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The Science of How to Survive a Bear Attack

If a bear is coming for you, what should you do? Play dead? Fight back? Climb a tree? Science has the answer

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Visit the Bottom of the Ocean with this Deep-Sea Submarine’s Live Stream

A live stream video from the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents will be a glimpse into a world of strange creatures and volcanic activity

Home-Field Advantage Is Real, and Here’s Why

Theories about home-field advantage include the crowd, travel, familiarity with the stadium and referee bias

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Philippines Trying to Decide Whether to Burn, Crush or Donate $10 Million Worth of Ivory

The 5 tons of tusks are scheduled to be crushed by road rollers on June 21

Facebook Helped Kick Off a 20-Fold Registration Spike for Desperately Needed Organ Donors

Last May, Facebook began allowing users to post their organ donor status on their profile timelines

Alternative Medicine Is a $34 Billion Industry, But Only One-Third of the Treatments Have Been Tested

The traditional medicine industry is just as profit-driven as any other

Bullies are Now Using Their Victims’ Allergies Against Them

Nearly one in three kids with food allergies has been bullied because of it, often with the food they're allergic to

A New 3D Map of the Universe Covers More Than 100 Million Light-Years

The map makes infinity seem comprehensible by depicting the structures of galaxy clusters, dark matter and open patches of lonely space

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Working In a Creative Field? Despite What You May Think, Coffee Is Not Your Best Friend

By focusing your mind, caffeine may actually stand in the way of your creativity

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Where Did the Phrase “Hubba Hubba” Come From?

Where did this odd little set of sounds come from, and how did it become associated with pretty ladies?

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That “Old Book Smell” Is a Mix of Grass and Vanilla

Smell is chemistry, and the chemistry of old books gives your cherished tomes their scent

Unless You Like Toxic Chemicals, Skip This Chinese Delicacy

Thirty Chinese preserved egg companies are being shut down for using toxic chemicals to expedite the egg-festering process

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No, Legalizing Rhino Horn Probably Won’t Save Animals from Poaching

Legalizing trade didn't deter poachers from killing more tigers and elephants, and it won't help the rhinos, either

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Where Would You Put a 51st Star on the U.S. Flag?

If you wanted to make a 51-star American flag, or a 76-star American flag, how would you arrange the stars?

Can We Blame Men for Menopause?

It's hard to see how a genetic predisposition to sterility would be helpful

A tar sands mine in Alberta

2.5 Million Gallons of Toxic Waste Just Spilled in Alberta

Both Alberta and the company responsible, Apache Corp, held off for more than a week on publicly disclosing the information about the spill

The RoboRoach

Cyborg Cockroaches May Become New Teaching Tools in Neuroscience Classes

Roach neurons aren't that different than human neurons, making the RoboRoach a learning tool for all sorts of basic principles of neuroscience

New At-Home Test Could Tell Women If Their Pregnancy Has Terminated

Women who both do and do not want to be pregnant could benefit from the new test

When the Union Ran Out of Ironclads, They Built Timberclads

A curious photograph caught one library specialist at the Library of Congress by surprise: a wooden ironclad

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On Venus It Snows Metal

To add to the list of crazy things about space, is this fact: on Venus, it snows metal

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