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Most Mass Murderers Aren't Actually Mentally Ill
Adam Lanza, killer of 20 children and seven adults, including his mother, is a mass murderer – he murdered a large number of people in a short time in one place. He then committed suicide in a...
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The Meteor That Streaked Over California In April Had The Energy Of Four...
Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens must move quickly to trap evidence of a fresh meteorite fall.In 2008, a small asteroid roughly three meters across struck Earth’s atmosphere over northern Sudan,...
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Men With More Sisters Are More Likely To Have Fertility Issues
This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license.Men with more brothers than sisters may have faster swimming sperm and are more likely...
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A Mysterious Animal Is Attacking Livestock In Kentucky
An unknown animal is attacking, but not eating, livestock in Kentucky, leaving many of the victims with gnawed or detached ears.According to WAVE News, the attacks have been ongoing for several weeks...
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NASA's New Spacesuit Looks Awfully Familiar
It might make the astronaut wearing it look like a real-life Buzz Lightyear, but a new prototype spacesuit that NASA just finished testing represents the first major overhaul in spacesuit technology...
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Just Passed A Key Flight Test
The Virgin Galactic suborbital SpaceShipTwo has completed a key flight test at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California — an on-the-fly appraisal that serves as an important precursor to upcoming...
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The International Space Station Just Got Three New Visitors
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying the three newest residents of the International Space Station is set to dock with the high-flying laboratory on Friday morning (Dec. 21).Set to arrive at the space...
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The World Is Totally Unprepared For Extreme Events Like Sandy
The storm surge Hurricane Irene brought to New York’s coastal community of Breezy Point in 2011 left Gretchen Ferenz Fox's home untouched.But a little over a year later, Sandy was different.This storm...
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There Were Never A Ton Of Tiny Dinosaurs, Just A Whole Bunch Of Huge Ones
Dinosaurs as a group may have been skewed more toward giant species than modern-day creatures are, researchers say.The findings, based on comparisons of size ranges among extinct and current species,...
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Why Are People Already Deciding Adam Lanza Wasn't Responsible For His Actions?
As a medical historian whose research focuses on a time and place very alien to our own, I rarely comment on current events.However, in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in...
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There Are Better Determinants Of Intelligence Than IQ
Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, has been used to sort people, whether job candidates or schoolchildren, for decades. Now, a century after psychologists first came up with the idea of “general...
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Here's How Badly The 'Home Alone' Burglars Should Have Been Injured
Since its debut in 1990,"Home Alone" has become as much a part of the Christmas cinematic ritual as "It's a Wonderful Life."But unlike that uplifting tale about the good of mankind, "Home Alone" tells...
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'Alien-Like' Skulls Were Just Excavated In Mexico
Human skulls deliberately warped into strange, alien-like shapes have been unearthed in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico, researchers say.The practice of deforming skulls of children as they grew...
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The Search Is On For Water In Our Solar System And Beyond
This article was originally published on The Conversation and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license. Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a long-term, stable supply...
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Magicians need to resort to trick props to pull a rabbit out of a hat.But we pulled DNA out of a banana with nothing more than a few household ingredients during a Scientific American Google Hangout on...
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15 Of The World's Strangest Natural Phenomena
Sarah Park of Matador Network brings us some of the most dangerous, beautiful, and downright weird wonders of the natural world.See the bizarre natural phenomena >More From Matador Network:14...
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After 2,000 Years, Scientists Learn How One Chinese Herbal Medicine Works
Scientists in the United States on Sunday offered a molecular-level explanation for how a Chinese herbal medicine used for more than 2,000 years tackles fever and eases malaria.The herb is an extract...
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Sad The World Didn't End? You Aren't Alone
You might expect the world not ending to be a cause for celebration. But for believers in doomsdays like yesterday's supposed Mayan apocalypse, the continued existence of the planet can be quite...
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The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Warming Twice As Fast Than Expected
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose melt may be responsible for 10 percent of the sea-level rise caused by climate change, is warming twice as quickly as previously thought, a study said Sunday.A...
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Renewable Energy Will Start To Be Seen As 'Normal' In 2013
Last year saw a shift from a reliance on oil and coal to an exploration of untapped natural gas resources and renewable energy. Few will bet against this topsy-turvy, transitional energy state...
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