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The 18th Century Fur Trade Polluted Lake Superior’s Shore With Mercury That’s Never Gone Away
The area’s elevated mercury levels aren’t healthy for fish, birds or humans
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The World’s Sea Creatures Have Gotten Bigger
A new study reveals evolution in the ocean appears to favor larger animals
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Save the Birds By Embarrassing Your Cat
Outfitting cats in colorful collars may be one key to preventing them from effectively preying on birds and other small animals
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Neanderthals Divvied Up Chores by Sex
New research on Neanderthal teeth shows differing gender roles
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Fat Is a Texture, Not a Taste…For Now
Scientists predict fat will join the other primary tastes within ten years
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Is That Pill a Placebo? This Program Can Tell, Even If You Can’t
A new algorithm could make it faster and less expensive to develop new painkillers
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Ants Have Designated Toilet Areas in Their Nests
A new study shows that black garden ants have a relatively meticulous protocol for when nature calls
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Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material
The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed
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Found: A New Tool in the Fight Against HIV
New approach offers “vaccine-like” protection against HIV
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Only 1 in 4 Americans Would Take a Free Space Flight
Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel
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This Teeny Chair Can Assemble Itself
A tiny prototype developed at MIT marks one of the first steps into a world where we’ll never need an Allen wrench again
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Is DNA the Solution for Permanent Data Storage?
New study uses “synthetic fossils” to store data for the ages
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The Cold May Have Cost Penguins Most of Their Taste Buds
Recent genetic analysis shows that penguins can’t taste sweet or bitter, and scientists think sub-zero temps may be to blame
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Is Our Universe Supersymmetric?
Scientists hope the rebooted Large Hadron Collider could find supersymmetric particles—the next frontier of particle physics
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Four baby stars, still gestating in their parental gas cloud, move together - for now at least
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Luna Moths’ Gorgeous Wings Throw Off Bat Attacks
Spinning twin tails at the end of moth wings garble bats’ sonar cries, causing the winged predators to miss the tasty mark
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Teachers Give Lower Math Scores to Girls
Teachers’ unconscious beliefs in the aptitude of boys over girls come out when grading math tests
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Technology from ‘Interstellar’ Could Be Useful to Scientists, Too
The movie’s visual effects are now being used for scientific research
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City Bees Are Actually More Diverse Than Country Bees
Other pollinators don’t like urban areas as much as rural, but bees live in similar numbers across different landscapes
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Tourist Trash Has Changed the Color of Yellowstone’s Morning Glory Pool
Researchers have found proof of what caused a hot spring’s drastic color modification—it’s people, of course
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