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Climate Researchers Are Questioning The Claim That Arctic Melting Will Cost...
A scientific controversy erupted this week over claims that methane trapped beneath the Arctic Ocean could suddenly escape, releasing huge quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas, in coming decades,...
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Scientists Petition EPA To Stop Putting Arsenic-Contaminated Fluoride In Water
In early August, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to decide on a petition to change the source of fluoride in U.S. drinking water.Currently, the source of fluoride in most public water...
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All The Times The World Didn't End [INFOGRAPHIC]
Hello! If you're reading this, and you are not an alien race that has extinguished humanity, then the apocalypse hasn't happened yet. In which case, everyone in the infographic you see here was...
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Incan Child Sacrifices Were Fed Drugs And Alcohol In Their Final Months
Three Incan children who were sacrificed 500 years ago were regularly given drugs and alcohol in their final months to make them more compliant in the ritual that ultimately killed them, new research...
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Genetic Engineering May Be The Only Way To Save The Orange
Orange growers are considering genetically modifying your morning OJ. Why? A terrible disease —Scientific American calls it"the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world" — is spreading in...
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Enormous 33-Pound Mushroom Discovered In China Belongs To A New Species
China's Yunnan province is known as the "Kingdom of Mushrooms" for its rich diversity of more than 600 species of edible fungi.But even the hungriest of mushroom fans might find this monster mushroom,...
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Every Month Of Breast-Feeding Increases A Child's Intelligence
Breast-feeding for a longer time improves a child's understanding of language at age 3, and their scores on intelligence tests at age 7, according to a new study.The study, which looked at the practice...
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Scientists Are Petitioning NASA To Search For Martian DNA
Did life on Earth originate on Mars? Or did Earth dispatch life to Mars aboard a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago?In order to investigate the possible origin of life on Mars and Earth, a team...
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Hangovers Make You Stupid And Slow
A hangover can leave you with more than a sore head in the morning — it impairs the way your brain holds and processes information, according to new research.Anyone who has woken up after a heavy night...
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Ancient 'Hall Of The Dead' Unearthed In England
Archaeologists have unearthed two nearly 6,000-year-old burial mounds and the remains of two massive buildings in England.The two wooden long-buildings, or halls, were burnt to the ground; the ashes...
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The Latest In Dental Innovation: Teeth Made From Cells Found In Urine
Scientists have grown teeth from an unlikely source: human urine.Tiny teeth-like structures were developed by a team of scientists hoping to use the technique to create full-grown teeth to replace ones...
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Math Is Key To Surviving A Zombie Apocalypse
This equation could spell your doom: (bN)(S/N)Z = bSZ. That is, if you ever found yourself in the midst of a zombie pandemic.That's because the calculation describes the rate of zombie transmission,...
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Do These Natural Remedies For Digestion Work?
Long before Big Pharma, people used a variety of natural remedies to ease digestive woes. Now that modern medicines are available to treat everything from indigestion to constipation, however, many...
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A Dog's Facial Expression Shows Its Mood
While most dog owners will recognise their pet’s wagging tail as a sign of joy, they may also want to pay more attention to their animal’s face the next time they walk in through the front door.Animal...
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An Extremely Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba Has Infected A 12-Year-Old Girl
A 12-year-old girl in Arkansas has been hospitalized with a case of parasitic meningitis caused by a rare brain-eating amoeba.The Arkansas Department of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
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Internet-Based Psychotherapy Actually Works
Lying on your therapist's couch might be a thing of the past.Why bother, when you could duke it out with your depression by the pool?Online-based therapy could help patients overcome barriers to...
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How Travel Restrictions Slow A Disease Outbreak
During infectious disease outbreaks, personal freedom comes at a price: the welfare of the public as a whole, a new study finds.In the research, scientists investigated whether, in the event of an...
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Why Nicotine Is So Addictive
When someone says a substance is addictive, they can mean two separate things.Physically addictive, more accurately physically dependent, is when your body begins to depend on the presence of a...
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How To Clone A Mammoth
It is unlikely that a mammoth could be cloned in the way we created Dolly the sheep, as has been proposed following the discovery of mammoth bones in northern Siberia. However, the idea prompts us to...
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Here's The Document That Created NASA
This document is the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which created NASA. It was signed into law by President Eisenhower 55 years ago Monday, July 29. The document outlines NASA's policies,...
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