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Notoriously Durable Styrofoam Could Be Munched by Mealworms
Microbes in the beetle larvae’s guts help break down polystyrene
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Here’s What Whale Songs Look Like as Sheet Music
Musical notation created by a musician and a designer make whale song look almost like an alien language
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Scientists Can Now Sequence a Human’s Genome in 26 Hours
New tools cut sequencing time almost in half
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Why Scientists Are Gathering Seeds From Roadside Sunflowers
Climate changes threatens commercial sunflower production, where plants are grown for their oil
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It Will Take Nine Years to Clean the Taj Majal
“Mudpack therapy” will help the iconic monument clean up its act
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Japanese Universities Are Shuttering Social Sciences and Humanities Departments
Just how valuable is that degree in literature?
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If You Die in This Video Game, You Can Never Play Again
How do people play when dead means dead?
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The Oakland A’s Hire the First Woman to Coach Major League Baseball
Justine Siegal will be a guest instructor for the team
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American Women in the 1900s Called Street Harassers ‘Mashers’ and Stabbed Them With Hatpins
These are the turn-of-the-century women who fought back when men tried to grab them
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An Oregon Brewery Is the First Ever to Go “Salmon-Safe”
Hopsworks Urban Brewery is the first in the United States to be certified Salmon-Safe
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What Fingerprints Can Reveal About Ancestry
Clues as to whether people have European or African lineage may show up in the fine details of their fingers
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How Helen Keller Experienced Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
“I could actually distinguish the cornets, the roll of the drums, deep-toned violas and violins singing in exquisite unison”
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The Secret to Better Biofuels May Lie in Panda Poop
Microbes in the panda’s guts might help make biofuels cheaper
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Researchers Devise Way to Determine Color from Fossils
Researchers now know how to tell what color an ancient animal was from its fossils
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Scientists Just Found a Sea Turtle That Glows
The turtle is the first biofluorescent reptile ever found in the wild
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Yet Another Highly-Venomous Snake Discovered in Australia
The Kimberley death adder is one of the most venomous snakes in the world
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Climate Change Is Turning 500-Year Floods Into 24-Year Ones
Rising sea levels and an increase in large storms will continue to threaten the Atlantic coast
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