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Confirmed: New phase of matter is solid and liquid at the same time
The mind-bending material would be like a sponge made of water that's leaking water.
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The Science of Addictive Food
How the food industry manipulates ingredients to keep us buying more and eating so much we blow up like balloons.
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Brush your teeth -- postpone Alzheimer's
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have discovered a clear connection between oral health and Alzheimer´s disease.
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Spider glue's sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
The glue that gives spider webs their stickiness is a form of spider silk protein. Researchers can imagine cool uses for a synthetic version – but had to wait for the tricky glue gene to be sequenced.
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Reversible superglue proves strong enough to hold average man
Snail slime-like substance appears to solve problem of weak and reversible or strong and irreversible adhesive
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Scientists Find First Evidence of Humans Cooking Starches
More than 100 millennia ago, people were roasting tubers over the fire, a culinary practice that fueled their bodies and may have aided their migrations.
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How Do We Solve the Problem of Predators?
Wolves pose a uniquely difficult conservation issue.
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Teens ‘Mocked’ by Parents at Greater Risk for Bullying, Victimization
A unique longitudinal study provides a more complete understanding of how parents’ belittling and critical interactions with adolescents thwart their ability to maintain positive relationships with peers.
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Doctors altered a person's genes with CRISPR for the first time in the U.S. Here's what could be next.
Last week, a young woman with sickle cell anemia became the first person in the United States to have her cells altered with CRISPR gene editing technology. Here's what that means for the future treatment of genetic diseases.
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Team behind world's first black hole image wins 'Oscar of science'
The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world's first image of a black hole were honored Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning $3 million dollars for what is known as the "Oscars of science."
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A Boy Ate Only Chips And French Fries For 10 Years. This Is What Happened To His Eyes.
This case is based on publication in literature by Harrison R, Warburton V, Lux A, Atan D. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Sep 3.
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Human bodies can move on their own after death, study finds
Dead bodies move on their own after death — likely due to processes of decomposition, researchers suspect, pointing to implications for forensic science.
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Frédéric Leroy: meat's become a scapegoat for vegans, politicians & the media because of bad science
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Why are big storms bringing so much more rain? Warming, yes, but also winds
For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States. A new analysis by Princeton researchers explains why this trend is likely to continue with global warming: Both the higher moisture content of warmer air and storms’ increasing wind speeds conspire to produce wetter storms.
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Homo erectus’ last known appearance dates to roughly 117,000 years ago
New evidence helps resolve a debate over how long ago Home erectus survived in what’s now Indonesia, a study finds.
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Neanderthals 'dived in the ocean' for shellfish
Until now, there's been little evidence our evolutionary relatives could swim.
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7 Billion-Year-Old Stardust Is Oldest Material Found on Earth
Some of these ancient grains are billions of years older than our sun.
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What happens if you have no word for 'dinosaur'
English is the world’s dominant scientific language, yet it has no word for the distinctive smell of cockroaches. What happens though, if you have no words for basic scientific terms?
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'Ghost' population of humans discovered in ancient Africa
This is the first time researchers have done an in-depth analysis of ancient DNA from western Central Africa.
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Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates
Soil’s earthy smell comes from chemicals produced by bacteria called Streptomyces, which use the odour to attract springtails to help disperse their spores
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