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Elementary students perform better when walls are left relatively bare
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Obesity rates are rising across the board
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Zebras travel twice as far as North America's migratory champion, the mule deer
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Researchers discovered the images by digitally enhancing photos of the temple's walls
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The latest innovation in spaceflight: new rodent enclosures
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Detroit's Blight Removal Task Force is urging the city to tear down thousands of vacant buildings
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Evolution may have traded muscle mass for big brains
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In the absence of a mother, gay men's brains become blind to gender and step up to the full task of parenthood
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The beloved show "Reading Rainbow" is seeking funding to expand to the web
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Maya Angelou was poet, novelist, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker, dancer and civil rights activist
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Scientists are using modern technology to check whether Julius Caesar's accounting of Roman history was accurate
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In an experiment, mother pigs' gene expression changed depending on the sperm type they were fertilized wtih
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York has come up with a new tourism stunt: smell like a Viking
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A 1974 nature video shows a spiny anteater hatching
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Twitter is opening up their entire archives to researchers
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Americans respond differently to the same scientific concept depending on the terminology being used
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Ukraine's military pushed to clear pro-Russian rebels out of the eastern provinces
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Coffee beans make different noises depending on how toasted they are
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What expert? This autism screening software works just as well.
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Your stomach can be scared... and not just of being empty
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