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The changing ratios of calcium and barium in the teeth of modern humans and macaques chronicle the transition from mother"s milk to solid food -- and may provide clues about ...
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Protection against the disease pertussis, or whooping cough , doesn"t appear to be as strong with the currently administered vaccine when compared with the older version ...
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Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday ...
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Identification and treatment issues surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are challenging enough. Now research is shedding light on long-term outcomes ...
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Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way... Read More » ...
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Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way... Read More » ...
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Hot on the heels of detecting the two highest-energy neutrinos ever observed, scientists working with a mammoth particle detector buried in ice near the South Pole unveiled ...
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Out of sight (and smell), natural gas slowly bubbled up into Norma Fiorentino"s private water well near the town of Dimock in northeastern Pennsylvania--in the heart of the ...
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How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insect’s tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they... Read More » ...
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From Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD , by Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmüller. Copyright © Synergetic Press, May 15, ...
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The D-Wave Two quantum computer has a 512-qubit processor (pictured) that can do some calculations thousands of times faster than conventional computers. Image: D-Wave ...
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On a rooftop in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, two students are collecting soil samples from boxes planted with species from two native plant communities: Hempstead ...
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A discovery of the oldest known fossils from two major primate groups fills in a 10-million-year gap in the record and reveals new information about evolution Two new ...
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From Afghanistan to Somalia, the struggle to eradicate polio continues to lurch along in fits and starts. The past few days have brought a modicum of good news and some ...
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ROADKILL: Vehicle-wildlife collisions continue to increase, endangering both people and animals. Image: Courtesy of Matthew J. Aresco. Why do testicles hang the way they do? ...
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AIR CAPTURE: Could this plastic embedded with resin help draw down atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide? Image: © David Biello Showcasing more than fifty of the most ...
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Conor Jackson had a big bat and a bright future. But after he contracted a rare illness in 2009 while playing with the Arizona Diamondbacks he was never quite the same. ...
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On Mednyi Island in the Bering Sea some arctic foxes, such as the one shown here on the left, are in poor health condition, possibly because of mercury poisoning. Image: PLOS ...
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Everyone knows that cigarettes are bad for you. Yet 45 million Americans smoke , a habit that shaves a decade off life expectancy and causes cancer as well as heart and lung ...
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In the pitched debate over genetically modified (GM) foods and crops, it can be hard to see where scientific evidence ends and dogma and speculation begin. In the nearly 20 ...
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Near the moonscape summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, an infrared analyzer will soon make history. Sometime in the next month, it is expected to record a daily ...
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When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm, says Anastasia Bodnar, "we were promised rocket jet packs" -- futuristic, ...
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Wherever you go on this blue, green and white globe of ours, odds are some person has been there before you—and left a mark. That's because the hunting, farming or burning ...
