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What Happened to ‘Self-Harm Blogs’ After Tumblr Banned Them?
Censoring had no impact on the number of eating disorder inspired blogs, but it did change the makeup of those blogs
Tatooine Is About To Be Reclaimed by the Desert
The Star Wars set is about to be buried, but in the mean time it's helping scientists do real research
Stress Is the Secret Ingredient That Makes Booze And Cigarettes a Perfect Match
Nicotine interferes with alcohol's ability to produce a surge of pleasurable, stress-reducing dopamine in our brain, increasing our desire to keep drinking
A New Surgical Knife Identifies Cancerous Tissue As Doctors Are Cutting It Out
The knife cauterizes tissue and then analyzes the smoke produced by the burning flesh using mass spectrometry
Alzheimer’s Patients Often Self-Diagnose Years Before Doctors Do
In a study of 200 older people, researchers found that those who reported the most memory problems had the highest levels of beta amyloid in their brain
Some Dinosaurs Grew New Teeth Every Couple of Months
Sauropods were the largest animals ever to live and their constantly replaced teeth helped them avoid wear from the greens they constantly munched on
Newly Discovered Utah Dinosaur Looks Like a Cross Between a Triceratops and a Steer
Scientists have just described Nasutoceratops titusi, a new species of dinosaur whose Latin name means large-nosed horned face
Archaeologists Find an Unusual Victim of Human Sacrifice in Peru
The young woman was either poisoned or strangled with a cord, then dumped into a pit
How Does Bacteria Get Into Your House?
You only have yourself to blame.
Large, Distant Earthquakes May Cause Smaller Quakes at U.S. Drilling Sites
In a paper in Science, researchers think they may have found a reason for the uptick—water being injected deep into the earth.
Weird Blips Randomly Change the Length of Earth’s Days for Months on End
Three times in the past decade the length of the day has jumped
Scientists Just Measured the True Color of a Far-Off Planet
For the first time, scientists have measured the color of a far off planet
For the First Time, NASA Took a Photo of the Sun’s Tail
Stretched by the interstellar medium, the Sun's tail stretches far behind us
When the Sun Gets Violent, It Shoots Antimatter at the Earth
When it casts a solar flare, the Sun also launches antimatter
Ancient Dinosaur Birds Were Infected With Hepatitis B
82 million years ago hepatitis B infected birds
Bystanders Intervene in One-Third of Bar Room Brawls
If you're at a bar and somebody starts a fight, what do you do? Root them on? Step in? Join the fight?
These New Windows Let the Summer Breeze In, But Block the Street Noise
A window speckled with little holes will let the air through, but not the sound
Thousands of Species Found in a Lake Cut Off From the World for Millions of Years
Cut off for maybe as much as 15 million years, Antarctica's Lake Vostok seems to be full of life
People Who Subconsciously Dwell on Death Write Funnier New Yorker Cartoon Captions
People who are deliberately thinking about death, on the other hand, produce the least funny cartoon captions
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