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Grilling could take a toll on your health, smarter doesn't equal richer, an infection could help prevent asthma, a step toward fusion reactors, and …
Grilling could take a toll on your health, smarter doesn't equal richer, an infection could help prevent asthma, a step toward fusion reactors, and …
Replacing your skeleton with metal, a sniff test for neurological diseases, a decline in baby boy births, how your brain puts on the brakes, and the …
The Darfur region has an ancient underground lake, animals navigate with internal compasses, what plants would look like on other planets, why …
The science of deja vu, pollution from cities affects rainfall on mountaintops, a machine that can make almost anything, diets just don't work, and …
Taking a picture of an itch, the genetics of social behavior, the drying of the American Southwest, looking a hurricane in the eye, and a stop-smoking …
How supernovas make heavy elements, why teenagers have angst, some fierce arachnids get cuddly, why tanning is addictive, and the thinnest material …
Life-and-death decisions from computers, video games are good and bad, seeing red hurts test scores, Dr. Tatiana on animal sex, and the link between …
Deciphering the calls of blue whales, genetic tests for mental conditions, a three-way symbiotic relationship, studying tear film, and the truth about …
The call of a rare bird, marijuana-like brain chemicals, the Earth without a tilt, using measles to fight cancer, and making public aquariums …
Why rainbows are round (yes, round), ultraviolet light is an aphrodesiac to jumping spiders, getting rid of interior rattles in cars, senior citizens …
Why you can't remember your babyhood, Africa's pulling apart, how amoebas move, nonsmoking women are more prone to lung cancer than nonsmoking men, …
Using ultrasound to find expensive wood, how cheese is helping to fight a tree fungus, the connection between prostate cancer and a lack of male sons, …
How addiction is like hunger, a new therapy that targets a virus's genes, the best math students perform the worst, pollution could contribute to …
Where insects go in winter, winged dinosaurs, fish that cannibalize their young, calculating the value of polio vaccinaton, and mining can cause …
Why you're not perfect, sitting up straight could be bad for you, the downfalls of two ancient civilizations coincided with climate change, the study …
A recipe for life on Mars, how Alzheimer's and herpes are related, amnesia obscures the future as well as the past, a zoo exhibit features humans, and …
Small distractions could be big trouble, the effects of cell phone waves on our health, how nature cleans itself, eels and grouper hunt together, and …
Giving blood could be good for you, backpacks are better with bungee cords, taking a census of the air's bacteria, happiness helps ward off colds and …
Exploring the origins of life, a laser-enhanced satellite for monitoring ozone, why cannibalism is in everyone's blood, a spit-test for sleepiness, …
An update to the stethoscope, why fevers may be healthy, how whales' brains are like ours, making robots from DNA, and lessons from the fat and skinny …
Headbanging termites, why we eat salmon before--and not after--they spawn, a "smart bomb" for dental plaque, an ancient Greek sky …
The secret of a Stradivarius violin, how giraffes block a head rush, using bees for homeland security, saving seagrass, and a strange new ingredient …
Something unexpected at the North Pole, World Toilet Day and other toilet news, why golf balls have dimples but racecars don't, how a father's …
Your birthday greetings to us, hopeful news about malaria in Africa, robots that can recover from injury, news about Neanderthals, the truth about lie …