New York Times gives us a new (well, new-ish) perspective on cellular phones – as a revolutionary technology for eliminating global poverty.. or for making killer profits with “human-centered… Read the rest “Cellphone Planet.”

New Scientist rocks like a crustacean with a new report on crab courtship dances:

In the dense submarine thickets of seagrass that blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) call home, males and

New York Times profiles a bizarre ailment that has me wondering how one could contract it halfway. It’s a syndrome that causes uncontrolled creativity:

In 1994, Dr. Adams became

Scientific American introduces us to a whole new family of (rather cute) flat-faced fish:

First photographed in January off Ambon Island, Indonesia, the critter has crooked, leglike

New Scientist says old dudes like Charles Darwin really should be shacked up with younger women like Scarlett Johansen because of science. Humans, they say, are primed for May/December… Read the rest “As Matthew McConaughey said in Dazed and Confused….”

Wired opens wide and spits out a story on a dental breakthrough. If you happen to have lost any of your teeth (ahem), you don’t have to get crowns or dentures any more. Now, you can grow… Read the rest “Grow Your Own Teeth.”

Yep, he might be an 11-year-old kid, but at least he was paying attention in class:

Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum’s Tower of Time, a display