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No one, not even the experts, really knows what's about to happen
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Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a microscope as with a paint brush
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A new study shows that right-handed and left-handed people make different choices
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Bad news for coffee drinkers: It turns out that those cheap coffee pots found in offices are one of the biggest energy hogs in the modern workplace
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The things we do to animals for the LOLs might not be as innocuous as they seem
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Scientists are all atwitter over Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons and one of the most likely places in our solar system to harbor life
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Images of the evacuated area around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant offer a glimpse at a world without humans
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Sharks may have the healthiest teeth in the animal kingdom
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A live webcam let's you watch Alaskan brown bears hunt salmon during the fishes' annual migration
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After a lifetime of servitude to the colony, older termites sacrifice the only thing they have left: their lives
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Science confirms what you've always suspected: music these days is worse than it used to be
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Wrinkles make it difficult for younger people to read the facial expressions of those older than them
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Statistics could help predict just how fast athletes will run and swim at this summer's Olympics
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Research shows that despite the fact that women live longer on average, their brains age faster. Scientists are pointing to stress as the possible culprit.
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Amidst the turmoil of an ongoing civil war, Syrian President al-Assad has been threatening to use chemical weapons if faced with international intervention
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Some Danes are taking to the dirt like Tolkien's hobbits. Their own Shire-like eco-village is a model of sustainability, and one of the oldest of its kind
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On this day 34 years ago, Louise Brown, the first "test tube baby," was welcomed into the world
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Flies now join likes of Romeo and Juliet, and Tristan and Isolde, determined but doomed lovers who would do anything - including die - for love
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Companies are experimenting with rubber alternatives, turning to things like dandelions and soybeans to build their wheels
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