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2013 Continues 37-Year Warm Streak

Yep, global warming is still a thing. The last time it was cold, globally, was in 1976.

Being on the beach helps too.

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You Can Get Placebo Sleep

Simply thinking you got better sleep makes your brain work better

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This Crazy Anemone Hangs Upside Down From the Antarctic Ice Shelf

<i>Edwardsiella andrillae</i> pop their tentacles out to feed

Beautiful, beautiful vaporized dirt.

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Vaporized Dirt Might Be the Mysterious Cause of Ball Lightning

An analysis of one ball's contents found silicon, iron and calcium—the main components of dirt

Not the best place to get diarrhea.

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What Does Space Do To Your Microbiome?

Nobody wants E. coli on a trip to Mars

Halal meat is, usually, free of pork.

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Study Finds that Halal Meat in Iran is Contaminated With Pork

Halal meat is supposed to adhere to strict religious rules, but a new study suggests it isn’t quite so spotless

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How Much Do You Actually Know About What You're Putting in Your Mouth?

A little background in food science can turn you into a next-level foodie

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Two Pints of Water Can Contain the DNA of Thousands of Fish

Two pints of water from a 1.2 million gallon tank were all that was needed to identify 13,000 fish

People bake in the heat at this year's Australian Open.

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It’s So Hot They Had to Suspend the Australian Open Because Players Were Passing Out

Australia is getting hotter, creating dangerous conditions for everyone

A couple extra calories isn't going to kill you.

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Diet Soda Makes Breathalyzers Think You’re Drunk

Maybe because you are

A New Way to Find Out If Your Chocolate Is Legit

You no longer have to be expert chocolate-taster to tell whether your cacao beans are as fancy as advertised

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Do Babies Fake Cry?

Babies can be evil little creatures: they can even fake cry

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We’ve Got 1.5 Billion Years Left With a Habitable Earth

And then we need to get off this rock

Part of the primary mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope. Imagine this, but... more.

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No One Trusts Geoengineering—But Pretty Soon It's Not Going To Be a Choice

We're very quickly running out of time to deal with rising carbon emissions

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How Scientists Recorded the Music Inside One Woman's Head

A patient was hallucinating musical scores, and researchers have managed to record it

A locust swarm in Israel.

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Grasshopper Gut Parasites Could Stop Ruinous Locust Swarms

The microbes confuse the chemical signals that tell pestilent locusts: swarm!

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We Burn Just Half the Calories Other Mammals Do

Our slow metabolism helps explain why it takes us so long to grow up—and why we live such long lives

In addition to its limb-like front fins, Tiktaalik had large, mobile rear fins that it used to push itself around in the water.

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Ancient Walking Fish May Have Walked on All Fours

A fossilized pelvis shows the fish had functioning rear “legs”

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One More Point for Coffee: It Might Boost Memory-Making Abilities

Research indicates that two cups of caffeine-laced coffee might enhance your ability to remember certain details

A black rhino in Tanzania.

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A Permit to Hunt a Critically Endangered Black Rhino Just Sold for $350,000

Proceeds will supposedly go toward conservation of the species

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