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Scientists Explain How an All Drug Olympics Could Create the Greatest Athletes Ever
If we let athletes dope all they want, just how big, fast and strong can they really get?
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Ancient Climate Change Meant Antarctica Was Once Covered with Palm Trees
53 million years ago, Antarctica was so warm that palm trees lived along its shores.
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Miners, Drillers Push Into Void Left By Melting Arctic Ice
The opening of parts of the Arctic Ocean each summer, and the melting of surface ice on northern landscapes, driving a gold rush into the Arctic frontier
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Research Suggests Politicians are More Likely to Be Psychopaths
Several of the characteristics that define a psychopath also correspond to the traits that make for effective leaders. For politicians, this is true
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How to Follow Every Second of the Curiosity Mars Mission
The Curiosity lander sets down in just a few days, and here’s who to follow on Twitter in anticipation
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Smell Hallucinations Exist Too, and Could Be a Sign of Health Problems
Nasal hallucinations are a real thing, and they stink
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How The Feeling We Call Awe Helped Humans Conquer the Planet
Getting your daily dose of awe inspires patience, altruism, and life satisfaction
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When It’s Okay to Kill 80,000 Wild Goats
The Galapagos recently finished exterminating 80,000 invasive goats from the island
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How An Unholy Alliance of Unusual Weather and Scarce Coal Nuked India’s Power Grid
Power grids supplying both the northern and eastern parts of India went down, throwing 620 million people, or 8.9% of the world population into darkness
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Why You Shouldn’t Panic Over The Latest News About Bird Flu
New research reveals that the flu virus has mutated into a novel strain of influenza, which transfers not just from bird to seal, but from seal to seal
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Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong
No one, not even the experts, really knows what’s about to happen
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Teaching Molecular Biology with Watercolors
Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a microscope as with a paint brush
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We’re Biased By Our Body’s Dominant Side
A new study shows that right-handed and left-handed people make different choices
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The Environmental Case Against Cheap Coffee
Bad news for coffee drinkers: It turns out that those cheap coffee pots found in offices are one of the biggest energy hogs in the modern workplace
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How LOLCats and Laser Pointers Are Bad for Our Pets
The things we do to animals for the LOLs might not be as innocuous as they seem
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If Humans Are Ever Going to See Alien Life, Here’s Where It Will Happen
Scientists are all atwitter over Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons and one of the most likely places in our solar system to harbor life
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How The Fukushima Exclusion Zone Shows Us What Comes After The Anthropocene
Images of the evacuated area around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant offer a glimpse at a world without humans
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Shark Teeth Have Built-in Toothpaste
Sharks may have the healthiest teeth in the animal kingdom
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Live Bear Cam Shows Hot Bear on Salmon Action
A live webcam let’s you watch Alaskan brown bears hunt salmon during the fishes’ annual migration
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Older Termites Blow Themselves Up to Protect Their Colony
After a lifetime of servitude to the colony, older termites sacrifice the only thing they have left: their lives
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