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New Stain-Proof Material Can Repel Virtually Any Liquid

Military leaders and laundry-plagued mothers both have reason to rejoice over an improvement in the development of liquid-repelling surfaces. For the first time, lab researchers have created a...

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Beijing Smog Could Be Making Its Way Over To California

No, I’m not talking about myself, although I am a Californian and I am suffering through the Biblically nasty Beijing Airpocalypse. Rather, I’m talking about actual residents of the U.S. West Coast,...

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Temperature Hits All-Time Record In Sydney

Temperatures in Sydney on Friday hit their highest levels since records began 150 years ago, after an Australian government agency warned of more frequent and intense heatwaves in the future.While a...

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Fires From North Dakota's Oil Fields Are Visible From Space

There’s a new light in the night sky – and it’s North Dakota.Over the past 2 years, North Dakota has doubled its oil production to become the #2 producing state in the nation.  And with this oil has...

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You Can Eat That Burger As Long As you Exercise After

A high-fat meal may not be quite as bad for your body if you exercise shortly afterward, a small study from Japan suggests.The results show that walking and doing light resistance training one hour...

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Scientists Are Taking An Academic Eye To Pop Music, And Here's Why

Since the rise of recordings and radio in the early twentieth century, music has been a constant and often integral part of American culture.Any comprehensive account of the history of the last one...

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Computer Scientists Are Working To Give Stephen Hawking Back His Voice

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has long relied on technology to help him connect with the outside world despite the degenerative motor neuron disease he has battled for the past 50 years.Whereas...

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Scientists Just Found The Missing Mid-Sized Black Holes

Australian researchers have redefined the relationship between galaxies and their black holes, showing that a widely-accepted method for calculating the mass of smaller black holes was wrong.The...

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Girls Don't Actually Go Wild On Spring Break

This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license.The popular perception that college students are reaching new levels of self-indulgence...

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You Might Be Able To Beat That Peanut Allergy

Most people with peanut allergies steer clear of the legume, but a new study from the National Institute of Health is suggesting that patients could some day do just the opposite.NIH’s National...

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There's More To Life Than Being Happy

In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when...

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Health-Conscious Westerners Devour Quinoa, While Poor Bolivians Can No Longer...

Not long ago, quinoa was just an obscure Peruvian grain you could only buy in wholefood shops. We struggled to pronounce it (it's keen-wa, not qui-no-a), yet it was feted by food lovers as a novel...

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Water Could Be The World's Next Biggest Market

In Uganda, a beer brewer is paying communities to protect wetlands in a bid to secure a steady supply of water for its businesses. In neighbouring Kenya, flower companies, ranchers and hotels are...

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The Story Of A Farmer Who Turned His Back On Supermarket Big Shots To Stay...

Hollywood’s latest starlet is gazing enigmatically into the camera lens with her huge melting brown eyes, framed with lashes long enough to catch snowflakes. She radiates an air of serenity amid the...

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10 Fascinating Facts About Earth

1. Along with orbiting around the Sun at 66,600 mph, the Earth is also rotating at its axis at about 1,070 miles per hour. So you are simultaneously hurtling around the Sun at 66,600 mph while sitting...

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Why America Performs Poorly On Nearly Every Measure Of Health

IT IS hardly news that America spends more on health care than any other country. Nor is it news that this money fails to make Americans healthy. But a new report from America’s Institute of Medicine...

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Why So Many People Get The Flu In Winter

The 2012-2013 flu season is shaping up to be a doozy.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported that during the first week of 2013, 7.3 percent of all deaths reported through their...

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A Breakdown Of What Exactly Is In Beijing's Filthy Air

China's landlocked capital of 20 million people has experienced record-breaking pollution over the last few days. The South China Morning Post reported that visits to Beijing Children's Hospital hit a...

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5 Famous Scientists Who Started Their Work As Teens

Not all of history’s most significant scientists were college graduates when they began their works. In fact, history is full of scientists who have shaped the world due to their work as teenagers.If...

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Navy Ship May Have Run Aground Because Of A Faulty Map

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An inaccurate map that mislocated a marine sanctuary may have caused a U.S. Navy minesweeper to run aground on a coral reef in the Philippines this week, the Navy said...

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