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Women Who Score Well on Both Math And Verbal Tests Still Don’t Choose Science Careers

This may be because women have some many career options these days, researchers write, or maybe it’s just sexism

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?

Various iterations of the Müller-Lyer Illusion. For most people reading this, the bottom lines will seem longer than the top, despite being the same length.

Are Optical Illusions Cultural?

People from around the world respond to optical illusions different. But why?

For Truck Drivers, Coffee May Save Lives

Drivers who drank caffeine-laden beverages were 63 percent less likely to crash than those who did not - even if they were more sleep deprived

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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People Can Accurately Read Dogs’ Facial Expressions

Interestingly, people who do not own dogs were a bit better at accurately labeling canine emotions than people who do own dogs

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Earthquakes Are Basically Gold Factories

In the cracks between tectonic plates, veins of gold appear

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Scientists Build a Phaser, a New Kind of Sound-Laser

A laser that shoots sound, a Star Trek fantasy that’s nearly within reach

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

Cats and babies and corgis? Or something more.

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