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Southeast Is the Most Unhealthy U.S. Region [Slide Show]
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How Do Animals Become Zombies? - Instant Egghead
It may sound like something straight out of a horror movie, but many animals can come under the zombie-like control of parasites. So what about humans? Scientific American editor Katherine Harmon fills us in on the ghoulish side of Nature. -
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Lonesome George, the Last of His Kind, Strikes His Final Pose
After the century-old giant tortoise died, Galápagos conservationists and a taxidermist had to figure out how to continue his legacy -
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First Direct Observations of How Roots Grow
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Has Your Smartphone Made Your Other Gadgets Obsolete? [Survey]
Tell us how you use your smartphone, which gadgets it has replaced and where you would like to see the technology go -
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People Prefer Electric Shocks to Tedium
Many people prefer any activity to simply sitting quietly—even an electric shock -
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Millions of Doses of Ebola Vaccine to Be Ready by End of 2015
The World Health Organization is testing a handful of experimental vaccines.Hundred of thousands of doses could be available before the end of June -
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Can Viruses Treat Cancer?
For some cancer patients, viruses engineered to zero in on tumor cells work like a wonder drug. The task now is to build on this success -
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Cocoa Constitutents Fend Off Senior Moments—the Memory of a 30-Year-Old?
Scott Small, a professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, researches Alzheimer's, but he also studies the memory loss that occurs during the normal aging process. -
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The Return of the Propeller
The demand for shorter, cheaper flights is driving new research into turboprops -
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U.N. Climate Change Draft Sees Risks of Irreversible Damage
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, drawing on three mammoth scientific reports published since September 2013, shows the need for urgent and ambitious action -
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What’s Your Favorite Vintage Gadget?
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Readers Respond to "Creativity Is Collective"
Letters to the editor from the July/August 2014 issue of Scientific American MIND -
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Snaking Staircase Nominated for Prestigious Engineering Award
The Miles Stair uses stronger, lighter concrete -
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Hospitals Need Time, Training to Get Ready for Ebola
New Ebola guidelines for hospitals may help, but workers need training and support to be adequately prepared for new cases -
Nature
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Ebola by the Numbers: The Size, Spread and Cost of the Outbreak
As the virus spreads in West Africa, a graphic offers a guide to the case count and transmission figures that matter -
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Space
Google Exec’s Stratospheric Plunge Breaks World Record
This morning in Roswell, New Mexico, a spacesuit-clad 57-year-old Google executive, Alan Eustace, strapped into a harness beneath a giant helium balloon and lifted off to new heights in the upper stratosphere. -
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Baby Prep School: A Brain Game Or A Mama’s Coo-Cooing?
Baby’s first robot If you could only learn a language with the innocent receptivity of a young child. That adage, repeated ad nauseam, once an adult has decided to learn French or Tagalog engenders endless debate. -
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Ferns Communicate to Decide on Their Sexes
Older generations release pheromones to balance the sex ratio in youngsters -
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Ebola Efforts Helped by Flu Shots
Should Ebola continue to crop up in the U.S., having fewer people coming to emergency rooms with the similar symptoms of flu will help the public health system respond. Steve Mirsky reports
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