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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The vuvuzela, the traditional instrument we've all come to know (and love) from the fans at the World Cup, shares a special kins..
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Things happen when you spend time in wild places. Things that you can't explain. Like this: One day psychology professor Barb Sm..
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
Back in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb, creating what might be the greatest fireworks spectacular ever. People in Hawaii..
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Imagine you wake up one morning and can't read. Your eyes work, but the letters on the page have turned into squiggles. They mak..
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
One of Agatha Christie's last novels apparently contains not only a messy plot, but signs of undiagnosed Alzheimer's. Likewise, ..
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Think we've never heard from an alien? A radio transmission recorded in Ohio and translated into six little numbers and letters ..
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Back in the late 18th century, there was a young man who liked to spend his time inhaling a lot of different gases. He was looki..
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Back in the 1770s, a scientist named Dr. Joseph Priestley was studying mice to try to understand how animals breathe and how oxy..
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Scientists have found hundreds of big, gassy planets that orbit close to "their" star, though solar systems with small rocky pla..
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Two different patients. Two different stories. But a shared delusion. Each is convinced that someone they love dearly is not tha..
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
So Volkswagen has this new concept car — give it two gallons of gas, and it will go 416 miles without a stop. But German e..
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Part of the art of being a field scientist in Africa is to make the animals think you're not watching them. So Barb Smuts had to..
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Each New Year's, Christmas and birthday seems to come round faster every year. But why is it that we feel time goes by faster a..
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The reason for a lack of willpower may be that you're working your prefrontal cortex too hard. If you give it too many jobs to d..
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
A biologist reflects on an awe-inspiring experience in Africa, when a group of baboons united in some kind of amazing "mystical"..
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