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New Research

Your Microbes Get Jet Lagged, Too

When bacteria’s circadian rhythm is disrupted, they become worse at their jobs

New Research

Wind Power is Actually Cheaper Than Coal, Nuclear and Gas

Once you consider the downstream consequences, coal becomes a lot more expensive

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This Google Glass Owner Only Took His Device Off to Sleep And Shower

And when he checked into rehab, he couldn’t stop touching his right temple

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“Arming the Rebels” Has Pretty Much Never Worked

Guns and training, but no on-the-ground support, doesn’t amount to much

An Australian banded stilt in Victoria.

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These Extreme Desert Nomads Set Records for Migrating Birds

Australian banded stilts use mysterious cues to know when to head toward ephemeral lakes in the country’s otherwise dry interior

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Zooplankton and Krill “Pee” Helps Determine Ocean Chemistry

Tiny marine life’s expelled ammonia fuels important chemical reactions

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Giant Icebergs Used to Ram Up Against Florida

21,000 years ago, icebergs carved up the ocean floor off the Miami coast

An artist's conception depicts WASP-43b's orbit around its star.

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Exoplanet Has Winds That Blow at the Speed of Sound

WASP-43b wouldn’t be a great place to live

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Bionic Hands Partially Restore Users’ Sense of Touch

The hand’s sensors communicate directly with the wearer’s nerves

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Each Day, 50 Percent of America Eats a Sandwich

About 20 percent of our daily sodium intake is delivered between two slices of bread

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How Exactly Does Exercise Help Your Brain?

Well-trained muscles could be protecting the body from an imbalance of chemicals that lead to depression

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Cancer Spreads Through Our Bodies at Night

This could mean that therapies delivered after dark might be more effective

The Congo River still plays a major transport role between the major cities of Kinshasa and Kisangani

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Why Kinshasa in the 1920s Was the Perfect Place for HIV to Go Global

Railways, a booming population and many sex workers created ideal conditions for the virus to spread

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Many of the Same Brain Regions Are Activated When Mothers Look at Their Pets or Their Children

It seems that maternal attachment does not discriminate between species

A new gravity map shows the details of the sea floor

New Research

Satellite Observations Revealed Thousands of New Mountains Right Here on Earth

There are thousands of mountains dotting the sea floor

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Could Climate Change Affect the Number of Boys and Girls Born?

Whether boy babies outnumber girl babies could be influenced by war, temperature and other stress factors

As many as 240,000 children were infected with HIV last year.

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A Second Baby Thought Cured of HIV Relapsed When Taken Off Antiviral Drugs

Antiretroviral drugs can control, but not cure, HIV in children

Cheetahs taking it easy in the Kalahari desert, Botswana.

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Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around

When human presence forces cheetahs to expend more energy, however, it put the animals’ survival at risk

Fortunately the lava cooled before we got there.

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The Man in the Moon Was Made By Radioactivity, Not Meteors

Differential cooling caused by radioactive material in the crust caused one of the Moon’s most distinctive features

An endangered green sea turtle in Hawaii that has contracted fibropapillomatosis.

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Pollution From Hawaii Is Giving Sea Turtles Gross, Deadly Tumors

Nitrogen runoff gets into the turtles’ food and causes tumors on their faces, flippers and organs

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