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Why The Great Lakes Are Shrinking

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this week that two of America's Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, are at their lowest water levels since recording began in 1918. The lakes were 29...

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This Year's Flu Season Is Winding Down

Flu season is still upon us, but it appears to be winding down.As of Feb. 2, the percentage of people visiting the doctor for flu-like illness in the United States was 3.6 percent, down from 4.2...

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18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained In Plain English

A few months ago, Randall Munroe of the webcomic xkcd published a description of the Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most frequent words in English.Under this restriction, the rocket was called...

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Curiosity Grabs Mars Rock Samples For The First Time

NASA's Curiosity rover has drilled into a Martian rock and collected samples, marking the first time any robot has ever performed this complicated maneuver on the surface of another planet.The 1-ton...

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A Goat Ran Amok In Brooklyn On Thursday Night

If you're a goat escaping from a slaughterhouse, try to avoid running into a former goat herder.That's the lesson one runaway goat learned the hard way after a late-night breakout from a slaughterhouse...

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Another Man Is In Intensive Care Because Of A Mysterious Virus From The...

A man who returned recently from the Middle East and Pakistan is under intensive care in a Manchester hospital where he has been confirmed as the first UK resident to be infected by a new form of...

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Your Brain Knows When Your Current Fling Has Long-Term Potential

Clues about whether a new romance will grow into a long-term relationship can be found hidden in the way our brains respond when we think about a new partner, scientists have found.Researchers have...

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The French Are Turning Down Their Night Lights

The French are taking a stand against light pollution. Starting this summer, most non-residential buildings in the country will have to shut off their lights at night in order to “reduce the print of...

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Watch A Huge Glacier Ice Bridge Collapse

Amateur photographer Christian Grosso got a surprise recently when he visited a glacier in Argentina's Patagonia region: an enormous ice bridge connected to the glacier ruptured and fell, causing a...

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Scientists Did Not Really Find 'Where Evil Lurks' In The Brain

Evil is alive and is lurking in the brains of certain individuals, if you believe news reports linked to a respected German neurologist. The news of the scientist's discovery, however, has attracted...

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Even Cheating Baboons Keep Their Affairs Secret

Between secret rendezvous, deleted messages and outright lies, people will go to great lengths to cover up unfaithful acts. But it now seems we aren't unique in our deception — gelada baboons also...

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Here's What Horse Meat Tastes Like

People throughout Ireland and the U.K. have been scandalized by revelations that some of their beef products (such as frozen beef lasagna) have actually been made with horse meat instead of beef.It was...

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5 Things You Probably Don't Want To Know About That Burger You're Eating

In the wake of the horse meat scandal spreading throughout Europe — which misled consumers about what animals they've even been eating, exactly— eaters around the world are taking a much closer look at...

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Monsanto Has Been Suing Small Farmers To Protect Its Seed Patents

The agricultural giant Monsanto has sued hundreds of small farmers in the United States in recent years in attempts to protect its patent rights on genetically engineered seeds that it produces and...

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Being A 'Super-Taster' Isn't As Fabulous As It Sounds

If you're passionate about an art form, be it musical, visual or culinary, it can be galling when others claim to feel your beloved medium more intensely than you. Oh please, you might silently...

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Archaeologists Find One Of The Oldest Temples In The World In Peru

Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old at the ancient El Paraiso archeological site in a valley just north of Lima, the Culture Ministry said.If the date...

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'Extremely Peculiar' Sea Animal Has Disposable Penis

Scientists reported Wednesday on the bizarre sex life of a sea slug that discards its penis after copulation. Then grows a new one."No other animal is known to repeatedly copulate using such...

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Dark Space Cloud Spotted In The Middle Of Millions Of Stars

A dark gecko-shaped nebula nests among millions of stars about 6,000 light-years from the sun in an incredible new image from a telescope in Chile.The photo, released today (Feb. 13) by the European...

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Giant Black Holes Grow Even Faster Than We Thought

Giant black holes are famous for their appetites, but these matter-munching monsters are even greedier than scientists once thought, a new study suggests.The supermassive black holes that lurk at the...

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11 Strange Things You Need To Know About Your Heart

Your heart isn't gold. It isn't sweet. And don't put in on your sleeve — you'll make a mess!Just in time for Valentine's Day, here are 11 scientific facts about your ticker.1. Heart attacksThe most...

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