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Operation: Dark Wolf
Wolf, WolfDaniel Stahler/NPSScientists tested the DNA of these Yellowstone National Park wolf siblings for clues to their different coat colors: gray on the left, black on the right.Many millennia ago,...
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High-Energy Physics Probes Ancient Fossils
Sealed InSLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryPaleontologist Peter Larson seals the Archaeopteryx fossil in preparation for X-ray imaging at the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Synchrotron...
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SciKu: A Rare Internet Fossil in the Making
An ultra-high-resolution X-ray scan of a 300-million-year-old fossilized fish skullPNAS/Philippe Janvier (CNRS, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle)The orange blob at the center is (was) its brain.We...
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Triathlons: Brutal to the Body
Swimmers in the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 last NovemberBakke-Svensson/IronmanAt the first-ever Ironman triathlon in 1978, the 15 competitors read these instructions in the race...
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Happy Hairball Awareness Day!
A Hairball From a CowNational Museum of Health and MedicineHairballs aren't just for cats anymore, and the National Museum of Health and Medicine wants to be sure America knows it. Really, truly, today...
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Parents and Adult Children: Mutually Irritating
Our MomiStockPhotoInvestigators at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research have unequivocally demonstrated that our parents often get on our nerves -- and we on theirs. "The...
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First Transgenic Primate Group Glows and Grows
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Oldest Musical Instrument Found
FluteThe earliest modern humans in Europe carved this 8.5-inch flute from a vulture bone more than 35,000 years ago.How's this for classic rock? German scientists have unearthed the oldest-known...
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Science Confirms the Obvious: People Wash Their Hands More When They're Watched
Handwashing Map© HAHS IPCU 2003Red areas are those that are most frequently missed when handwashing, purple less so.A new public health study released just in time for Global Handwashing Day (today!)...
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Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate
What Species Are You Eating?John B. CarnettIn the ongoing campaign to protect endangered animals, forensic investigators can already identify the food on your plate. Now they are working on advanced...
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Operation: Dark Wolf
Science Our ancient genetic engineering that turned wolf to dog has made its mark on modern wolves—and may help them survive modern climate Many millennia ago, man created dog. As the story goes, gray...
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High-Energy Physics Probes Ancient Fossils
Science Thanks to particle accelerators, paleontologists can now don the best X-ray specs in the world Lately, paleontologists have been choosing odd bedfellows to study rare, precious fossils:...
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SciKu: A Rare Internet Fossil in the Making
Science A new day, a new paleontological discovery, a new SciKu (and a video) We bet that SciKu, the delicate science poetry that belongs to everyone, will last and last. As did, apparently, a...
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Triathlons: Brutal to the Body
Science Study shows that triathlons are twice as deadly as marathons At the first-ever Ironman triathlon in 1978, the 15 competitors read these instructions in the race guidelines: "Swim 2.4 miles!...
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Happy Hairball Awareness Day!
Science Swallow these facts on hairballs and other undigestibles Hairballs aren’t just for cats anymore, and the National Museum of Health and Medicine wants to be sure America knows it. Really,...
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Parents and Adult Children: Mutually Irritating
Science Family dynamics often fraught with tension, study shows Investigators at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research have unequivocally demonstrated that our parents often get...
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First Transgenic Primate Group Glows and Grows
Science A first in transgenic research could aid the study of diseases like Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's Japanese biologists have made genetically modified primates that can pass the modification to...
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Science Bird-bone flute hints that Paleolithic humans banded together to the demise of Neanderthals How's this for classic rock? German scientists have unearthed the oldest-known musical instrument...
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Science Confirms the Obvious: People Wash Their Hands More When They're Watched
Science A new public health study released just in time for Global Handwashing Day (today!) offers not one but two gems of Science-Confirms-the-Obvious wisdom. Firstly: the… A new public health study...
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Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate
Science Scientists deploy genetic forensics to protect overhunted animals In the ongoing campaign to protect endangered animals, forensic investigators can already identify the food on your plate. Now...
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