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New Type of More Problematic Mosquito-Borne Illness Detected in Brazil
A second form of the painful chikungunya virus has appeared in Brazil—one that could more easily spread, including to the U.S. -
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Higgs Hunter Will be CERN's First Female Director
Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti will take the reins at the European physics powerhouse in 2016 -
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Science in a Republican Senate: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Republican Party is widely predicted to win control of the Senate as a result of today's midterm elections. In broadstrokes, that outcome portends a green light for the Keystone XL Pipeline, a blow to the Affordable Care Act and a push for corporate tax reform. -
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New Jersey Retreats from Rivers But Not Coast After Superstorm
Homes along rivers are being bought out under a new program but not homes on the seashore -
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5 Unsolved Space Mysteries - The Countdown #26
The Countdown is a biweekly video show highlighting the top space news stories. In this special episode, we countdown five space mysteries that astronomers have yet to solve. -
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Wreck of 17th-Century Dutch Warship Discovered
"Everybody dies, and every ship sinks" is the abbreviated story of the battle in which the Huis de Kreuningen was lost. Archaeologists believe they've now found it -
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Timeline of Antares Rocket Explosion Is Pieced Together
Orbital Science's investigation of its rocket's catastrophic failure 15 seconds after launch last week is still underway -
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The Worst Climate Pollution Is Carbon Dioxide
CO2 outranks soot, methane and even hydrofluorocarbons in terms of long-term global warming -
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Acrobats, Mayo Addicts and Drones Win the 2014 “Dance Your PhD” Contest
It's a science competition like no other. Acrobats, their faces painted forest green, artfully ascend hanging ropes, twirling away from tumbling pathogens. -
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New Experiment Aims to Crack Neutrino Mass Mystery
These particles should not have mass, but they do. By sending neutrinos through the ground from Illinois to Minnesota, physicists hope to learn why
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Gene-Hoarding Shrub Puzzles Biologists
Foreign mitochondrial genes outnumber the Amborella plant’s own six to one -
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Ultraprecise Clocks Approach Chronometry’s Final Frontier
Atomic clocks are shrinking to microchip size, heading for space—and approaching the limits of useful precision -
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Legal Marijuana Gets Major Test in Oregon, Alaska, and D.C. Ballots
(Reuters) - Voters in the U.S. capital and two West Coast states will decide on Tuesday during national midterm elections whether to legalize marijuana in a test for broader cannabis legalization efforts across the United States. -
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The Philosophical Implications of the Urge to Urinate
The state of our body affects how we think the world works -
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World Health Organization Recommends Naloxone to Prevent 20,000 Overdose Deaths in U.S.
More than 20,000 deaths might be prevented every year in the United States alone if naloxone, used to counter drug overdoses, was more widely available, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. -
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The Case for Kill Switches in Military Weaponry
Smart technology might have disarmed ISIS without bombs or bullets -
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More than 40 percent of China's Arable Land Degraded
More than 40 percent of China's arable land is suffering from degradation, official news agency Xinhua said, reducing its capacity to produce food for the world's biggest population. -
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Obama Declares Hawaiian Lava Flow to Be Major Disaster
The President on Monday declared a slow-moving lava flow from the Pu'u O'o vent of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii to be a major disaster -
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Comet Reeks of Cat Crap and Rotten Eggs
The Rosetta spacecraft has unexpectedly detected hydrogen sulphide and ammonia coming from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Lee Billings reports
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Medieval Witch Hunts Influenced by Climate Change
August 3, 1562 a devastating thunderstorm hit central Europe, damaging buildings, killing animals and destroying crops and vineyards. The havoc caused by this natural disaster was so great, so unprecedented, that soon an unnatural origin for the storm was proposed.
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