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Scientist Has A Bedbug Breakthrough After Subjecting Herself To 18,000 Bites
For five years, she willingly succumbed each night to the wrath of tiny, bronze-bodied critters who fed on her blood.It was a sacrifice for science.After providing free meals to thousands of bedbugs,...
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Crazy New Indonesian Frog Has Fangs And Births Live Babies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Its fangs are not what makes the newly identified Indonesian frog species Limnonectes larvaepartus unique on Earth. The way it makes babies does.This little amphibian from the...
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Scientists Are Searching For The Genes That Make Whales Live To 200
In a search for genes that fight off aging, researchers have now charted the bowhead whale genome.Bowheads are filter feeders found only in the Arctic, and are some of the largest mammals on Earth. Old...
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These Strange Creatures Use Electricity And Vibration During Sex
Most animals use touch, smell, hearing, taste and sight to identify and attract a mate (that goes for humans too). But some species have additional and unusual weapons in their sexual armoury – the...
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This Graph Shows What 7 Years Of Weight Loss Looks Like
It isn't a straight line.The graph up above is from a patient of mine that I've been seeing since the fall of 2007 (for you Americans, the weight axis is in kg). The fact that her loss is anything but...
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What Men And Women Want From Relationships, According To Math
Popular wisdom and established evolutionary science hold that the sexes seek fundamentally different relationships: men want short-term, no-strings-attached relationships whereas women value...
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Sugars Found In Deep Space Could Reveal The Origins Of Life
Sugars may form in the types of ice found in deep space — a finding that could help to explain how comets and meteorites could have seeded the primordial Earth with key ingredients for life,...
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Here's Why You Almost Always Sneeze More Than Once
Sneezes never seem to be lonely. As soon as you expel your first mighty "achoo," there's usually another sneeze lurking right behind to follow it up.For some people, there may be two, three, or even 10...
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The Insane Story Of A Man Who Was Born A Dwarf And Died A Giant
I often write about rare medical disorders, but there is one extraordinary case which is so strange, that there is only one documented instance of it in medical history.It involves a man who was both a...
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Humanity's Ancestors Have Had Opposable Thumbs For Millions Of Years
The ancestors of humans may have evolved humanlike hands that were precise and powerful enough to use stone tools more than a half million years before such tools were even developed, researchers say.A...
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These Extreme Forms Of Life Make Scientists Think That Alien Life Is Real
Kenneth Nealson is looking awfully sane for a man who's basically just told me that he has a colony of aliens incubating in his laboratory.We're huddled in his modest office at the University of...
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Snakes Were Around On Earth 65 Million Years Longer Than We Thought
Snakes have been slithering on Earth far longer than anyone ever realized.Scientists on Tuesday described the four oldest-known snake fossils, the most ancient of which was a roughly 10-inch-long (25...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about snot
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Science says humans are hardwired to be prejudiced
Humans are highly social creatures. Our brains have evolved to allow us to survive and thrive in complex social environments. Accordingly, the behaviors and emotions that help us navigate our social...
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Here's what aliens living on Jupiter's beautiful moon Europa might look like
The giant planet Jupiter is one of the last places humans would ever look for life beyond Earth, but the planet's enigmatic moon Europa is a different story entirely.For 20 years, astrobiologists have...
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Killer shrimp could invade the Great Lakes
Killer shrimp, creatures that indiscriminately slay other animals without eating them, may soon join the list of invasive species living in the Great Lakes, a new study finds.But government regulations...
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Your dog can tell when you look happy or sad
It's not difficult for a dog to be able to pick up when you're ticked off at them. You might shout, adopt a dominant stance and lower the tone of your voice to let dear Fido know that peeing in your...
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The crazy story of the first chimp-to-human heart transplant
When Boyd Rush, aged 68, was admitted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center on 23 January 1964, Dr James Hardy [below] was waiting for him.Hardy, who had been conducting research on organ...
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This massive plant took 80 years to flower and it now has one month to live
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at...
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Humans have sex to keep the species healthy
A theory for why sexual reproduction is usually a better method for transferring genes than asexual reproduction has gained support. In the process, scientists have gained another tool to help them...
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