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Pheromones From Man Sweat Makes Guys More Cooperative

The higher a man’s testosterone levels, the greater his generosity after sniffing the pheromone

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The First French Winemakers Learned Everything They Knew From Etruscans

New research pins the arrival of wine making in France to around 525 B.C.

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Some People’s Feet Are More Ape-Like Than Others’

One in about 13 people have more floppy feet, pointing toward a bone structure more akin to that found in fossils of 2 million-year-old human ancestors

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This Is an Actual Photo of a Planet in Another Solar System

This is a planet, 300 light years away, as seen through the Very Large Telescope

The chemical rearrangement of oligo-(phenylene-1,2-ethynylenes) as seen in the microscope image (top) and the stick diagram of the molecular structure.

For the First Time, See What the Most Basic Chemistry Actually Looks Like

For the first time scientists used a microscope to see a chemical reaction

If You Have a Medical Emergency on a Plane, Chances Are a Fellow Passenger Will Treat You

Only 0.3 percent of people who have a medical emergency on a plane die mid-flight or shortly after landing

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The Ancient Egyptians Had Iron Because They Harvested Fallen Meteors

Modern chemical analysis confirms that ancient Egyptians used iron from meteorites

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Scientists Just Found a Woolly Mammoth That Still Had Liquid Blood

From a frozen Siberian island, a well-preserved mammoth and some liquid mammoth blood

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What Happened to the Stromatolites, the Most Ancient Visible Lifeforms on Earth?

Stromatolites, or living layerd rocks, turned into thrombolites, or clotted stones, after a unicellular take-over

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Stiffening Arteries May Be at the Heart of ‘Senior Moments’

Stiffening arteries could cause bleeding in the brain

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The Gruesome ‘Atlas of Vertebrate Decay’ Does Have a Practical Purpose

Some of the earliest ancient vertebrates were too squishy to leave easily identifiable remains that lasted through millennia, so researchers are creating a rot look-book

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New Zealand Is in the Midst of a Five-Month-Long Earthquake

It’s a magnitude 7 earthquake, and it’s been rocking New Zealand’s capital since January

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We Fall Back on Habits, Good or Bad, When Stressed

Setting up healthy new habits, not controlling your behavior when stressed, may be the more effective way to cut back on eating or spending sprees

The Clovis people were known for their distinctive stone arrowheads.

How Two Retirees’ Amateur Archaeology Helped Throw Our View of Human History Into Turmoil

Through decades of excavation near their cottage Anton and Maria Chobot unearthed artifacts of the Clovis people

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Powerful Computers Are Piecing Together 1,000 Years of Jewish Chronicles

Hundreds of thousands of text fragments chronicle everything from marriage dowries to shopping lists to ancient religious texts

When hurricane Sandy made landfall on the east coast it wasn’t actually considered a hurricane anymore.

Batten Down the Hatches: Another Bad Hurricane Season Is on Its Way

Forecasters are predicting a hurricane season even more active than last year’s

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One Slight Genetic Tweak Gave White Tigers Their Pale Coats

That same gene change that gives white tigers their snowy coat also affects some fish, chickens, horses and even European humans

German cockroach

Cockroaches Have Evolved to Avoid Our Traps

In just a few years, cockroaches evolved to avoid our poisons

Nearly 40 Percent of Medical Students Are Biased Against Overweight Patients

Thirty-nine percent had a moderate to strong bias against overweight people, and 25 percent of them did not realize they were biased

Computers at Home Neither Help, Nor Hurt Students

Simply giving kids computers won’t suddenly make them do better in school

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