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Earth's 6th mass extinction has begun, and there are no signs that humans...
Scientists recently suggested that Earth's sixth mass extinction has begun. As terrifying as that sounds, surely humans are too smart and important to get wiped out, right?Paleontologists have long...
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An incredible doomsday vault, buried deep in an Arctic mountain, is coming to...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located 500-feet deep inside a mountain on a remote island situated between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is designed to help humanity in times of utmost need.It...
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This is what the inside of a great white shark looks like
Great white sharks are usually seen as cold-blooded killers, thanks to films like "Jaws."But the truth is, great whites rarely attack humans. More people are killed by kitchen toasters each year than...
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The first results of a brain study reveal something fascinating about smart,...
Traits like IQ, memory, and the tendency to use drugs are related to the number of brain connections we have, according to a new study.The researchers found that people with more traits the researchers...
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10 amazing facts about New York City's rats
The internet went wild last week over a video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza down the steps of a New York City subway. But "pizza rat" is just the tip of the iceberg.Rats are some of the most...
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A research foundation just tripled its funding for Obama's massive project to...
A research foundation announced plans Thursday to invest $100 million in the BRAIN Initiative, the Obama administration's ambitious project to develop new tools to understand the human brain and its...
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CRISPR, the fancy new technology that lets people edit genes, could have an...
Scientists are abuzz over a new technique that lets people edit the genes of practically any animal.The method, known as CRISPR, holds the potential to fix genetic defects that cause disease in humans....
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A controversial new gene-editing technology could win a Nobel — and a fight...
Every year, people try to predict who will win a Nobel Prize in science. This year, Thompson Reuters named two scientists for the discovery of a powerful technology for editing genomes, known as...
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An invasive species of ant is handling South Carolina's floods better than...
A torrential downpour recently hit parts of South Carolina in what state officials are calling a 1,000-year storm, CNN reports.As of Monday, over 550 roads and highways were still closed due to severe...
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3 scientists just won a Nobel for discovering the genetic mechanisms that...
The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar for their research into the mechanisms that cells use to repair DNA.The three scientists, from Sweden, the...
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An AIDS vaccine that has been in the works for almost 2 decades is finally...
A new AIDS vaccine trial is about to begin in the US, and this one is a little different — the vaccine has been developed over the past 15 years by Robert Gallo, the scientist who first proved in 1984...
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Divers off the coast of Portugal recorded this spectacular footage of a...
An incredible video of divers swimming with an ocean sunfish has been posted on YouTube by photographer Miguel Pereira.The spectacular footage shows the divers being dwarfed by this floating giant just...
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Theranos calls explosive WSJ story questioning its technology 'baseless' and...
Early this morning, the Wall Street Journal published an investigative report that said former Theranos employees claimed the company was not using their own new "revolutionary" blood tests for the...
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The miraculous reasons woodpeckers can slam their faces into trees all day...
BI ANSWERS: Do woodpeckers get brain damage?Right now, over 200 species of woodpeckers around the world are slamming their faces into the side of a tree without a second thought about what this kind of...
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10 times scientists genetically modified animals and came up with some weird...
Frankenstein may be a work of fiction, but these experiments are real.For decades, scientists have been tweaking the genes of animals to give them desirable (and sometimes just plain bizarre) traits....
View ArticleScientists have discovered why American honey bees are turning into zombies
A California based group has discovered a growing threat to the American honey bee population that turns them into "zombees." The research by Dr John Hafernik and his team have discovered that the...
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Scientists just found the oldest chemical evidence of life on Earth
Evidence of life on Earth 4.1 billion years ago has been discovered in Western Australia, pushing estimates of when living organisms first emerged back 300 million years.Scientists found a zircon...
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12 weird things space travel does to the human body
This month NASA astronaut Scott Kelly hit an incredible milestone: He has spent more time in space than any other American in history.Oct. 16, 2015, marked his 383rd total day spent zooming 250 miles...
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Chinese scientists just made the world's first genetically edited, super...
Get ready for designer dogs.Researchers in China have created the first dogs whose DNA was modified by gene editing.By tweaking a dog’s DNA to cut out a gene for the muscle-limiting protein myostatin,...
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A select group of people have an uncanny ability to remember faces for years
Some people cannot, for the life of them, remember a face.The neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks famously wrote about this condition, known as face blindness or prosopagnosia, in his book "The Man Who...
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