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The Science of Why Toothpaste Makes Food Taste Funny

Blame toothpaste’s foaming action

X-ray technology was invented in 1985 by Wilhelm Röntgen. This early image, along with others set to be on the block, were taken just a year later.

Cool Finds

Amazing Artifacts From the History of Science Are Going Up for Auction

Now if only we all had infinite money

An artist's conception depicts WASP-43b's orbit around its star.

New Research

Exoplanet Has Winds That Blow at the Speed of Sound

WASP-43b wouldn’t be a great place to live

Satellite image of New Zealand

Cool Finds

Here’s One Very Good Reason to Drill Deep Into an Active Fault

Scienctists hope to install instruments at the fault to observe changes in the earth at depth

Cool Finds

Why Is Antarctic Sea Ice at a 35-Year High?

Nobody really knows, but they have some thoughts

New Research

Bionic Hands Partially Restore Users’ Sense of Touch

The hand’s sensors communicate directly with the wearer’s nerves

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Google Maps an Oasis in the Desert From the Back of a Camel

The desert is not the best place for a Street View car

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For the First Time Ever, a Woman With a Transplanted Uterus Gave Birth to a Baby

Two more women with transplanted uteruses are due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, too

New Research

Each Day, 50 Percent of America Eats a Sandwich

About 20 percent of our daily sodium intake is delivered between two slices of bread

New Research

How Exactly Does Exercise Help Your Brain?

Well-trained muscles could be protecting the body from an imbalance of chemicals that lead to depression

Cool Finds

Some Surgery Is No Better Than Sham “Placebo” Surgery

The placebo effect isn’t just for pills

New Research

Cancer Spreads Through Our Bodies at Night

This could mean that therapies delivered after dark might be more effective

Scientists Figure Out Why Mozzarella Is the Perfect Pizza Cheese

It’s all about the elasticity, moisture and oil content

New Research

Many of the Same Brain Regions Are Activated When Mothers Look at Their Pets or Their Children

It seems that maternal attachment does not discriminate between species

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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2014 Nobel Prizes

Just enough to catch up

A herd of wild ass runs across the Tibetan plateau in Qinghai

Cool Finds

The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors

The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes

A new gravity map shows the details of the sea floor

New Research

Satellite Observations Revealed Thousands of New Mountains Right Here on Earth

There are thousands of mountains dotting the sea floor

Don't do this.

Cool Finds

What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?

A lifetime of chronic health issues

New Research

Could Climate Change Affect the Number of Boys and Girls Born?

Whether boy babies outnumber girl babies could be influenced by war, temperature and other stress factors

As many as 240,000 children were infected with HIV last year.

New Research

A Second Baby Thought Cured of HIV Relapsed When Taken Off Antiviral Drugs

Antiretroviral drugs can control, but not cure, HIV in children

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