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Comet 67P Has a Welcome Song for Rosetta And Philae
A successful touchdown after the comet chase is just the herald of more discoveries to come, including the cause of the comet’s strange song
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Momentarily tuning out the world seems to be a requirement for tapping into an insightful idea
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China’s Climate Promises: Necessary, But Not Sufficient
The new U.S. and Chinese climate goals are important, but they’re not enough to stop the problem
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Beyond Owls And Larks: There Are Four Types of Sleepers
The two new groups include people who are rather energetic all day and others who are lethargic
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A Single Smelly Compound Sparks Carnivores’ Lust for Blood
When given scented wooden blocks soaked in this single chemical, captive carnivores go wild
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How Cats Transformed From Wild Animals to Cuddly Companions
Genetically, there’s not that much separating feline pets from jungle beasts
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Tomorrow, a Man-made Spacecraft Will Land On a Comet for the First Time, Ever
The action starts bright and early
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Can’t Clap to the Beat? You Might be Beat-Deaf
For some people, tapping their foot to the beat is a challenge at a fundamental level
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Researchers Are Examining a 9,000-Year-Old Bison Mummy
The well-mummified specimen of a steppe bison, a now-extinct species that lived in the Ice Age, has intact organs
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What If There Are Parallel Universes Jostling Ours?
It could explain a lot of weird, quantum physics
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Large Dinosaurs Had a Nesting Strategy to Avoid Breaking Eggs
Oviaptorosaurs likely kept their eggs in open nests—more like bird than crocodiles—but needed to arrange their eggs carefully
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Scientists Figured Out How to Make People “Feel” an Otherworldly Presence
Feeling like a ghost or an angel is near is likely caused by a blip in how our brain processes self awareness and our sense of place in space
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Arctic Squirrels Use Steroids to Bulk Up But Don’t Suffer the Consequences
Fat alone couldn’t get these squirrels through hibernation in burrows that get almost as chilly as -10 degrees Fahrenheit
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The Foolproof Way to Fix a Wobbly Table
Solving life’s challenges one at a time—with math!
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The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk
A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris
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Even Climate Scientists Are Getting Depressed by Our Lack of Progress
Anxiety about the changing environment isn’t just affecting you and professionals are working to understand it
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What Happens When Western And Traditional Chinese Medicine Merge
These two treatment philosophies were previously seen as being diametrically opposed, but some experts think the systems can complement each another
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Should We Use Satellites to Keep an Eye on Remote Amazonian Tribes?
Satellite monitoring could help keep tabs on indigenous people without invasive visits to their remote homes
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