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Dogs That Should Be Guarding Sheep Are Mating With Wolves Instead
Intimate encounters between dogs and wolves are relatively common in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains
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We Might Hit Our Cognitive Peak Before 24
As we age beyond about 24, we become mentally slower and slower
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A Fully Vaccinated Woman Contracted And Then Spread the Measles
This is the first time health officials have encountered a Typhoid Mary-like situation for measles
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Mid-Day Naps Can Be a Sign of Bad Health
People who frequently take naps tend to die younger than those who don’t, according to a new study
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The American Dream Doesn’t Mean the Same Thing to White People And Minorities
While many see the American Dream including a home, not everybody thinks about that home the same way
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In Need of a New Nostril? Scientists Can Grow One From Your Cartilage
Researchers in Switzerland just performed the first reconstructive nasal surgery using lab-grown cartilage
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We Remember People We Met as Babies, Even If We Don’t Remember Being Babies
Babies can subconsciously remember people they’ve met, even if they don’t remember meeting them
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Ice-Age Bees Uncovered at the La Brea Tar Pits
The samples were actually excavated back in 1970, but were set aside because there wasn’t a way to analyze them at the time
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Walmart’s About to Do for Organic Food What It Did for Every Other Consumer Product
Walmart’s going to give organic food a big push
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Oldest Fossilized Heart Found…It Belonged to A Shrimp
Researchers found the oldest-known cardiovascular system in a fossilized “shrimp-like” anima
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It Is Possible for Grandmas to Overindulge on Time With Their Grandkids
One day with the kids is boon to cognitive performance, but five days is draining
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Sea Otters Can Get the Human Flu
Scientists have no idea how the otters contracted the H1N1 virus, however
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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Is Now at Its Highest Point in Human Existence
The air hasn’t been so full of carbon dioxide in, at least, the past 800,000 years
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Scientists Convince a Mouse’s Organ to Roll Back Its Own Aging
By triggering the expression of a specific gene, the mouse’s thymus reversed its aging
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When Evolution’s Controversial, Declaring a State Fossil Can Get Tricky
The Columbian Mammoth gets caught in the crossfire of the culture wars
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Lawyers Who Make Less Money And Get Worse Grades Are the Happiest
Money can’t buy you happiness, even if you’re a lawyer
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This Winter Was Hard on Animals, Too
As tough as it was on humans, it may have been even harder on the animals who don’t get to curl up in front of the fire
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Under the Summer Sun, the Corn Belt Is the Most Biologically Productive Place on Earth
During the peak growing season, the corn belt outproduces the Amazon
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