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It's flu season again, but this year the bug going around isn't just your average illness
For just the second time in forty years, not a single player was inducted this year. Not Barry Bonds, not Roger Clemes, not Sammy Sosa—nobody
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How much damage does head butting really do?
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A new cancer-causing virus is affecting U.S. raccoons
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Low water levels in Lake Michigan could cause the Chicago River to start flowing the other way
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Above, you can see signature of Jacob J. Lew, reportedly the top candidate to be the country’s new Treasury secretary. This scribble—a slinky? a bit of fuzz? a doodle of a caterpillar?—may be printed on every single new dollar bill. The signature is causing no shortage of judgment from media outlets like The New York Times [...]
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The world may be at the brink of an epidemic of drug-resistent gonorrhea, though simply using condoms could save the day
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The 2023 move, by the way, is permanent
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Across Australia wildfires are raging. And yes, there is a climate connection
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The synthetic feces is less icky than the natural variety and is a "super probiotic," aptly named RePOOPulate
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Rather than face forced labor, some ancient Egyptians gave up their futures and their coin to become temple servants
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Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old
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It's a criminal strategy that comes with low risks and high rewards.
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If you've ever been on a dark country road, you know how hard it can be to see just where the asphalt ends and the rest of the world begins. Well, in the Netherlands, they've proposed a clever solution: glow in the dark road paint
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Humanity is well on its way to screwing up Antarctic and the Southern Ocean in addition to the warmer corners of the world
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A new estimate says there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
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Some Android phones have barometers, and scientists want to use your observations to predict the weather
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The squid is about 10-feet long and was spotted over half a mile below the ocean surface about 620 miles south of Tokyo
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Haven't you always wanted to own a launch pad?
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The Quadrantid shower is already behind us, and star gazers will have to wait until April (the start of meteor shower season) for the next big show
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