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A best-selling author reveals what it was like to get a flesh-eating disease...
As the sun set over his campsite one evening, author Douglas Preston silently congratulated himself on still being alive.Preston had spent the last week in a remote jungle in Honduras. In that time, he...
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Neuroscientists won $1 million for their work unraveling the biological...
LONDON (Reuters) — Three neuroscientists won the world's most valuable prize for brain research on Monday for pioneering work on the brain's reward pathways — a system that is central to human and...
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These award-winning science images show the world in ways you've never imagined
Every day, scientists work to understand the aspects of the world that are completely unknown to the rest of us. Some study the way blood vessels provide oxygen to an African Grey parrot, others follow...
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Ancient tooth plaque reveals what our extinct human relatives really ate
While some of our ancient human relatives feasted on wild sheep and woolly rhinoceroses, others were satiated by a more ascetic diet of mushrooms and moss.These findings come from a new analysis of...
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The House GOP is pushing a bill that would let employers demand workers'...
A little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that...
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Here’s why fish float upside down when they die
Few things in childhood are more traumatising than waking up one morning to find your beloved pet fish, Michael Scofield, floating upside down in his tank (true story); his tiny fishy light cruelly...
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A new theory could overturn one of the most central 'facts' about dinosaurs
Much of what we "know" about dinosaurs has changed in recent years.We've learned that many of them were covered in feathers, that part of what drove them extinct was how long it took for their eggs to...
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Scientists turned spinach leaves into beating human heart tissue
Researchers have successfully used spinach leaves to build functioning human heart tissue, complete with veins that can transport blood.To tackle a chronic shortage of donor organs, scientists have...
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The largest dinosaur footprint ever found has been discovered in 'Australia's...
On a 25-kilometer stretch of coastline in Western Australia lies a prehistoric treasure trove.Thousands of approximately 130 million-year-old dinosaur footprints are embedded in a stretch of land that...
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Spiders eat up to 800 million tons of prey each year, more than all humans weigh
Don't look now, but there's probably a spider right next to you — more or less, anyway.It's probably hungry, because those little guys eat a whole lot, according to a study recently published in the...
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Photos of new tiger cubs in Thailand reveal a 'miraculous' comeback for the...
Bangkok - Conservationists on Tuesday hailed the discovery of a new breeding population of tigers in Thailand as a "miraculous" victory for a sub-species nearly wiped out by poaching.Images of some...
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Scientists have created 'immortal' cells that could allow them to make...
Researchers have developed a line immortal stem cells that allow them to generate an unlimited supply of artificial red blood cells on demand.If these artificial blood cells pass clinical trials,...
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Here's where you're most likely to run into American wildlife that could kill...
In June 2016, a 2-year-old boy was playing near the water at a Disney World resort when an alligator attacked and killed him. A black bear attacked a woman running the marathon in New Mexico a few days...
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An ancient tick found in amber contains monkey blood from 20 to 30 million...
The tick was fat with blood before it died, having just feasted on a monkey. But searching fingers likely found the bug nestled in its host's fur during a grooming ritual.Primates bond by picking at...
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There’s a scientific explanation for why you’re a morning person or night owl...
Early risers are often glorified — there's the well-known saying about the early bird catching the worm, and many articles, blog posts, and Reddit threads about the benefits of getting up at 4:30...
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Scientists developed this 9-question test to measure how sadistic you are
Science can't say whether people in your life are good or evil, per se. But it's getting better at figuring out whether they enjoy hurting you.A fairly new field in personality research studies...
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I got my dog’s DNA tested and what I learned shocked me
The board of a luxury New York City apartment complex raised concerns about "dog racism" in 2015, when it started requiring residents to test their dogs' DNA before granting the animals permission to...
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Dogs see the world very differently from human beings — here's how it works
As humans, how we perceive the world is how we define our own reality. And for the vast majority of humans, perception is handled through sight. Your hearing, and your senses of smell, taste, and touch...
View ArticleA fascinating new science experiment proves that we can grow babies outside...
Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have created an artificial womb. Inside of the womb, they placed a premature lamb fetus. They then kept the fetus in the womb for four...
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A rare white-haired and blue-eyed albino orangutan has been rescued on Borneo...
Palangkaraya (Indonesia) (AFP) - A rare albino orangutan has been rescued on the Indonesian part of Borneo island where villagers were keeping the white-haired, blue-eyed creature in a cage, a...
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