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Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Turned on by Hormones - 2 days ago
The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: “Any way it wants.”...
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Vet School 2.0: Stick Your Hand Up a Virtual Cow Butt - 2 days ago
There’s nothing tidy about sticking your arm deep into a cow’s backside, getting up to...
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Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning - 2 days ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the...
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Close Encounter with Saturn Moon’s Fantastic Plumage - 2 days ago
Earlier this week, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its deepest dive ever through the center of...
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Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space - 2 days ago
<< previous image | next image >> Islands are some of the...
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Gene Therapy Halts Fatal Brain Disease - 3 days ago
Scientists have used gene therapy to halt the progression of adrenoleukodystrophy, a fatal...
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Hubble’s New Camera Delivers Another Stunner - 3 days ago
The Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of...
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This Is Your Brain, on Sofa - 4 days ago
It’s either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of...
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Gadgets and Ideas to Revolutionize Healthcare - 4 days ago
The TEDMED conference gave 400 people a glimpse at the future of healthcare last week, bringing...
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Early Life Hedged Its Bets to Survive - 4 days ago
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PayPal Suspends Researcher's Account for Distributing Hacking Tools - 1 month ago
A security researcher who disclosed a serious vulnerability in online certificates has been blocked...
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Inside the Nobel Prize: How a CCD Works - 1 month ago
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded, with the inventors of the CCD getting...
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Kindle Goes International — With a Little Help From AT&T - 1 month ago
The Kindle goes global on October 19, when Amazon begins shipping a new version of the e-reader that...
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Oct. 7, 1806: Do You Copy? Carbon Paper Patented - 1 month ago
It started out as a way for the blind to write. It went on to serve for a century as a fundamental...
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Oct. 6, 1887: An Architect for the Machine Age - 1 month ago
Le Corbusier is born, though under a different name. He will change the way people think about...
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7 Glow-in-the-Dark Mushroom Species Discovered - 1 month ago
Seven new species of luminescent mushrooms have been discovered, bringing the total number of known...
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Nobel Winners Isolate Protein Behind Immortality, Cancer - 1 month ago
The discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that can cause cells to live indefinitely, was honored with...
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Roman Coin Hoards Show More War Means Fewer Babies - 1 month ago
Wars fought during the Roman Empire caused the Italian population to decline, according to a new...
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Termite Altruism Might Have Roots in War - 1 month ago
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What's Inside a Cup of Coffee? - 1 month ago
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Oct. 5, 1895: Cyclings 'Race of Truth' - 1 month ago
The first individual bicycle time trials took place 114 years ago north of London. How time flies...
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Religious Experience Linked to Brain's Social Regions - 1 month ago
Whether or not God exists, believing in one could have provided an evolutionary boost for the human...
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Oct. 2, 1996: FOIA Law Ushers in Digital Democracy - 1 month ago
Thirteen years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act...
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Bird Cam Captures Albatross, Killer Whale Rendezvous - 1 month ago
Tiny digital cameras attached to four Antarctic albatrosses uncover an unusual pattern of bird...
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Infrared Video: 500,000 Bats Emerge From Cave - 1 month ago
Mesmerizing infrared video of bat colonies allow scientists to pin down exactly how many bats are...
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Teen's DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope - 1 month ago
In a down-and-out village in Malawi, a teenager builds a windmill from an old textbook to power...
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Earth's Hum Might Help Map Mars - 1 month ago
The Earth hums at a frequency of 10 millihertz — and it turns out that noise can be used to map its...
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Throwaway GPS Data Reveals Snow Depth - 1 month ago
A data artifact that GPS researchers had long tried to suppress turns out to provide critical...
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Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them - 1 month ago
See some of the most beautiful, strange, and rare clouds with explanations from scientists about how...
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Four-Winged Fossil Bridges Bird-Dinosaur Gap - 1 month ago
A fossil with four wings and evidence of a slew of feathers pushes the date of the earliest known...
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9 Environmental Boundaries We Don't Want to Cross - 1 month ago
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Dust Storm Slams Sydney: "It Was Like Waking Up on Mars" - 1 month ago
An extreme dust storm blanketed Sydney Wednesday morning, turning the city a bright orange. Our...
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