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The Terrifying Ebola Virus Is More Common Than We Thought
Ebola and Lassa are hemorrhagic fevers, made memorable by the horrific symptoms that can accompany them.First identified about four decades ago, these killer viruses can cause their victims to bleed...
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Climate Change Killed Off The Mayas
Much has been made of the so-called 2012 Mayan apocalypse. But for the real Maya people, the end of the world came slowly and timed with historic droughts.A new, ultra-detailed climate record from a...
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Why Two-Winged Creatures Outlasted Four-Winged Creatures
Why Microraptor became extinctIT IS tempting to think of the process of evolution as one of continuous, stately progress towards better-designed organisms. In fact, it is full of blind alleys--as a...
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New Dinosaur With Massive Eye Socket Discovered
Some 95 million years ago, a two-legged dinosaur even larger than the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex skulked the deltas of North Africa looking for its next meal.The newly categorized and christened...
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Your Allergies Are About To Get Even Worse
Allergy sufferers may want to stock up on meds. According to new research, America's pollen counts may more than double in the next three decades.The culprit is climate change, as warmer temperatures...
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Tasting Sugar Improves Your Concentration
The question: Most experts agree that sugar is rightfully demonized for causing a host of health woes that extend well beyond the obesity epidemic.But sugar, especially taken in moderation, has its...
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This Crazy Looking Sea Sponge Has A Taste For Tiny Animals
You may remember the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) from such discoveries as the Yeti crab, the squid with elbows and my personal favourite, the pigbutt worm, and now they’re back...
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Smacking Children May Put Them At Greater Risk Of Developing Cancer [Study]
Smacking children may put them at greater risk of cancer, heart disease and asthma later in life, a controversial study has suggested.Psychologists asked adults with the diseases if they had been...
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Satellites Resolve Mystery Of Why Antarctic Sea Ice Grows As Arctic Melts
The mystery of the expansion of sea ice around Antarctica, at the same time as global warming is melting swaths of Arctic sea ice, has been solved using data from US military satellites.Two decades of...
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Some Trees Are More Likely To Be Uprooted By Strong Winds
For some, an unwanted reminder of Hurricane Sandy that crashed into the East Coast as megastorm of the century is a big tree uprooted, lying across the yard — If lucky, missing the house.From North...
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France's 'Nutella Amendment' Has Sparked A Mini Revolution
It is the sweet and sickly staple of many a French schoolchild's breakfast: la tartine de Nutella, a dollop of nutty chocolate and hazlenut spread on a slice of baguette.An estimated 235,000 tonnes of...
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Climate Change Is Probably Going To Be Worse Than Any Of Us Expected
Climate change is likely to be more severe than some models have implied, according to a new study which ratchets up the possible temperature rises and subsequent climatic impacts.The analysis by the...
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Elephant-Human Clashes Are Sometimes Caused By Pachyderm Drunkenness
"Marauding pack of booze-addled elephants wreak havoc on Indian village." It's a story, or at least a headline, that's surprisingly common.A few representative samples from the news reports on the...
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We Need To Improve How Cities Deal With Extreme Weather
Climate scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig has been studying the impacts of global warming on New York City since the 1990s, and was part of a group that analyzed the unique risks faced by the Big Apple way...
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Male Alcoholics Have Trouble Understanding The Emotions Of Other People
Male alcoholics appear to have a great deal of difficulty recognizing emotions in verbal language, a small European study suggests. The researchers also found that the men have a weakened ability to...
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Posting Too Much On Facebook Is A Sign Of Emotional Instability
People who aren’t emotionally stable post more frequently in order to regulate their emotions and receive social support:Low emotionally stable individuals experience emotions more intensely and have...
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How Your Dreams Can Help You Learn And Remember Things
The realm of sleep and dreams has long been associated with strangeness: omens or symbols, unconscious impulses and fears.But this sometimes disturbing world of inner turmoil, fears and desires is...
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The Psychology Of Why Powerful Men Like Petraeus Cheat
An admitted affair has crumbled the career of CIA Director David Petraeus, prompting the evergreen question: Why do people with so much to lose risk it all for sex?In the last few years alone, several...
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Why Itching Is Contagious
Watching another person scratch an itch can cause you to do the same, and scientists have figured out the basis of this peculiar "itch contagion." It's all in your brain.Merely seeing someone else...
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Global Warming Is Messing With Our Satellites' Orbits
Rising carbon dioxide levels at the edge of space are apparently reducing the pull that Earth's atmosphere has on satellites and space junk, researchers say.The findings suggest that man-made increases...
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