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Biggest Telescope Breaks Ground To Survey Space
The European Southern Observatory broke ground June 19th to build the world's largest telescope atop the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile. Clara Moskowitz reports.
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Anthrax Blunder Reveals Deadly Potential of Accidents
A lab director has reportedly been reassigned and other heads at the U.S. Center for Disease Control are likely to roll after an incident earlier this month in which at least 75 staff members may have accidentally been exposed to live samples of anthrax being transported from one lab to another. -
Climbing Mount Everest: Black Soot on White Snow
Editor's Note: This is the fifth and final post in a series by geologist Ulyana Horodyskyj. She climbed several peaks in the Himalaya Mountains to try to determine how airborne particles such as dust and soot that settle on massive glaciers alter how snow and ice melt, which could affect climate change as well as [...] -
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Mars Mission Could Return Samples to Earth by 2020
A private spacecraft is planned to skim through the atmosphere of Mars to gather dust and return home, without the difficulty of landing -
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Cool Kids Get Schooled With Age
Kids deemed cool in early adolescence have a poor chance to keep that status by their early twenties, because their behavior gets old. Erika Beras reports.
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Electronic Skin Is Setting the Stage for a Health Care Revolution
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Wildlife at Belize Resort Pushed by Travolta Could Have Trouble Stayin’ Alive
The A-list actor is promoting a proposed billionaire’s playground in Puerto Azul, complete with a private airport and racetrack, that could endanger the marine habitat -
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Fatal Toxins Found in "Edible" Wild Mushrooms
Chemists find two dangerous compounds in a wild mushroom eaten across Europe, and the chemicals could kill -
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Dinosaurs of the Arctic Thrived in Cold Darkness
Some 70 million years ago a group of hardy dinosaurs thrived in the harsh climate of what is now Alaska -
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DIY Alchemy: How to “Transmute” Copper into Brass [Excerpt]
In this at-home experiment re-create some of the processes ancient alchemists used to seemingly transform one element into another -
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Health
Autism Risk Higher Near Pesticide-Treated Fields
Babies whose moms lived within a mile of crops treated with widely used pesticides were more likely to develop autism, according to new research -
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Most of World's Population Will Breathe Stagnant, Sooty Air by 2099
The effects of climate change will slow air circulation around the world, a study finds -
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Mind & Brain
Body's Pain Perception Mapped for First Time
Our ability to pinpoint pain varies across the body, and in a specific pattern. Christie Nicholson reports
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Energy & Sustainability
Future Smog Looks More Persistent
Computer models show that increased levels of greenhouse gases, along with their trapped heat, will make the atmosphere more stagnant, leading to many more days of unhealthy air. David Biello reports.
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Big Waves in Jet Stream Mean Extreme Weather
Scientists pinpoint drivers of heat waves, droughts and flooding in a new study -
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Fact or Fiction?: Carrots Improve Your Vision
Can scarfing carrots really help you see better in the dark? -
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2, 4, 6, 8, What Does Not Associate?
Last month, I wrote about group theory via monkeys, and it got me thinking about the associative property. A mathematical group consists of a collection of stuff: integers, or rational numbers, or even something more abstract; and an operation that combines any two elements of your stuff into another element of stuff. -
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Tunes Could Bring Back Memories Lost to Alzheimer's
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It’s Frack, Baby, Frack, as Conventional Gas Drilling Declines [Infographic]
Hydraulic fracturing has offset dwindling traditional sources, but that trend may not last long -
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Decoding Mexico's City of Gods
Long cloaked in mystery, the ancient Teotihuacán culture is at last giving up its secrets
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