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The Mosquitoes that are Fighting Dengue and Zika
While killing insects would seem to be the best way of controlling the diseases they spread, some scientists are releasing more of the biting bug, re-engineered to stall epidemics.
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A woman put 50m stolen articles online so you can read them for free
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. Elbakyan has kept herself beyond the reach of a federal judge who late last year issued an injunction against her site, noting that damages could total $150,000 per article...
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Chinese Space Station, or Pieces of it, will Fall to Earth in March — Somewhere
Sometime in March, a streak of fire will cross the sky as the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 falls out of orbit. But where it will fall, or how much of it will fall, nobody quite knows.
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The World’s Most Metal Bird Makes Darkness Out of Chaos
The highly modified feathers of a male bird of paradise absorb 99.95 percent of light, creating an astonishingly dark black.
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A 3D journey through the Orion Nebula
Astronomers and visualization specialists at NASA have just released this unprecedented, 3-dimensional, fly-through view of the Orion Nebula, a nearby star-forming region.
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Chinese 'Rainbow Dinosaur' had Iridescent Feathers like Hummingbirds
There's not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There's an iridescent dinosaur.
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Suspected Meteor Shakes Houses across Metro Detroit
Thunderous boom shakes homes across metro Detroit
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World's Biggest Underwater Cave Found in Mexico
A group of divers has found a connection between two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to be the biggest flooded cave on the planet, a discovery that could help shed new light on the ancient Maya civilization.
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Why 'Bird-Brained' may not be such an insult after all
Birds show remarkable levels of intelligence, something that may have given them the edge following the K-T extinction event
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How a 5-Ounce Bird Stores 10,000 Maps in its Head
If you’ve ever lost your car in the parking lot, this bird will put you to shame.
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Trapped on an Island With Wolves, the Only Way Out for These Caribou Was Up
Nine caribou on an island in Lake Superior were helicoptered to safety in a bid to save a once thriving herd from dying out.
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A Wet and Warm Spring, Then 200,000 Dead Saigas
Scientists identified bacteria that caused a mass die-off of the endangered antelopes in Kazakhstan in 2015. But the mechanism that made the bacteria so deadly is not understood.
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In the Arctic, More Rain May Mean Fewer Musk Oxen
Winter rain makes it more difficult for the animals to feed, particularly pregnant females, researchers find.
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They Hunt. They Gather. They’re Very Good at Talking About Smells.
A study of hunter-gatherers on the Malay Peninsula suggests that culture plays a role in how we describe the odors all around us.
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Meet the Terror Bird, a Bone-Smashing Beast That Once Roamed the Americas
The prehistoric avians weren't able to fly, but they were able to kill.
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NASA Probe makes History by Snapping the most Distant Photos taken Away from Earth
Breaking Voyager 1’s record
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'Loneliest tree' records human epoch
A remote spruce planted on a Southern Ocean island holds a defining record of humans, scientists argue.
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Greenland is Melting
The front lines of climate change run through the rapidly warming Arctic. The changes taking place on this faraway, frozen island will be felt much closer to home, wherever you live. From the top of the world, meet the scientists looking for clues of what to expect from a warming world.
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Uranus smells like farts, astronomers have confirmed — which could indicate there was 'a big shakeup' early in the solar system
Scientists had suspected that Uranus had clouds of hydrogen sulfide, a compound that smells like rotten eggs and farts. But they couldn't be certain until now.
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What Weed and Cocaine Do to Memory
"Your memory is really your identity. Your own history, your own desires, your own fears.”
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