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Scientists Are Pretty Sure Survivors Can’t Transmit Ebola Sexually

Research suggests Ebola survivors aren’t infectious, but scientists aren’t ruling it out

October 31, 2014

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Your Reaction to “Gross” Pictures Can Betray Your Political Beliefs

Liberal and conservative brains show different activity patterns when they look at pictures of things typically thought of as disgusting

October 31, 2014

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Someone Just Bought an Entire Connecticut Ghost Town for $1.2 Million

Johnsonville was once a 62-acre mill village

October 31, 2014

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Australia’s Koalas Have Chlamydia, But a New Vaccine Could Save Them

The sexually transmitted disease threatens the health of one of Australia’s iconic marsupials

October 31, 2014

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This Newly Forming Planet Will Have Three Suns

A triple-star system has two disks of gas and dust that could form planets

October 31, 2014

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Why Doctors Still Don’t Know What’s Causing a Paralysis-Inducing Illness in Children

More children are showing up with limb flaccidness than health officials would expect, but the illness remains rare and mysterious

October 30, 2014

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Scientists Who Traveled to Ebola-Infected Countries Are Being Asked to Skip a Big Tropical Medicine Meeting

Researchers from the frontline of the fight against Ebola must cancel their plans to attend an upcoming conference in New Orleans

October 30, 2014

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Researchers Grew Miniature Human Stomachs from Stem Cells

The tiny lab dish-dwelling organs will help researchers monitor the progression of disease and test new drugs

October 30, 2014

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Pat Yourself on the Back, America: The U.S. Is Not Freaking Out About Ebola (For the Most Part)

Poll numbers show most Americans aren’t succumbing to the fear over Ebola

October 30, 2014

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The European Space Agency Has Made the Weirdest Short Film

The ESA’s advertising Rosetta with a very unusual sci-fi short

October 30, 2014

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Aircraft Hunters Think They’ve Found a Scrap of Amelia Earhart’s Plane

This isn’t the first time a seemingly game-changing piece of evidence about Earhart’s disappearance has arisen, however

October 30, 2014

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Rainbows Don’t Include Purple Light, So Why Do They Sometimes Seem To?

Supernumerary rings, supernumerary rings, supernummrings

October 30, 2014

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Artists In Search of Inspiration Can Now Find Their Muse On a Cargo Ship

Container ships now join Amtrak trains, dune shacks and remote islands in the Arctic circle as sights dedicated to artistic pursuit

October 30, 2014

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A Couple’s First Two Kids Make Them Briefly Happier; the Third Not So Much

Older couples get the most joy from their new addition to the family, teens the least

October 29, 2014

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This Headline Is Trying to Manipulate You, And It’s Working

Bad headlines stick with you, even if you read the story

October 29, 2014

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Google Is Working on a Pill That Can Figure Out What Ails You

Microscopic particles will spy on the cells of your body and look for any disease, including cancer

October 29, 2014

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Giant Tortoises Have Made a Comeback From 15 to 1,000

Española giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Galapagos National Park and are breeding on their own

October 29, 2014

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You’ll Soon Be Able to Talk to London And Manchester’s Statues

Just scan a tag near the statues with your cell, and they’ll call you with a quick first-person history lesson

October 29, 2014

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Ancient Easter Islanders Likely Sailed Back And Forth to South America

The 4,600-mile roundtrip couldn’t have been easy—even for people who had already migrated from Polynesia in wooden outrigger canoes

October 29, 2014

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The Antares Rocket Explosion Wasn’t Orbital Sciences’ First Big Malfunction

Orbital Sciences has lost some of NASA’s gear before, because going to space is really, really hard

October 28, 2014