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Thousands Of Drunk Squid Have Beached Themselves On California's Shores This...
Thousands of jumbo squid have beached themselves on central California shores this week, committing mass "suicide."But despite decades of study into the phenomenon in which the squid essentially fling...
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How To Cope With Your Fear And Anxiety In The Aftermath Of Sandy Hook
In the aftermath of a Connecticut mass shooting that may rank among the deadliest in U.S. history, many parents are struggling with a visceral fear for their own children, as well as questions about...
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A Vitamin A Day Won't Keep The Doctor Away
By Clare Collins, University of NewcastleForget an apple a day, vitamin manufacturers would have you believe it’s important to take daily vitamins to boost your health.And a surprising proportion of...
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Here's A Great Primer On How Your Brain Works
If I had been asked 15 years ago to write a short piece about what the different parts of the brain did, it would have been a fairly straightforward task.Not any more.Over the last 15 years, the...
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How The Deadly Ebola Virus Sneaks Past Your Immune System
This post originally appeared on Futurity.org and is available through a Creative Commons license.Ebola virus is the causative agent of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF), a disease with up to 90 percent...
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We Need An Armageddon-Style Plan To Prepare For Asteroid Impacts
In the Hollywood blockbuster "Armageddon", Bruce Willis and his co-stars are given just 18 days to destroy a vast asteroid which threatens to wipe out life on Earth — a desperately short space of time...
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A Bunch Of Awesome Creatures Live Just Off The Coast Of California
So, what exactly is it that I’m doing out here?For one, I’m learning a lot about the animals that live on the seafloor and in seafloor sediment (aka “mud”), but for my own research — I’m sticking to...
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Doctors Are Stunned How Well A Paralyzed Patient Controls This Robotic Arm...
A woman who is paralyzed from the neck down has stunned doctors with her extraordinary skill at using a robotic arm that is controlled by her thoughts alone.The 52-year-old patient, called Jan, lost...
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A Possible Explanation Of Why There Are So Few Female Mass Murderers
The emerging profile of Adam Lanza, the suspected shooter in the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., is depressingly familiar.He has been described as being socially awkward and a loner. He reportedly...
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Climate Change Is Taking Place 'Before Our Eyes'
When in September the Arctic sea ice that freezes and melts each year shrank to its lowest extent ever recorded and then contracted a further 500,000 sq km, the small world of ice scientists was...
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Part Of Antarctica Is Going To Be Named After The Queen
Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced that the southern part of the British Antarctic Territory has been named Queen Elizabeth Land in honour of the Diamond Jubilee, during a Royal visit to the...
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Why Music Is So Fundamental And Engaging
Universal emotions like anger, sadness and happiness are expressed nearly the same in both music and movement across cultures, according to new research.The researchers found that when Dartmouth...
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NASA Is Naming New Moon Crash Site After Sally Ride
The spot on the lunar surface where NASA intentionally crashed its twin gravity-mapping moon probes today (Dec. 17) has been named after the late Sally Ride, America's first woman in space.The two...
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The Large Hadron Collider Is Smashing More Particles Together Than Ever Before
The Large Hadron Collider is working more efficiently, physicists announced today, with more particles than ever before crammed into the particle accelerator's beams.Scientists successfully halved the...
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There's Something Comforting About Facing The End Of The World
December 21, according to much-hyped misreadings of the Mayan calendar, will mark the end of the world.It’s not the first “end is nigh” proclamation — and it’s unlikely to be the last.That’s because,...
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Finally! Scientists Figure Out Why Rudolph's Nose Is Red
Scientists have established why reindeers' noses are so bright.Researchers in the Netherlands and Norway have discovered that reindeer noses have 25 per cent more blood vessels than human noses.The...
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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist: Human Cloning Will Be Possible In 50 Years
Parents who lose children in accidents may be able to clone "copies" to replace them within 50 years, a British scientist who won this year's Nobel prize for medicine has predicted.Sir John Gurdon,...
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Your Christmas Tree Comes With 25,000 Freeloaders
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."Er, not quite.Get a magnifying glass and take a close look at your Christmas tree, says a...
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Rare Whale Identified As Last Living Relative Of An Ancient Group
The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests.The...
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Amazing Video Appears To Show Eagle Snatching A Toddler
Unbelievable amateur footage appears to show the moment a golden eagle attempted to snatch a small child in a Montreal park.The short video, posted to YouTube by MrNuclearCat, is claimed to show a...
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