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Evolution
Polar Bear Rapid Evolution Lets Them Be Fat Fit
Since diverging from a common ancestor with brown bears less than half a million years ago, polar bears have accumulated genetic changes that allow them to eat a super-high-fat diet without suffering cardiovascular consequences. Karen Hopkin reports. -
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Technology
Facebook Encourages Yentas To Share Info About Friends
The social network hopes to fill in the info blanks for its low-profile members by having their friends supply the details. Larry Greenemeier reports.
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Space
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Now Just Pretty Good
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, once estimated to be 25,500 miles across, was just 10,250 miles wide in the latest Hubble Space Telescope observations, and the shrinking seems to be accelerating. Clara Moskowitz reports.
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News
Energy & Sustainability
If You’re Looking for a Healthy Environment, Follow the Dancing Bee
Honeybee “waggle dances” could help conservationists judge whether wildlife restoration efforts are working
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The Daily Climate
Energy & Sustainability
What's On Your Climate Change Summer Reading List?
Need to keep your edge in this summer of sweat and torpor? The Daily Climate's annual summer reading list can help -
Life, Unbounded
Space
Snow, a Slowing Planet, and a Last Dangerous Dance with Venus
In about a month’s time, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft will adjust its orbit and dip into the outer venusian atmosphere. -
Nature
Evolution
Comb Jelly Genome Grows More Mysterious
The publication of the draft genetic sequence of a comb jelly reveals a nervous system like no other -
The Daily Climate
Energy & Sustainability
Loathed by Motorists, Loved by Fruit Trees, California's Tule Fog Fades Away
A 'dramatic' drop in California's iconic – and dense – winter fog has made driving safer -
Nature
Energy & Sustainability
San Francisco Is Due for a Seismic Shake-Up
A study of earthquake cycles suggests a coming period of greater seismic activity in the Bay Area in the coming decades -
Food Matters
Health
What if we all just stopped trying to lose weight? (video)
By focusing on weight, we may be missing the broader picture of what it means to be healthy. Brian Mattson is not the picture of health. Few would look at him and say: "There's a healthy fellow." But that's a shame, because Mattson is a pretty healthy guy. -
Reuters
Energy & Sustainability
Small U.S. City Leads Fight against Inland Flooding
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Running Ponies
Evolution
Pygmy Anteaters Look Like Small, Dusty Puppets Brought to Life
I heard you're looking for a new favourite animal. Look no further, this is your guy. At just 35 centimetres long – which includes a 20-cm-long tail – and weighing no more than 500 grams, the pygmy anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) is the smallest anteater on Earth. -
Reuters
Energy & Sustainability
Billionaire to Target 7 Midterm Candidates Who Get Climate Change
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Bring Science Home
More Science
Balloon Bounce: Watch Physics Happen in Slow-Mo
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Climatewire
Energy & Sustainability
Glacial Melt Pours Iron into Ocean, Seeding Algal Blooms
The iron fertilizer from glacier melt may help feed plankton blooms that, in turn, suck carbon dioxide out of the sky -
Scientific American Volume 310, Issue 6
Health
How Gut Bacteria Help Make Us Fat and Thin
Intestinal bacteria may help determine whether we are lean or obese -
Scientific American Mind Volume 25, Issue 3
Mind & Brain
Head Games
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60-Second Mind
Mind & Brain
Parents Who Support Corporal Punishment Do It a Lot
Thirty-three families allowed themselves to be recorded for up to six nights. Parents who said they supported corporal punishment did it often and with little provocation. Christie Nicholson reports
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60-Second Science
Mind & Brain
Don Corleone: Not a Nice Guy but No Psychopath
Mafiosi incarcerated in Italy scored lower than the threshold level for psychopathy on a standard test whereas half the run-of-the-mill inmates qualified as psychopaths. Allie Wilkinson reports
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TechMediaNetwork
Evolution
Jurassic Fossils Suggest Deep-Sea Origins of Marine Life
The 180-million-year-old fossils suggest that shallow-water animals may have originated from deep-sea ancestors
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