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Kung Fu Stegosaur: Lethal Fighters When Necessary
Big Black Holes Can Block New Stars
Lab-Developed Intestinal Organoids Form Mature Human Tissue in Mice
Origins of Sex Discovered: Side-by-Side Copulation in Distant Ancestors
Scientists Restore Hearing in Noise-Deafened Mice, Pointing Way to New Therapies
Let There Be Light: Evolution of Complex Bioluminescent Traits May Be Predictable
Cosmic Rays Threaten Future Deep-Space Astronaut Missions
Exposure to Aluminum May Impact on Male Fertility, Research Suggests
Ocean's Living Carbon Pumps: When Viruses Attack Giant Algal Blooms, Global Carbon Cycles Are Affected
Tarantula Venom Illuminates Electrical Activity in Live Cells
Change Your Walking Style, Change Your Mood
House Fly Genome Reveals Expanded Immune System
Roman Gladiators Ate a Mostly Vegetarian Diet and Drank a Tonic of Ashes After Training
Imaging Electric Charge Propagating Along Microbial Nanowires
Major Breakthrough Could Help Detoxify Pollutants
- Stegosaurs: Lethal Fighters When Necessary
- Big Black Holes Can Block New Stars
- Lab-Made Organoids Form Human Tissue in Mice
- Origins of Sex: Copulation in Distant Ancestors
- Hearing Restored in Noise-Deafened Mice
- Predictable Evolution of Bioluminescent Traits
- Cosmic Rays Threaten Astronaut Missions
- Exposure to Aluminum Impacts Male Fertility?
- Earth's Carbon Cycles Affected by Algal Blooms
- Tarantula Venom Shows Electricity in Live Cells
- Change Your Walking Style, Change Your Mood
- House Fly Genome Reveals Expanded Immune System
- Roman Gladiators: Vegetarians That Drank Ashes
- Electric Charge in Microbial Nanowires
- Major Breakthrough to Help Detoxify Pollutants
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Thermal Paper Cash Register Receipts Account for High Bisphenol A (BPA) Levels in Humans
Baby Cries Show Evidence of Cocaine Exposure During Pregnancy
Highly Effective New Anti-Cancer Drug Shows Few Side Effects in Mice
Fast Modeling of Cancer Mutations
How Lymph Nodes Expand During Disease
Bariatric Surgery Success Influenced by How People View Their Own Weight
Lessons from 'Spanish Flu,' Nearly 100 Years Later
Drones Help Show How Environmental Changes Affect the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Nanoparticle-Based Invention Moves New Drugs Closer to Clinical Testing
Quality of Biopsy Directly Linked to Survival in Patients With Bladder Cancer
- Cash Register Receipts Cause High BPA Levels
- Evidence of Cocaine Exposure in Baby Cries
- Effective New Anti-Cancer Drug: Few Side Effects
- Fast Modeling of Cancer Mutations
- How Lymph Nodes Expand During Disease
- Bariatric Surgery Success Affected by Weight Bias
- Lessons from Spanish Flu, Nearly 100 Years Later
- Drones Help Show How Infectious Diseases Spread
- Nanoparticle-Based Invention Gets Drugs to Tumors
- Bladder Cancer Survival: Quality of Biopsy Linked
Brain Simulation Raises Questions
Mathematical Model Shows How Brain Remains Stable During Learning
Human Skin Cells Reprogrammed Directly Into Brain Cells
Association Between Air Toxics, Childhood Autism
Criminologists Try to Solve Murder Mystery: Who Will Become a Killer?
Clinical Trial Could Change Standard Treatment for Stroke
Susceptibility for Relapsing Major Depressive Disorder Can Be Calculated
Genes Exhibit Different Behaviours in Different Stages of Development
Unsteady on Your Feet? Little Touches Could Make All the Difference
How Troubled Marriage, Depression History Promote Obesity
- Brain Simulation Raises Questions
- How Brain Remains Stable During Learning
- Human Skin Cells Reprogrammed Into Brain Cells
- Association Between Air Toxics, Childhood Autism
- Criminologists Gauge Who Might Become a Killer
- Clinical Trial Could Change Treatment for Stroke
- Major Depressive Disorder: Relapse Predictable?
