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Physicists Use Ytterbium Ions to Make March Madness Picks

Even knowledgable fans aren't great at making predictions, so quantum physics may be the surest way to cash in on the madness

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People in Israel Really Are Eating Swarming Locusts

While there are simply too many locusts to eat the swarm out of existence, Israelis who do tuck in can enjoy a healthy, kosher snack

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Robots Get Their Own Internet

Robot-only internet! Self-teaching robots!

Death Club for Hipsters Wants to Change the Way You See Dying

Called the Order of the Good Death, the club is full of artists, writers, film makers, musicians and other creative types

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Problem Solved: The Egg Came First

Time to find a new brain teaser - the chicken and egg question has been solved. The egg wins

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Pediatricians Back Gay Marriage

The American Academy of Pediatrics says that allowing a child's parents to marry is good for kids

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When You Work Out to Music, Your Whole Body Syncs Up to Its Rhythm

But why do we require music to work out? And what kind of music is best?

Workers clean the salvaged F-1 engine

An Apollo Rocket Engine Was Just Saved from the Bottom of the Atlantic

These booster rockets sent Apollo astronauts blasting to the Moon

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Scientists Are Making All Sorts of New Drugs From Animal Venom

Several venom-derived drugs are already approved on the market and scientists are working on what they think are many more to come

It’s Not Just You: Garfield Is Not Meant to Be Funny

Unlike New Yorker cartoons, in which, you are actually missing the joke, Garfield is in fact not even designed to be funny

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Why Some People Faint When They See Blood

In an evolutionary throwback, people with a blood phobia first experience a racing heart and then a sudden drop in blood pressure

How Does One Actually Shrink a Head?

How does one take a regular sized human skull and miniaturize it?

This cicada is part of Brood XIX, a 13-year recurrent swarm from the southern US.

After 17 Years, the Northeast Is About to Be Blanketed by a Swarm of Cicadas

An inch and a half long with bright red eyes, the swarm of Brood II cicadas is coming

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From the Big Bang to the End of the Earth and Everything in Between, the Two Minute History of America

A fun video by a Minnesota high school student tries to capture all of human history in just two minutes

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Should You Trust Nate Silver’s March Madness Bracket?

Everybody's favorite predictor of the future - Nate Silver - has his own analysis of the tournament over at the New York Times

Part of a whale backbone on the ocean floor

‘Bone-Eating Zombie Worm’ And Eight Other New Species Live on the First Whale Skeleton Found in Antarctica

The Minke whale skeleton was probably on the seafloor for at least several decades and is only the sixth natural whale carcass ever found

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The Science of Internet Virality: Awe and Joy All the Way Down

Cats and babies and corgis? Or something more.

Ecotourists Have Changed Stingrays’ Behavior—And Not for the Better

There might be a dark side to the so-called "interactive ecotourism" business

Hundreds of Emaciated Stranded Sea Lion Pups Are Washing Ashore in California

No one knows what is causing the unprecedented strandings, and the number of pups in need of help is only increasing

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Would You Give up an Ovary for the Ability to Fly? Birds Might Have

For the ability to fly, birds might have ditched on of their ovaries to cut down on their weight

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