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Reasons for malaria's drug resistance discovered
Virtual bodyswapping diminishes people's negative biases about others
Show us how you play and it may tell us who you are
Migrating 'supraglacial' lakes could trigger future Greenland ice loss
Stretched-out solid exoplanets
New insights into origins of agriculture could help shape future of food
An anti-anxiety drug has "woken up" a minimally-conscious patient
This toad was born with eyes in the roof of its mouth
Scientists observe the Earth grow a new layer under an Icelandic volcano
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NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami wave' still flies through interstellar space
Switching to vehicles powered by electricity from renewables could save lives
Cost of cloud brightening for cooler planet revealed
Reshaping the horse through millennia: Sequencing reveals genes selected by humans in domestication
Dental plaque reveals key plant in prehistoric Easter Island diet
Fermi brings deeper focus to thunderstorm gamma-rays
Molecular 'hats' allow in vivo activation of disguised signaling peptides
There are now just five northern white rhinos left in the world
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Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
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How brain can distinguish good from bad smells
Feeling younger than actual age meant lower early death rate for older people, study finds
A lot or a little? Wolves discriminate quantities better than dogs
New technology directly reprograms skin fibroblasts for a new role
NIST physicists build a watt balance using LEGO blocks to measure Planck's constant
Future batteries: Lithium-sulfur with a graphene wrapper
Curiosity rover finds active, ancient organic chemistry on Mars
Intensive agriculture may have exacerbated drought in ancient Maya city
WATCH: Skype has launched an instant translator
Sparks literally fly when an egg meets sperm, world-first images reveal
Welcome to the office of the future
Cutting a baby’s umbilical cord 2 minutes later can improve development
Bacteria on pubic hair could be used to identify rapists
Mysterious martian gouges carved by dry ice
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NASA's MAVEN Mars orbiter mission identifies links in chain leading to atmospheric loss
DARPA Has Created Self-Guided, Mid-Flight Changing Bullets
Runtastic turns to VR for optimal workouts
Baby cells learn to communicate using the lsd1 gene
Is the Higgs boson a piece of the matter-antimatter puzzle?
Microbiome may have shaped early human populations
Study reveals abundance of microplastics in the world's deep seas
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Biologist reveals how whales may 'sing' for their supper
Thumbs-up for mind-controlled robotic arm
Big-data analysis reveals gene sharing in mice
Unraveling the light of fireflies
Research shows Jaws didn't kill his cousin
Herd mentality: Are we programmed to make bad decisions?
Study finds an exoplanet, tilted on its side, could still be habitable if covered in ocean
Scientists have found a way to make graphene magnetic
Here's when you should be drinking your coffee, according to science
Men who like spicy food have higher testosterone levels, study suggests
Three short walks can reverse the damage of three hours of sitting
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Study shows starving mantis females attract more males
Origin of the Eukaryotic cell: Part II - Cytoskeleton, membranes, and beyond
BPG image format judged awesome versus JPEG
Team opens new frontier of vast chemical 'space', makes dozens of new chemical entities
Can e-cigarettes actually help smokers quit?
Spacecraft spots probable waves on Titan’s seas
The UK is successfully crowd-funding themselves to the Moon
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Lens-free microscope can detect cancer at cellular level
DNA sheds light on why largest lemurs disappeared: Giant lemurs' demise linked to size, low numbers
NASA data underscore severity of California drought
MESSENGER data suggest recurring meteor shower on Mercury
Surprising theorists, stars within middle-aged clusters are of similar age
Electric field switching of ferromagnetism at room temperature
Spider's web weaves way to advanced networks and displays
Ultrafast imaging of complex systems in 3D at near atomic resolution nears
Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters discovered deep underground at locations around the world
New conversion process turns biomass 'waste' into lucrative chemical products (w/ Video)
NASA satellites measure increase of Sun's energy absorbed in the Arctic
'Perfect storm' quenching star formation around a supermassive black hole
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Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
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Contamination of impacted meteorites can happen quickly
New technique moves researchers closer to new range of GaN biosensors
India launches biggest ever rocket into space
550-million-year-old fossils provide new clues about fossil formation
Electron spin could be the key to high-temperature superconductivity
Copper bed rails kill hospital-related infections on contact
WATCH: What’s the most radioactive place on Earth?
Learning a new word stimulates the same region of the brain as sex
Climate change could slash coffee production
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Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
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Life expectancy increases globally as death toll falls from major diseases
Birds sensed severe storms and fled before tornado outbreak
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs may have nearly knocked off mammals, too
Instant-start computers possible with new breakthrough
Genetic ancestry of different ethnic groups varies across the United States
Expectant fathers experience prenatal hormone changes
Origin of 'theta aurora'—long-standing space mystery—revealed
Newest computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain
U.S. Christmas lights seen from space
NASA Wants To Establish A Floating Cloud City To Study Venus
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A clear, molecular view of how human color vision evolved
'Tipping points' for sea level rise related flooding determined
Signs of Europa plumes remain elusive in search of Cassini data
Quantum physics just got less complicated
Japanese scientist resigns over stem cell scandal
Thermoelectric power plants could offer economically competitive renewable energy
Compact galaxy groups reveal details of their close encounters
Computers think these random patterns are real objects
Most mammals take 21 seconds to pee, regardless of their size
Ibuprofen boosts some organisms’ life spans
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Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
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Biggest science stories of 2014. According to io9 anyway.
