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Today's story: Most homes in cold-weather places have furnaces or boilers to provide heat indoors. T

Today's story: The Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait in the world, but much is not known about i

Today's story: Dengue fever is a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes. Though it's not deadly in th

Today's story: Impressionism, the art movement that celebrates bright colors, thick brushstrokes, an

Today's story: "Behavioral science" is the field of studying how humans behave in the real world. To

Today's story: Daniel Kahneman was a trained psychologist who became the ""grandfather of behavioral

Today's story: A corridor of magma below the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland burst to the surface thr

Today's story: Quebec, Canada's only French-speaking province, has long protected its language. But

Today's story: Canada is a bilingual country, offering government services in both English and Frenc

Today's story: Shohei Ohtani is a superstar baseball player in Los Angeles. Since his arrival in the

Today's Story: How do animals behave during a total solar eclipse? It's a difficult question to answ

Today's story: Swimming has been prohibited in the River Seine for over 100 years, and for good reas

" Chef José Andrés is famous for his high-end restaurants. He's also the founder of World Central Ki

" Fifty years ago this month, ""Carrie,"" Stephen King's first novel, was released. It was the first

" A massive bridge over a river in Baltimore, Maryland, fell into the water last month, after a cont

" Britain and the United States are the two biggest exporters of television. But the third-biggest m

" Americans buy and sell millions of homes per year, and about 90 percent of transactions use a real

" First there was powder. Then there was liquid laundry detergent. And then there were laundry ""pod

" The Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez worked on a slim novel called ""Until August

" Twenty years ago, a new computer program let consumers download a feed of audio clips onto their i