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May 24, 2012 - 2:51pm(Raleigh)—The Nature Art Gallery at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is celebrating summer with a featured exhibit of new pottery by Freechild Studio beginning Friday, June 1. Color on Clay II is Freechild’s second show at the Nature Art Gallery. John Garland and Mary Paul, owners of the Knightdale pottery studio, will be at the Gallery for an opening reception and meet and greet on June 1 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The show continues through Sunday, July 1.
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May 17, 2012 - 1:00pm
Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen — the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia.
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May 16, 2012 - 12:55pm
Science Cafe: Cancer Drugs from Nature with Dr. Manusukh Wani, co-discoverer of not one but two life-saving anti-cancer drugs derived from plants.
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May 14, 2012 - 5:27pm
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May 2, 2012 - 3:17pm
Dateline: December 17. Year: 2116. Spaceship: Bravo Zulu 88. Destination: Galaxy M12. Assignment: Outer Space. Follow Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson as he journeys into the vast reaches of deep space to cover a routine check of infra radiation flux, whatever that is.
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April 27, 2012 - 11:55am
Imagine spending more than 200 days traveling
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April 4, 2012 - 4:21pmNRC 24-hour Grand Opening
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March 23, 2012 - 3:18pm
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March 16, 2012 - 12:48pm
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