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Twelve volunteers were supposed to one whole GMO banana each — but so far they have eat zero
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What’s the Best Place to Live? It May Depend on Your Personality
Why you’ll thrive in some neighborhoods (and feel miserable in others)
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One Orangutan Has Learned to Sound Just Like Us
This defies scientists’ former assumption that great apes just couldn’t learn new calls
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Listen to Newly Discovered Bowhead Whale Songs
Bowhead songs have been elusive, but researchers managed to record 12 unique songs using hydrophones
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Some Bat Colonies Might Be Beating White-Nose Syndrome
A few recent discovering on the strange fungus wiping out North American bat colonies give reason to hope
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Some Microbes Can Eat And Breathe Electricity
How many ways can life exist? Some recently discovered microbes can live on a cathode, apparently without the need for a carbon food-source
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Your Computer Knows You Better Than Your Mom
Why machines can predict your personality more accurately than your family or friends
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Ancient Dogs Likely Arrived in America Thousands of Years After Humans
New research on dog DNA shows that they migrated to the new world much later than initially thought
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Separate People From Their Phones, And They Perform Less Well
Here’s what happens when you’re parted from your smartphone
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Planes Fly Too Fast for Birds to Dodge
New research shows that birds are not adept at avoiding obstacles at such high speeds
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A Museum’s Butterfly Emerged Half Male, Half Female
The rarity is like a natural experiment that tells scientists how genes and hormones interact to produce different sexes
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U.S. Air Force Builds New Radar for Space Junk
It’s called Space Fence and should help us track the estimated 500,000 pieces of debris that orbit Earth
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Monkeys Can Learn to Recognize Themselves in the Mirror
Generations of monkeys had tried and failed a classic test of intelligence, but the fault may have been in the way humans thought of the test
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The Art of Saving a Life is connected to a fundraising effort for an international group working to eradicate disease through vaccinations
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2015 Will Be One Second Longer Than 2014
Because the Earth is rotating more slowly than the tick of our atomic clocks, says the International Earth Rotation Service
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Visit Kepler’s Exoplanets—And Don’t Worry About the Natives (At Least for Now)
NASA has made a set of travel posters themed to exoplanets while a nonprofit searches for life among them
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Fossils Show How Flying Fish Started to Glide
In the quest to avoid being eaten, some fish took a leap into the open air
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Jurassic Park May Have Been Right—Some Dinosaurs Hunted in Packs
The film inspired paleontologists to discover the truth about dinos, including whether raptors were social hunters
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Scientists Can Tell How Old a Star Is by Observing How Fast It Spins
A newly proven method can pinpoint the age of stars with at least 90% accuracy
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Insecticide-Treated Nets May Create Super Mosquitoes
Two species of mosquitos have interbred, giving rise to hybrids that can resist the most potent weapons used against them
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