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Scientists Enhance Intelligence of Mice with Human Brain Cells
It's not quite Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but it may not be too far off, either. By grafting human glial cells into the brains of mice, neuroscientists were able to "sharply enhance" their...
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Check out these unpublished color photos of World War II American bomber crews
Shortly after the 1942 deployment of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, LIFE Magazine sent Margaret Bourke-White to spend time with the now legendary VIII Bomber Command. During her assignment, she...
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A Brain Implant That Treats Severe Eating Disorders
It was starting to get so bad for Ontario's Kim Rollins that her mother started to make plans for the funeral. Conventional therapies weren't helping to alleviate her severe anorexia, so Rollins...
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This satellite can detect earthquakes from space
Some earthquakes are so powerful they can actually be felt up in space. Looking to take advantage of this phenomenon, a group of researchers have created the world's first seismometer in orbit around...
View ArticleWatch as retired lab chimps see the sky for the very first time
In January we reported on the successful initiative by government scientists in the U.S. to end most research done on chimps. In all, about 450 chimps currently held in government research facilities...
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A star that looks older than the universe itself
About a century ago, astronomers discovered a fast-moving star formally known as HD 140283. Initial estimates of its age placed it a perplexing 16 billion years old — a serious problem considering...
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How does the Anthropic Principle change the meaning of the universe?
One of the more extraordinary things about the universe is that it has produced beings who can observe it — namely, us. Its laws and constants are so precise that, if they were even slightly modified,...
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Nanoparticles Made From Bee Venom Can Kill HIV
Earlier this week we reported on the remarkable news that a Mississippi-born baby was cured of HIV. Now, as if to show the disease that it's days are truly numbered, researchers from Washington...
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Russian scientists say they've found 'unclassified life' in Antarctic Lake
For the past several weeks we've been anxiously awaiting news from the Russian research team that recently drilled into Lake Vostok, a massive body of water that's located about 2 miles below the...
View ArticleA breathtaking video montage of time-lapse clips taken from orbit
Photographer Bruce W. Berry has meticulously pieced together a gorgeous and humbling compilation of time-lapse sequences taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. To make it happen,...
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Brain Scans Can Predict What You're Dreaming About
A recent experiment in Japan shows that some of our most private thoughts may be more accessible than previously assumed. By hooking up volunteers to brain scanners, and then correlating accounts of...
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10 Unusual Genetic Mutations in Humans
No two people are alike, due to the subtly different ways our genomes are expressed. But sometimes these biological differences lead to genetic mutations that are extremely rare, and sometimes...
View ArticleThis was a tough one to research.
This was a tough one to research. I have to admit that I got queasy at times.
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Fair point — and that's actually a great idea for a future list.
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What you should know about the new avian bird flu
The death toll from a new flu strain in China has now reached six. It's not known if the virus can be transmitted from person to person, but based on what the experts are saying, it’s a development...
View ArticlePETMAN is the Terminator's less violent kid brother
Looks like BigDog finally has a robotic counterpart to take him out for a walk. Actually, Boston Dynamics's PETMAN has been under development for a while now, but this is our first opportunity to see...
View ArticleI was surprised by how much this made my stomach turn when I first watched it.
I was surprised by how much this made my stomach turn when I first watched it. It's the uncanny valley aspect to it, I think. There's a threatening quality to it, another reminder of how we're...
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How Bayes’ Rule Can Make You A Better Thinker
Having a strong opinion about an issue can make it hard to take in new information about it, or to consider other options when they're presented. Thankfully, there’s an old rule that can help us avoid...
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