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How to Improve Your Vision Without Glasses, Contacts Or Surgery
Knowing a little about the physics of light can help you focus
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This Obscure Species of Mite Is the Fastest Animal on Earth
The mite just defeated the previous record-holder, the Australian tiger beetle
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Twin Astronauts Are Helping NASA Learn How a Year in Space Changes the Human Body
Mark and Scott Kelly will be part of a living experiment
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A Scientist’s Gender Biases Mouse Research
Mice are scared of male researchers, but not female researchers, which could affect a huge chunk of biological research
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This Seal Tried to Steal Another Seal’s Baby Before It Was Fully Born
Nature is not a nice place
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Photos: A Massive Sandstorm Swept Across Northern China
The event is one of the largest to hit China in years
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Long-Haul Space Flights Might Damage Astronauts’ Brains
This warning is based on a study involving rats, but researchers think it could apply to humans as well
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Cougars Survived the Pleistocene Extinction Because They’ll Eat Just About Anything Meaty
Eating everything that’s in front of you is key to eking by when times are tough
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Americans Are Living Longer, Healthier Lives, But Suicide And Drug-Induced Deaths Are on the Rise
Heart disease and cancer are still the big killers, but digging deeper into death statistics reveals some alarming trends
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Antarctica Was Once As Warm As Sunny California
Nearby polar regions got up to Florida-level temperatures
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Scientists Confirm That Cats a) Are Pretty Smart, b) Don’t Really Care What You Want
Cats’ impressive individuality makes it hard to study their smarts
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The Mississippi River Carries More Than Enough Sand to Rebuild Its Sinking Delta
The mighty Mississippi carries enough sand and silt to rebuild Louisiana’s disappearing marshes for the next 600 years
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Mars’ Super-Thin Atmosphere May Mean that Flowing Water Was the Exception, Not the Rule
A new analysis suggests that Mars’ atmosphere was often too thin to support liquid water
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Scurvy Plagued Columbus’ Crew, Even After the Sailors Left the Sea
Severe scurvy and malnutrition set the stage for the fall of La Isabela
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The U.K. Is Weirdly Obsessed With Rhea Birds—Which Keep Escaping Their Owners
A rhea went on the lam in the U.K.—and is far from the first giant, flightless bird to do so
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Real-Life True Blood Might Be Used in Trial Transfusions by 2016
Researchers in the U.K. have created the first man-made red blood cells of high enough quality to be introduced into the human body
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The Big “Gravitational Wave” Finding May Have Actually Just Been Some Dust
A supernova remnant interacting with interstellar dust could have caused the signals interpreted to be gravitational waves
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Pot Smokers’ Brains Are Different
But we can’t say for sure whether it’s pot that made them that way
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