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There's no such thing as an alpha male
Eric Trump recently suggested that when his father, Donald Trump, bragged about grabbing women's genitals without consent, it was an example of "two alpha guys in a thing."In addition to shedding some...
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Gross cheese and picky French people are helping scientists figure out what...
Ew, cheese.Disgusting!Quel bleh!It turns out, a lot of French people find cheese gross. And that's great news for science.Here's why.The French researchers behind a study published Monday in the...
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This mouse was grown from its mother's skin cells
For the first time, researchers have grown eggs entirely in a lab dish.Skin-producing cells called fibroblasts from the tip of an adult mouse’s tail have been reprogrammed to make eggs, Japanese...
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Scientists discovered a two-headed shark
For the first time, scientists have observed a two-headed shark growing in an egg.Workers on a research vessel collected the embryonic fish as part of an expedition that retrieved 797 embryos from the...
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Scientists have identified 3 keys to addiction in the brain
Why can't you quit drinking? Why can't your dad quit cigarettes? Why can't your friend quit cocaine?There's an easy, incomplete answer: You have addictions. You have a disorder that compromises the...
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In the 1800s, doctors conducted ghastly experiments on corpses’ brains
On November 4, 1818, Scottish chemist Andrew Ure stood next to the lifeless corpse of an executed murderer, the man hanging by his neck at the gallows only minutes before. He was performing an...
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Heat maps are helping researchers understand your dog's feelings
Come across an image like this, and you'd be a weirdo not to investigate. Meet infrared thermography, a non-invasive way to visualize changes to body surface temperature. Thermographic video cameras...
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Mark Zuckerberg wants to create an unprecedented map of how human cells work
Stephen Quake's laboratory at Stanford University looks like biology's version of Thomas Edison's famous New Jersey workshop. Roll-down curtains cast shadows across odd devices buzzing and clicking in...
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Blue coral snake venom is ridiculously potent and causes instant paralysis
While all venomous snake bites are a serious worry, most take longer than you'd expect to kill a fully grown human. That's because venom typically works by slowing down the body's vital systems until...
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A heart-pounding video of a lizard escaping a minefield of snakes is going viral
The first episode of "Planet Earth II," the sequel to BBC's acclaimed documentary miniseries, aired Sunday. And it was amazing.Possibly the most stirring moment in the episode involved a lone lizard...
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Scientists are tickling giggly rats to crack the mysteries of laughter
At parties and bars, he introduces himself as a "rat tickler."The title makes Shimpei Ishiyama sound like he belongs in some forgotten guild of yore, with the Victorian "pure-finders," who collected...
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Why an investor at Andreessen Horowitz thinks software is the future of...
It's not exactly surprising that a partner of a venture capital firm with a tagline that "software is eating the world" thinks the same could be said for the drug industry.Vijay Pande, a general...
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Humans are still evolving in some surprising ways
It's often said that through our innovations in science, agriculture and medicine humans have become masters of our biological destiny.That we've seized control of our evolution, eliminating most of...
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Some almost never-seen whales have been hanging out right by New York City
On November 14, a recently-deployed high-tech buoy floating in the New York Bight picked up a rare sound, the "up call" of one of the estimated 500 living North Atlantic right whales.It was the second...
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Here's the science behind why it's so hard to maintain eye contact when...
Why do you glance off to the side when you speak? It's like you're trying to pull a word out of some blank space in the distance.Breaking eye contact mid-sentence is a strange habit, but almost...
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Scientists have created working human nerves in a lab
In a breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists have grown intestinal tissues with functional nerves in a laboratory setup using human pluripotent stem cells. The synthesized tissue was used to...
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NYU otologist Dr. Erich Voigt explains why it is important to be careful about how close you trim nose hairs.Produced by Delano SamuelsFollow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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The end of coconut water? The world's trendiest nut is under threat of...
“Orange juice for breakfast is over,” an investor interested in creating large, fair trade coconut plantations recently joked to me. These days, coconut water is king.For the trendy and the wealthy,...
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Newly-unearthed Mammoth remains could help reveal when humans first arrived...
Last year, the bones of a gigantic mammoth were dug up from a farmer's field in Michigan. Many mammoth remains have been unearthed over the decades, but this one was particularly exciting for...
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A Harvard scientist just won $3 million for discovering the hidden...
Almost every cell in a human body carries a copy of our genetic code, the DNA that holds the unique biological blueprint for who we are.That DNA tells our cells what to do. When they divide, that...
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