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Scientists Figure Out Why Mozzarella Is the Perfect Pizza Cheese

It's all about the elasticity, moisture and oil content

The Congo River still plays a major transport role between the major cities of Kinshasa and Kisangani

New Research

Why Kinshasa in the 1920s Was the Perfect Place for HIV to Go Global

Railways, a booming population and many sex workers created ideal conditions for the virus to spread

Space shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless floats in space

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How the Isolation of Space Messes with Your Mind

Long-term missions must deal with hallucinations, boredom and the silent treatment between crew members

For the time being, at least, the lands near the Grand Canyon will not be converted into something resembling this uranium mine in New Mexico.

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The Grand Canyon Will Not Be Mined for Uranium

Uranium mining will be banned for the next 20 years on nearly 1 million acres of land near the Grand Canyon

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The Park Service Wants to Cull 900 of Yellowstone's 4,900 Buffalo

The Park Service will be killing bison that stray from the park

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Many of the Same Brain Regions Are Activated When Mothers Look at Their Pets or Their Children

It seems that maternal attachment does not discriminate between species

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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2014 Nobel Prizes

Just enough to catch up

A herd of wild ass runs across the Tibetan plateau in Qinghai

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The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors

The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes

A bowhead whale breaches

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Whaler Makes History as the First Female in Her Community to Harpoon a Whale

The 31-year old struck the whale near the end of the fall season for Alaska's bowhead subsistence hunters

A new gravity map shows the details of the sea floor

New Research

Satellite Observations Revealed Thousands of New Mountains Right Here on Earth

There are thousands of mountains dotting the sea floor

Don't do this.

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What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?

A lifetime of chronic health issues

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Could Climate Change Affect the Number of Boys and Girls Born?

Whether boy babies outnumber girl babies could be influenced by war, temperature and other stress factors

As many as 240,000 children were infected with HIV last year.

New Research

A Second Baby Thought Cured of HIV Relapsed When Taken Off Antiviral Drugs

Antiretroviral drugs can control, but not cure, HIV in children

A protester holds the cut off nose of the statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin after it was toppled during a rally on the central square of eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 28 September 2014.

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Ukrainian Protesters Are Auctioning Off the Nose of a Massive Lenin Statue

Lenin's ears are also, reportedly, up for grabs

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One Human Year Does Not Equal Seven Dog Years

No one knows where the dog years myth came from, but experts agree that it's simply not true

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The Only Primate With a Toxic Bite Might Have Evolved to Mimic Cobras

Slow lorises have snake-like markings, postures and a hiss that all resemble the speckled cobra

Cheetahs taking it easy in the Kalahari desert, Botswana.

New Research

Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around

When human presence forces cheetahs to expend more energy, however, it put the animals' survival at risk

Jitterbugging in a juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939

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See Depression-Era Photos from Your Hometown

Thousands of images collected to document rural life from 1934 to 1944 are available to peruse online through an interactive project

Fortunately the lava cooled before we got there.

New Research

The Man in the Moon Was Made By Radioactivity, Not Meteors

Differential cooling caused by radioactive material in the crust caused one of the Moon's most distinctive features

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How the Humble Hydra Lives, As Far as We Know, Forever

Hydra don't seem to die of old age. But why?

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