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Scientists show that microbes from Earth can survive conditions found on Mars
Astrobiologists have been worried for quite some time now that the Martian surface has been contaminated with microbes originating from Earth — what got there by clinging to all the various probes and...
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What can we possibly learn from analyzing the Newtown gunman's DNA?
For the first time ever, researchers will conduct a detailed study of the DNA of a mass killer. By taking a closer look at Adam Lanza's genomic data, scientists are hoping to discover the potential...
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Why We Should Let the Robots Take Over
Wired's Kevin Kelly has penned an article in which he argues that we should let robots take our jobs — a welcome development that will help us to "dream up new work that matters." Moreover, it will be...
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Could a captive tornado power an entire city?
The Thiel Foundation's Breakout Labs recently announced its plans to fund a radical new approach to producing cheap and clean energy. Called the Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE), the highly conceptual...
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The One Type of Music That All Parrots Everywhere Despise
Parrots obviously have a keen ear, as their incredible skills in mimicry attest. This caused researchers in the U.K. to wonder if they have certain preferences when it comes to music. As their...
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Astronomer says all those Earth-like planets we're discovering are anything but
The past 12 months has seen a dramatic influx in announcements proclaiming the discovery of Earth-like planets. It was only a few years ago that the detection of any kind exoplanet was cause for...
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Human Gene Patenting: Yes, Companies Can Own Your DNA
The idea of patenting a gene seems strange, and it's a practice that's made weirder by virtue of the fact that the genes of living humans can also be patented. How is this possible? And what are the...
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Physicians in China treat addictions by destroying the brain's pleasure center
Drug addiction in China is highly stigmatized. And now, some doctors are trying to cure it with a radical procedure known as as a "stereotactic ablation." More simply, it's the practice of destroying...
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Why does Jaron Lanier hate the Web so much?
Back in 2000, internet pioneer Jaron Lanier astonished the digital world by turning his back on the very thing he helped to create and promote — namely, the unabashedly enthusiastic and quasi-utopian...
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Shout Out Louds release a record made entirely from ice
It's been three years since we last heard from Swedish indie rockers Shout Out Louds, but their latest single, "Blue Ice," is certainly bound to draw some renewed attention. In collaboration with ad...
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Behold the world's most spectacular crater lakes
Photo blog Love These Pics has compiled an impressive gallery of 42 of the world's most beautiful crater lakes. Typically formed inside the cone of an extinct volcano, crater lakes are unusually...
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The Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012
Yesterday we told you about the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2012. But now we turn our attention to those developments that make us realize just how futuristic things are quickly becoming. And...
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What's the penalty for smuggling dinosaur bones? A lot more than you'd think
A man who illegally exported a Tyrannosaurus skeleton from Mongolia has plead guilty to all charges and now faces up to 17 years in prison. As magistrate judge Ronald L. Ellis' ruling suggests, it's...
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NASA considers plan to capture an asteroid and turn it into a space station
The White House's Office of Science and Technology is currently mulling over a proposal from Caltech scientists that describes a plan to capture a near-Earth asteroid and bring it into the moon's...
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15-year old whiz kid has research on dwarf galaxies published in Nature
For many scientists, having their research published in a major journal is about as good as it gets — especially if that publication happens to be the prestigious journal Nature. But for 15-year old...
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This dinosaur-era bird had a full set of teeth for crushing armored prey
In an unprecedented discovery, paleontologists working in China have found the fossilized remains of an ancient bird with ornamented tooth enamel. Called Sulcavis geeorum, the bird lived during the...
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Dinosaurs probably shook their tail feathers and "struck a pose" to attract...
After studying a curious feature in the tail section of oviraptor fossils, a paleontologist from the University of Alberta has concluded that these small dinosaurs must have used their tail plumage to...
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A new video game called Endgame:Syria has been rejected by Apple for inclusion into the App Store because it violates its guidelines strictly forbidding content that "solely target[s] a specific race,...
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This massive Triassic Era sea monster picked on prey its own size
Paleontologists have confirmed the existence of a new species of ichthyosaur, a group of marine reptiles that terrorized the world's oceans during the dinosaur era — and this one was an absolute...
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Simulated mission to Mars made astronauts sleepy, lethargic, and less motivated
Back in November 2011, a multinational crew of six ended their 17-month long simulation to Mars and back. Confined to a trailer for 520 days, the pretend-astronauts had every detail of their lifestyle...
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