- Genes Affect Brain Differently at Different Ages
- Unsteady On Your Feet? Little Touches Help
- How Troubled Marriage, Depression Promote Obesity
Olive Oil More Stable and Healthful Than Seed Oils for Frying Food
Getting Healthier Before Surgery Gives Patients a Jump Start on Recovery
High Percentage of Recalled Dietary Supplements Still Have Banned Ingredients
Resetting the Circadian Clock: Shift Workers Might Want to Skip High-Iron Foods at Night
Survey Shows What Americans Fear Most
Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease: New Research on Walnuts
Memory Decline Among Menopausal Women Could Be Next Research Frontier for Hypnotic Relaxation Therapy
Misreporting Diet Information Could Impact Nutrition Recommendations for Hispanics
Child's Poor Decision-Making Skills Can Predict Later Behavior Problems, Research Shows
New Viral Mutation Made Middle-Aged Adults More Susceptible to Last Year's Flu
- Olive Oil Better Than Seed Oils for Frying Food
- Getting Healthy Before Surgery Helps Recovery
- Recalled Dietary Supplements: Banned Ingredients
- Shift Workers Should Skip High-Iron Food at Night
- What Americans Fear Most
- Fight Against Alzheimer's: Research on Walnuts
- Menopause: Hypnotic Relaxation for Memory Decline
- Misreporting Diet Information Impacts Nutrition?
- Kid's Decision-Making Skills Can Predict Problems
- Last Year's Flu Especially Hard On Middle-Aged
New Ultra-Thin 3-D Display Technology Promises Greater Energy Efficiency
As Permafrost Soils Thaw Soil Microbes Amplify Global Climate Change
A 'Star Wars' Laser Bullet -- This Is What It Really Looks Like
Skin Patch Could Replace the Syringe for Disease Diagnosis
New Devices Based on Metamaterials
Nanoparticle Technology Triples the Production of Biogas
Cooling to Almost Absolute Zero With Magnetic Molecules
Cheaper Silicon Means Cheaper Solar Cells
New Feather Findings Get Scientists in a Flap
Special Microscope Captures Defects in Nanotubes
- Ultra-Thin 3-D Display: No Power Source Needed
- New Microbe Is Key Player in Climate Change
- What a 'Star Wars' Laser Bullet Really Looks Like
- Skin Patch Instead of Syringe for Diagnosis
- New Devices Based On Metamaterials
- Nanoparticle Technology Ups Production of Biogas
- Cooling to Almost Absolute Zero With Molecules
- Cheaper Silicon Means Cheaper Solar Cells
- New Feather Findings Get Scientists in a Flap
- Special Microscope Shows Defects in Nanotubes
Titan Glowing at Dusk and Dawn
Two Families of Comets Found Around Nearby Star: Biggest Census Ever of Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris
New Window on the Early Universe
POLARBEAR Detects B-Modes in the Cosmic Microwave Background: Mapping Cosmic Structure, Finding Neutrino Masses
NASA Rover Opportunity Views Comet Near Mars
Mars Orbiter Image Shows Comet Nucleus Is Small
Heavy Metal Frost? A New Look at a Venusian Mystery
NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter Watches Comet Fly Near
NASA's MAVEN Studies Passing Comet and Its Effects
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Studies Comet Flyby
- Titan Glowing at Dusk and Dawn
- Two Families of Comets Around Nearby Star
- New Window On the Early Universe
- Mapping Cosmic Structure: Neutrino Masses
- NASA Rover Opportunity Views Comet Near Mars
- Mars Orbiter Image: Comet Nucleus Is Small
- Venusian Mystery: Heavy Metal Frost
- Mars Odyssey Orbiter Watches Comet Fly Near
- MAVEN Studies Passing Comet and Its Effects
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Studies Comet Flyby
Scientists Disprove Theory That Reconstructed Boron Surface Is Metallic
Immersed in Violence: How 3-D Gaming Affects Video Game Players
Physicists Solve Longstanding Puzzle of How Moths Find Distant Mates
Quantum Holograms as Atomic Scale Memory Keepsake
Driving by Pointing: pieDrive System Simplifies Controlling the Most Up-to-Date Vehicles
Recognizing Emotion in Text :-S the Business Benefits :-)
World Record in Data Transmission With Smart Circuits
