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Seriously, Just Stay in Bed: Fever-Reducing Pills May Boost Flu Transmission

Nixing a fever boosts virus replication, which could result in additional transmission

Being on the beach helps too.

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You Can Get Placebo Sleep

Simply thinking you got better sleep makes your brain work better

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This Crazy Anemone Hangs Upside Down From the Antarctic Ice Shelf

Edwardsiella andrillae pop their tentacles out to feed

Beautiful, beautiful vaporized dirt.

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Vaporized Dirt Might Be the Mysterious Cause of Ball Lightning

An analysis of one ball’s contents found silicon, iron and calcium—the main components of dirt

Not the best place to get diarrhea.

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What Does Space Do To Your Microbiome?

Nobody wants E. coli on a trip to Mars

Halal meat is, usually, free of pork.

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Study Finds that Halal Meat in Iran is Contaminated With Pork

Halal meat is supposed to adhere to strict religious rules, but a new study suggests it isn’t quite so spotless

Alise Ojay claims that a series of routine vocalizations, performed 20 minutes a day over the course of less than a month, can reduce snoring significantly.

The Cure For Snoring Is…Singing?

Choir director Alise Ojay’s vocal exercises have been shown to work throat muscles that help silence the snorer within

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Two Pints of Water Can Contain the DNA of Thousands of Fish

Two pints of water from a 1.2 million gallon tank were all that was needed to identify 13,000 fish

An elephant seal from the Kerguelen islands with a logger device attached to his head, just before his departure back to sea.

Seals Are Scientists’ Little Helpers for Collecting Ocean Data

For the past 10 years, hundreds of seals equipped with special headgear have collected crucial data on ocean temperature and salinity for scientists

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School Really Should Start Later

Pushing start times back just 25 minutes can increase how much sleep teens get and how productive they are

Please look but don't take.

Beach Tourists Who Collect Shells May Be Harming the Environment

At one beach in Spain, increasing numbers of tourists have caused a 60 percent decline in shell abundance, potentially disrupting the aquatic ecosystem

A couple extra calories isn't going to kill you.

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Diet Soda Makes Breathalyzers Think You’re Drunk

Maybe because you are

A New Way to Find Out If Your Chocolate Is Legit

You no longer have to be expert chocolate-taster to tell whether your cacao beans are as fancy as advertised

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To Boost Your Chances of Kickstarter Success, Use These Key Phrases

Some phrases shows up time and again in successful Kickstarters, while others are associated with failure

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Do Babies Fake Cry?

Babies can be evil little creatures: they can even fake cry

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We’ve Got 1.5 Billion Years Left With a Habitable Earth

And then we need to get off this rock

New research suggests that before the age of seven, you can remember plenty from before you were three. But after, you start to forget.

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Don’t Give Your Kids and Pets Similar Sounding Names, Or You’ll Confuse Them

Your parents don’t actually think you and your sibling are interchangeable

A locust swarm in Israel.

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Grasshopper Gut Parasites Could Stop Ruinous Locust Swarms

The microbes confuse the chemical signals that tell pestilent locusts: swarm!

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We Burn Just Half the Calories Other Mammals Do

Our slow metabolism helps explain why it takes us so long to grow up—and why we live such long lives

In addition to its limb-like front fins, Tiktaalik had large, mobile rear fins that it used to push itself around in the water.

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Ancient Walking Fish May Have Walked on All Fours

A fossilized pelvis shows the fish had functioning rear “legs”

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