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8 years ago+5 5 0Americans are worried about climate change but, paradoxically, aren't talking about it (and this doesn't help at all)
When everyone is silent, nothing gets done.
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8 years ago+18 18 0How evolution has equipped our hands with five fingers
Have you ever wondered why our hands have exactly five fingers? Scientists have uncovered a part of this mystery, and their remarkable discovery is outlined in a new report.
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8 years agoAnalysis+17 17 0Yes, NASA has cinematographers. Here’s what they shoot.
Nasreen Alkhateeb explains what it’s like to have a fine arts background at the agency.
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8 years ago0 1 1Aerial survey shows the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' is much larger than we thought
In case you didn't know, there's a huge garbage patch floating around in the Pacific.
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8 years ago+4 4 0The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to trio of molecular machine pioneers
Tiny gears to start a huge revolution.
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8 years ago+4 4 0The safest locks might be those encrypted by passwords transmitted through the body
Your body is the key now.
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8 years ago+34 34 0 x 2Dolphins deserve same rights as humans, say scientists - BBC News
Dolphins should be treated as non-human "persons" and their rights to life and liberty respected, the world's biggest science meeting is told.
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8 years ago+11 11 0Verily's wearable microscope sees beneath your skin
It tracks biomarkers to detect cancers and monitor drug delivery.
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8 years ago+20 20 0Dexmo exoskeleton combines Virtual reality with haptic force feedback
The Dexmo exoskeleton allows its wearer to touch, grasp, and feel virtual objects as if they were real. A virtual baseball feels firm in the hand, an egg fragile. Pick up a digital rubber duck while wearing the Dexmo, and it can be squished pleasingl ...
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8 years agoCurrent Event+24 24 0Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi for work on ‘cell recycling’
Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for discovering and elucidating a key mechanism in our body's defense system that involves degrading and recycling parts of cells. Known as autophagy, thi ...
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8 years ago+6 6 0World's deepest underwater cave discovered in Czech Republic -- explorers still haven't reached the bottom
It's so deep explorers had to use a submersible robot to map the cave. The rope wasn't long enough, though.