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Can your smartphone reveal if you are likely to commit moral or immoral acts?
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A seldom seen virus that is part of the same family as poliovirus has been afflicting primarily children this summer and is spreading into more and more U.S. states.
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Psychologists use the term “flashbulb memories” to describe our powerful recollections of unexpected and especially emotional events, like 9/11 or the assassination of JFK. What are your such memories?
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We might be thinking James Bond, but the truth is we’ve been wearing technology for thousands of years: armor, eyeglasses and contact lenses, SCUBA gear, and prosthetics are all examples of wearable technologies.
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Guess what percentage of motor vehicle crashes is due to human error. 50 percent? 60 percent? Higher.
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This blog post is currently the most popular story on SA.com. Can you guess why the versions made after 1982 are dangerous?
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It's not to know when to go for a quaffle in Quidditch.
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SciArt Destinations: The Paleolithic Caves of Cantabria, Spain
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In 2006, four men broke into a lab looking for the painkiller OxyContin. But instead, they stole oxytocin, the hormone involved in lactation and emotional bonding. We don't know if the hormone made the men want to cuddle, which may not be the best feeling to have in prison. But it turns out that oxytocin drives some negative emotions, too.
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It could be a showdown between rockets and ridleys at Boca Chica, in southern Texas--or can they coexist?
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Induced labor has doubled between 1990 and 2010, to about 23 percent of all births. Has that increase led to more C-sections?
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Our second most popular story last week: the new "Dreadnought" dinosaur--the most complete specimen of a giant found so far. Here's a size comparison; white areas indicate recovered fossil bones. Image courtesy of the Lacovara Lab at Drexel University.
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Experimental drugs continue to be tested, but this method may be the best way to treat infected people.
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Glowing, tubular open ocean pyrosomes seem about as alien as it's possible to get. Yet the larvae of the tunicates -- the group they belong to -- has a piece of anatomy that betrays a close relationship to us.
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You know what almost happened to Marty McFly. This has been the top story this past week on SA.com.
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During the July 4th weekend of 1994, while riding in a 1988 Chevy Blazer with his wife at the wheel, a computer engineer named Jeff Bezos laid the groundwork for a retail revolution...
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New dino weighed in at 65 tons -- and it was only a teenager.
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Will direct brain stimulation be used to condition soldiers to kill without conscience?
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The effort to cure Hep C was long, arduous, and costly. Now who will pay for it?
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The case for more data about performance in schools.
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We've finally figured out a way to supersize the Milky WAy.
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Comb jelly?
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The case for metrics in the classroom.
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Why not include males and females in every study? Because it would be a huge waste of resources.
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Our own Clara Moskowitz writes from a women in physics conference.
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"This summer the insurgent group ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Mosul—and along with it, three army divisions’ worth of U.S.-supplied equipment..."
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