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Neuroscientists identify brain mechanisms that predict generosity in children
Europe shows that humans and large predators can share the same landscape
Scientists reveal breakthrough in optical fibre communications
New technique reveals immune cell motion through variety of tissues
Yellowstone's thermal springs—their colors unveiled
New species and surprising findings in the Mariana Trench
Researchers open possible avenue to better electrolyte for lithium ion batteries
Research pair devise a way to make nylon precursor that is less harmful to the ozone layer
Fish Converts Oyster Shell Into Speaker, Blasts Noise
Lips Are The Most Exposed Erogenous Zone, Which Makes Kissing Feel Very Good
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Ancient clay seals may shed light on biblical era
Japan scientists develop micro-fine adhesive sensors
Off-world manufacturing is a go with space printer
'Dinosaur eggs' spotted on Rosetta’s comet
Experts Say Half The Advice On Dr. Oz And The Doctors Is Wrong Or Lacks Evidence
World’s Oldest African Penguin Fights Skin Cancer
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No 'bird brains'? Crows exhibit advanced relational thinking, study suggests
Lost memories might be able to be restored, suggests research into marine snail
Early exposure to antidepressants affects adult anxiety, serotonin transmission
Choreography of an electron pair
Truffles contain 'bliss' molecule
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Halting photons could lead to miniature particle accelerators, improved data transmission
Video gives astronaut's-eye view inside NASA's Orion spacecraft
The importance of three-way atom interactions in maintaining coherence
What was the 'Paleo diet'? There was far more than one, study suggests
Piezoelectricity in 2-D semiconductor holds promise for future MEMS
Coral reveals long-term link between Pacific winds, global climate
Brain scans have revealed why some people get so depressed in winter
Researchers solve the mystery of how humans evolved colour vision
This device can diagnose 1,000 pathogens in your blood in 6 hours
This is why you’re always getting lost
Less tasty shrimp, thanks to climate change
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Cells 'feel' their surroundings using finger-like structures
Modern genetics confirm ancient relationship between fins and hands
New non-invasive method can detect Alzheimer's disease early
Light-emitting e-readers before bedtime can adversely impact sleep
New technology makes tissues, someday maybe organs
Astrophysicists offer new research, tool for identifying habitable zones
Acoustic tweezers manipulate cell-to-cell contact
Lightweight skeletons of modern humans have recent origin
Artificial sweeteners bring on glucose intolerance and alter gut microbiota
This is why you're so hangry, according to science
Orbiter spots solar particles penetrating deep into atmosphere of Mars
Wild gorilla creates a food tool in 'eureka' moment
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Scientists 'map' water vapor in Martian atmosphere
The Milky Way's new neighbor: Tiny and isolated dwarf galaxy discovered
Drug helps Huntington’s disease-afflicted mice, and their offspring
Of bugs and brains: Striking similarities in brain structures across invertebrates
Huge electric field found in ice-cold laughing gas
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Continental works on infrared for car multi-touch
Scientists discover oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey
Indiegogo project NANOPLUG – Offering the world's smallest hearing aid
Peer review could reject breakthrough manuscripts, study shows
Spectacular real virgin births
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New programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web page components
Researchers shed light on how 'microbial dark matter' might cause disease
Building a machine that sorts candy colors with iPhone
European fire ant impacts forest ecosystems by helping alien plants spread
Christmas colors disguise gliding lizards in the rainforest
Rudolph Versus Bambi: A Conservation Dilemma
Judge returns Great Lakes wolves to endangered species list
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Ultrasounds dance the 'moonwalk' in new metamaterial
Could playing Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' and other music improve kids' brains?
Molecular mechanism behind health benefits of dietary restriction identified
That smartphone is giving your thumbs superpowers
Trial confirms Ebola vaccine candidate safe, equally immunogenic in Africa
Researchers propose ballistic capture as cheaper path to Mars
World's most complex crystal simulated
Locking mechanism found for 'scissors' that cut DNA
Egg and sperm race: Scientists create precursors to human egg and sperm in the lab
Climate change threat to mussels' shells
What the 'fecal prints' of microbes can tell us about Earth's evolution
WATCH: This new device turns plastic into edible mushrooms
Pros of incest outweigh cons for mongooses
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Putting bedbugs to bed forever
Research sheds light on what causes cells to divide
Ionic liquids open door to better rare-earth materials processing
America's place in the sun: Energy report sets goal
Optogenetics captures neuronal transmission in live mammalian brain
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Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
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That is cool, the Caenorhabditis simulate. Of course, it helps that Caenorhabditis has a defined (and small!) number of neurons. Far smaller than a human one, anyhow.
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