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Mysterious Childhood Disease Spread by Dust Storms
Winds from Chinese farmlands can carry a fungus that causes Kawasaki disease all the way to Japan, Hawaii and California -
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Termite Genome Reveals Details of "Caste System"
The social structure of termites evolved independently from bees and ants, but all the species seem to share similar chemical tags that control a few genes -
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World’s Deadliest Fuel Made Safe and Clean?
Coal kills. When it’s not horrific mining accidents like the one in Soma, Turkey, on May 13 that killed more than 300 miners, it’s the 13,000 Americans who die early each year because of air pollution from burning the dirtiest fossil fuel. -
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For Atom-Friendly Asia, a Nuclear Power Boom—in the West, Stagnation
In Europe and the U.S. cost overruns and delays raise questions about the market for a new generation of safer nuclear reactors -
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Flower Power: Collaboration Keeps Rare Plant off the Endangered Species List
Fifteen years ago the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) acknowledged that a rare plant called the Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum) deserved and needed protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). -
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Vitamin C Helps Pregnant Smokers Have Healthier Babies
Children of smokers who popped vitamin C during pregnancy had better lung function than kids of other women who also smoked during pregnancy. Dina Fine Maron reports
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How the Brain Makes and Breaks Habits
Researchers are pinpointing the brain circuits that can help us form good habits and break bad ones -
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Wild Beluga Whales Pass Hearing Test
Wild beluga whales were found to have hearing comparable with whales in captivity, which sets up a baseline test for hearing damage in other whales in noisy waters. Christopher Intagliata reports
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Issue Highlights: How Habits Form, the Illusion of Free Will and Biosensors
Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the June 2014 issue of Scientific American -
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China's Appetite for Meat Swells, Along with Climate Changing Pollution
Raising pigs, chickens and cows means increased emissions of the greenhouse gases causing climate change -
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Deadly Everest-like Avalanches More Common Thanks to Global Warming
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The Brazilian Banes: A World Cup Disease Guide
A global network of clinicians assess the most common diseases among travelers to Brazil, and the winner is surprising -
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In a Foreign Language, “Killing 1 to Save 5” May Be More Permissible
Language shapes our moral judgments -
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Electric Grid, You Have Software Updates Available
Researchers are developing software that will let renewable energy flow into and out of a decentralized power grid like data on the Internet -
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Energy & Sustainability
The Stories Our Refrigerators Tell
Do any of you remember The Brave Little Toaster? Anyone? It was an animated feature from the ’80s in which a group of older appliances leave the cabin where they “lived” to find their master owner in the big city. -
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Ancient Underwater Volcano Discovered in Hawaii
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Recipe For A Photograph #4: The Emerging Mosquito
Here is a powerful method to photograph the world’s most dangerous animal in an unusual moment of vulnerability. But first, a digression into mosquito biology. -
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Can Machines Produce Art that Moves Us?
This happens more often than you’d think: You tell someone you are an illustrator. They ask you a few questions and then get to what’s really on their mind: “So, do you do all your work on the computer or do you draw everything by hand?” When you respond that you do some (or all) [...] -
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Russia and Canada Heat Up Faster Than the Arctic [Slide Show]
New maps show that temperatures are rising quickest across Earth’s northern midlatitudes -
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Floods Affect over 1 Million People in Balkans, Destruction "Terrifying"
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