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How Parasites Take Over The Minds Of Animals And Turn Them Into Zombies
Some species of viruses, fungi, protozoans, wasps, and tapeworms take over the brains and actions of the animals and insects they infect — making them do whatever their new master wants.A recent issue...
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Researchers Make A Big Fertility Breakthrough
You can forget about the birds and the bees.If you really want to learn how babies are made, you need to know about Juno and Izumo.Fertilization takes place when an egg cell and a sperm cell recognize...
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The Smartest Animals In The World
All animals, from ants to elephants, make decisions. And nature's critters continuously surprise humans with their thinking abilities. Of course, it's hard to make a definitive ranking since measuring...
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Hiking Through Peru Showed One Journalist The True Dangers Of Climate Change
Rising sea levels and more extreme temperatures aren't the only problems we can anticipate as the Earth warms. Climate change is causing local extinctions of plants and animals — and in places like the...
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An Animal Will Be Perfectly Recreated In A Computer For The First Time Ever
The first animal to have its genome mapped is about to be the first to be completely re-created in the digital world.This is thanks to a Kickstarter project called OpenWorm, which will digitally...
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18,000 New Species Were Discovered Last Year — Here Are The Best
A sea anemone that lives under an Antarctic glacier and a translucent snail from Croatia are among the top 10 new species of 2014 named by an international team of scientists on Thursday. The list...
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Here's Why Cats Go Crazy For Catnip
Everyone knows cats go crazy for catnip. It's an effect that's been noted in scientific literature as far back as the 18th Century, when scientists observed that cats seemed to be attracted to catnip...
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What Happens When Your Foot Falls Asleep
BI Answers: Why does your foot lose feeling when it falls asleep?You've had your foot bent in an awkward position for a long time, and now it feels kind of numb, making it difficult to stand up. When...
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These Baby Horses Were Born From Frozen Embryos
Attention horse lovers: A new technique could make it easier to breed the next Secretariat or Flicka.Four new foals have been born from frozen embryos, a tricky task given the structure of horse...
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Learning About Salamanders Could Help Us Regrow Limbs
Humans have some regenerative abilities but compared to creatures like the salamander, which has an amazing ability to regenerate after injury, we're pretty limited. Not only are salamanders the only...
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A Chip In This Man's Brain Let Him Will His Paralyzed Hand To Move
Ian Burkhart hasn't been able to control his hands since 2010. He was celebrating the end of freshman year at a beach, smashed into a sandbar, and broken his neck. In an instant he lost all feeling in...
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Why Oatmeal Keeps You Feeling Full For An Insanely Long Time
Glance through a popular magazine's list of healthy breakfast foods and you'll likely find oatmeal in the group. Among other benefits, oatmeal is touted as having the ability to keep you full,...
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Fossilized Human Poop Reveals The Real Paleo Diet
Don't laugh, but the discovery of the oldest known human poop is offering valuable scientific insight into the life of Neanderthals who lived in Spain some 50,000 years ago.Scientists said on Wednesday...
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Chimps Hate Pop Music
If you ever run into a group of chimpanzees in a record store, you may find them congregating around the Indian classical section.That's according to a new study that tested the musical tastes of...
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Epic Hunt Between A Jaguar And A Croc Leaves One Dead
This incredible video below shows a hunt in action. At the beginning, it's hard to be sure what's going on:What happens next? What's that head in the water? Here's the big reveal:The video was captured...
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Meet The Insane-Looking ‘Vampire’ Squirrel
Behold the tufted ground squirrel, one of the strangest tree-dwelling rodents found on Earth. Native to Borneo, it is rarely seen &mdash one camera trap study in a park on the island turned up only...
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Tibetans Have Special Genetic Mutations That Help Them Thrive At High Altitudes
Genetic mutations from an extinct human lineage help Tibetans and Sherpas live at high altitudes, researchers say.The new findings add to growing evidence that interbreeding with other human lineages...
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Ancient Human Had Neanderthal Ear — Was It Interbreeding?
The remains of an ancient human in China not thought to be Neanderthal has an inner ear much like that of humans' closest extinct relatives, according to a new study. These new findings could be...
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Can Humans Smell Fear?
If humans can indeed smell fear they wouldn't be unusual in the animal kingdom. Sea anemones, earthworms, minnows, fruit flies, rats, mice, and deer, among others, have all been shown to signal unease...
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How Humans Have Changed In The Last 100 Years
Humans are getting taller; they're also fatter than ever and live longer than at any time in history. And all of these changes have occurred in the past 100 years, scientists say.So is evolution via...
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