Supercomputers Link Proteins to Drug Side Effects
1980s American Aircraft Helps Quantum Technology Take Flight
Smartphone Approach for Examining Progression of Diabetic Eye Disease Offers Comparable Results to Traditional Method
- Reconstructed Boron Surface Is Not Metallic
- How 3D Gaming Affects Video Game Players
- How Moths Find Distant Mates: Puzzle Solved
- Quantum Holograms: Atomic Scale Memory Keepsake
- Semi-Driverless System for Piloting Cars
- Emotion in Text :-S the Business Benefits :-)
- World Record in Data Transmission
- Supercomputers Link Proteins to Drug Side Effects
- 1980s Aircraft Helps Quantum Tech Take Flight
- Smartphones to Examine Diabetic Eye Disease
Wild Chimps Use Innovative Strategies to Raid Neighboring Agricultural Fields Undetected
Rescued 'Abandoned' Penguin Chicks Survival Similar to Colony Rates
Shifting Precipitation Patterns Affect Tea Flavor, Health Compounds, Study Shows
Global Consumption an Increasingly Significant Driver of Tropical Deforestation
Sight Neurons Recorded in Jumping Spider Brain
Cause of Aging Remains Elusive, Researchers Assert
Secret Wing Colors Attract Female Fruit Flies
Seaweed Menace May Yield New Medicines
Predicting the Predator Threatening a Squirrel by Analyzing Its Sounds and Tail Movements
Ancient Europeans Intolerant to Lactose for 5,000 Years After They Adopted Agriculture
- Wild Chimps' Nighttime Raiding Activities
- Rescued 'Abandoned' Penguin Chicks
- Shifting Precipitation Patterns Affect Tea Flavor
- Global Consumption: Major Cause of Deforestation
- Sight Neurons Recorded in Jumping Spider Brain
- Cause of Aging Remains Elusive, Researchers Say
- Secret Wing Colors Attract Female Fruit Flies
- Seaweed Menace May Yield New Medicines
- Predators and Squirrel Sounds and Tail Movements
- Europeans Lactose Intolerant First 5,000 Years
Karakoram Glacier Anomaly Resolved, a Cold Case of Climate Science
Two Vessels from WWII Convoy Battle Off North Carolina Discovered: German U-Boat 576 and Freighter Bluefields Found Within 240 Yards
Rising Above the Risk: America's First Tsunami Refuge
'Shrinking Goats' Another Indicator That Climate Change Affects Animal Size
Getting the Salt Out: Electrodialysis Can Provide Cost-Effective Treatment of Salty Water from Fracked Wells
BOFFFFs (Big, Old, Fat, Fertile, Female Fish) Sustain Fisheries
A Global Surge of Great Earthquakes from 2004-2014 and Implications for Cascadia
Built-in Billboards: Male Bluefin Killifish Signal Different Things With Different Fins
Untangling the Biological Effects of Blue Light
New Study Charts the Fate of Chemicals Affecting Health, Environment
- Karakoram Glacier Anomaly Resolved
- Two Vessels from WWII Convoy Battle
- Rising Above Risk: Tsunami Refuge Being Built
- Shrinking Goats: Climate Change and Animal Size
- Desalinating Water from Fracked Wells
- Big, Old, Fat, Fertile, Female Fish in Fisheries
- Global Surge of Great Quakes from 2004-2014
- Male Bluefin Killifish: Each Fin Means Something
- Untangling Biological Effects of Blue Light
- Charting the Fate of Chemicals Affecting Health
Secrets of Dinosaur Ecology Found in Fragile Amber
Protocells and Information Strings: Self-Organizing Autocatalytic Network Created in Computer Model
Mummy Remains Refute Antiquity of Ankylosing Spondylitis
Gene Duplications Associated With Autism Evolved Recently in Human History
Cellular Self-Destruct Program Has Deep Roots Throughout Evolution
Cells' Powerhouses Were Once Energy Parasites: Study Upends Current Theories of How Mitochondria Began
Evidence for Huge Mountains That Fed Early Life Discovered
Digital Archaeology Changes Exploration of the Past
Microfossils Reveal Warm Oceans Had Less Oxygen
Canary for Climate Change: How Past Extinctions Have Influenced Modern Distribution, Population Size of Existing Species
- Secrets of Dinosaur Ecology in Fragile Amber
- Protocells and Information Strings: Virtual Model
- No Signs of Spinal Arthritis in Egyptian Mummies
- Did Autism Evolve Recently in Human History?
