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The truth about star naming, a practical plan for getting rid of fossil fuels, imitating gecko feet, worms in your diet, and why we have a bias against foreigners.
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A fabric that detects biohazards, an excess of men, the cost of a year of life, stopping train derailments with lasers, and the rising number of venomous fish.
Biohazard Wipe
A new fabric can detect just about any biohazard--from E. coli to anthrax--instantly.
Health Care Costs
A new analysis suggests the rising cost of health care may be relatively cheap.
Disease Roundup
Scientists are looking at germs' genes to find their weaknesses.
Caffeine Withdrawal
A listener asks: Why do I get a headache if I go without coffee?
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A good time to be a dinosaur hunter, how your personality affects your health, electricity could heal wounds, plastics made from DNA, and the fastest body parts in the world.
Heart and Personality
New research suggests personality and heart disease aren't as intertwined as we thought.
Electric Healing
Amping up the body's natural electricity may help wounds heal faster.
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Underwater noise pollution, genes for alcoholism, PCBs may compromise vaccines, proof of dark matter, and uvulas in animals.
PCBs and Vaccines
A common environmental pollutant may stifle the effectiveness of childhood vaccines.
Recovery Roundup
Scientists have thought that brain cells that die during a stroke can't be replaced. But the brain seems to have a different idea.
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Music composed by a volcano, how quickly we judge others, wildfires release mercury, good news about recovering from stroke and heart attacks, and a contagious cancer in dogs.
Contagious Cancer
We all know that you can't catch cancer. But it turns out that dogs can.
Escaping Mercury
By setting off a chain reaction, global warming may cause centuries' worth of stored mercury to escape back into the environment.
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The better way to commute, resetting your internal food clock, why we don't remember our dreams, fungi that live in plants, and the problem with some drug companies' patient headhunting practices.
Patient Payola
Some drug companies pay doctors to find and keep patients for clinical trials.
Medicinal Plants Roundup
Scientists are finding more and more plant compounds that fight disease.
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The world's sharpest needle, a cancer treatment from a war paint plant, how men are like dogs, an outdoor greenhouse, and your brain's reaction to exercise.