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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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Playing Video Games Could Actually Change Your Brain—But Not in a Bad Way
Despite video games’ bad rep, they might improve a person’s strategizing and multi-tasking abilities
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Nearly Half of Americans Believe At Least One Conspiracy Theory
William S. Burroughs once said, “Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.”
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This Rare Footage Shows Two Live 15-Foot-Long Oarfish Swimming in the Ocean
Two very shy oarfish were seen swimming near the shoreline in Mexico
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Here’s How Neuroscientists in the 1800s Studied Blood Flow in the Brain
New translations of early neuroscience reveal how in 1882 one Italian physiologist was able to measure blood flow changes in the brain
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Bison Running Away From Earthquakes? Not So Fast
A video of bison running through Yellowstone sparked speculation that they were running away from an earthquake. They weren’t
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Ancient Wandering Shepherds Spread Crops Across Eurasia
The nomadic shepherds of central Asia joined east and west
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Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake
New proof that Enceladus is a watery world
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Almost 65 Years After Its Pieces Were Dispersed, Scientists Reconstructed a Long-Lost Dinosaur Chase
A lost set of dinosaur footprints in Texas has been reconstructed from 70-year-old photographs
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Rather than being the descendants of feral mutts, dingoes are actually in their own unique taxonomical corner
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