- Cellular Self-Destruction Throughout Evolution
- Cells' Mitochondria Were Once Energy Parasites
- Huge Mountains Fed Early Life, Scientists Find
- Digital Archaeology Changes Past Exploration
- Microfossils Reveal Warm Oceans Had Less Oxygen
- How Past Extintions Affected Current Populations
No Increase in Pregnancy-Related Death for African American Women
Fecal Blood Test May Save More Lives Than Colonoscopy
Large Variation in Cesarean Rates Across US Hospitals
In Disease Outbreak Management, Flexibility Can Save Lives, Money
Impressions Shaped by Facial Appearance Foster Biased Decisions
Research Highlights Extent, Effects of School Violence in U.S.
First Driverless Vehicles for Public Launched in Singapore
Controlling Ebola in West Africa Most Effective Way to Decrease International Risk, Expert Says
Three People Infected With Ebola Predicted to Fly from West Africa Every Month If No Exit Screening Takes Place
Massive Debris Pile Reveals Risk of Huge Tsunamis in Hawaii
- US Pregnancy-Related Death: No Racial Difference
- Fecal Blood Test More Effective Than Colonoscopy?
- Far More C-Sections at Certain US Hospitals
- Outbreak Management: Flexibility Can Save Lives
- Impressions Made On Facial Appearance Up Bias
- Extent, Effects of School Violence in U.S.
- First Driverless Vehicles for Public Launched
- Ebola: Control in W. Africa, Minimize Global Risk
- No Exit Screening: Ebola-Infected Travelers
- Huge Tsunamis Have Hit Hawaii in Past
Helping Outdoor Workers Reduce Skin Cancer Risk
Scientists Identify Method of Eradicating Harmful Impacts from Manufacturing Process
Private Telephone Conversations: Dynamic Encryption Keeps Secrets
What Makes a Song Sing? Backup Singers
Job Loss Fears May Boost First-Time Asthma Risk
Burnout Caused by More Than Just Job Stress
Gray Matter Matters When Measuring Risk Tolerance: May Explain Why Risk Tolerance Decreases With Age
Illegal Land Clearing for Commercial Agriculture Responsible for Half of Tropical Deforestation
Working During Depression Can Offer Health Benefits to Employees
There Could Be Increased Numbers of Psychopaths in Senior Managerial Positions, High Levels of Business, Research Shows
- Helping Outdoor Workers Reduce Skin Cancer Risk
- Eradicating Harmful Impacts from Manufacturing
- Dynamic Encryption Keeps Secrets
- What Makes a Song Sing? Backup Singers
- Job Loss Fears May Boost First-Time Asthma Risk
- Burnout Caused by More Than Just Job Stress
- Gray Matter Volume Predicts Risk Tolerance
- Half of Loss of Rainforests for Agriculture
- Working While Depressed: Health Benefits?
- Are There More Psychopaths in Senior Management?
Mental Rest and Reflection Boost Learning, Study Suggests
Myth-Conceptions: How Myths About the Brain Are Hampering Teaching
More Physical Activity Improved School Performance in Swedish Study
Trying to Fool a Kindergartner? Not So Fast
Why Is Educational Achievement Heritable?
Kids' Oral Language Skills Can Predict Future Writing Difficulties
How Curiosity Changes the Brain to Enhance Learning
After-School Exercise Program Enhances Cognition in 7-, 8 And 9-Year-Olds
Secret to Raising Well Behaved Teens? Maximize Their Zzzzz's
False Memories Could Be a Side-Effect of Human Ability to Learn Rules
- Mental Rest and Reflection Boost Learning
- How Myths About the Brain Hamper Teaching
- More Exercise Improves School Performance?
- Trying to Fool a Kindergartner? Not So Fast
- Why Is Educational Achievement Heritable?
- Kids' Oral Skills: Predict Writing Difficulties
- How Curiosity Changes Brain to Enhance Learning
- After-School Exercise Program Enhances Cognition
- Secret to Raising Well Behaved Teens? Sleep
- Good at Learning Rules: Prone to False Memories?