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A new study indicates that roughly half become habituated to the smell of DEET over time, reducing its effectiveness as a repellent
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Making healthy foods like tomatoes more palatable may increase our desire to eat these foods while decreasing our gravitation towards sugary snacks
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Advertisers love to use futurism as a way to position their products as forward-thinking
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Macrophotographer Thomas Shahan takes portraits of spiders and insects in the hopes of turning your revulsion of the creatures into reverence
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Life in this legendary town in Ecuador's Valley of Longevity may be too good—and too long—to be true
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Scientists use computer simulations to test how geographic features help create intense snowstorms that blanket cities near lake shores with snow
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Everything from parrots to gossipy novels influenced art in Japan between 1603 to 1868
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And you think you're having a bad work week, just think about the robots
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More and more, amateurs are contributing to the discovery of new species, especially of insects - but can they keep ahead of the extinction curve?
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This week, watch films by American Indian youths, see Academy Award-winner "The Artist" and snap your fingers to some world-class jazz
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Finally, women could breathe deeply when the waist-nipping corset went out of style
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The more salt we eat, the more we crave. This new approach to less-salty cooking might help you step off the treadmill
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Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children?
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Last week's close encounters with space rocks have raised concerns about how we deal with dangerous asteroids. Here's how we would try to knock them off course.
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A video captures images of thousands of spiders raining down on a Brazilian town, but it turns out this event is perfectly normal
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There are more than 14 billion pages on the web, but they are linked by hyperconnected nodes, like Hollywood actors connected through Kevin Bacon
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Do you know which president liked to skinny dip in the Potomac or who had the first pet cat in the White House?
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Drought and over-pumping has led to groundwater losses in the Middle East that equal almost the entire volume of the Dead Sea, a new study shows.
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The government can't get their hands on you when you're floating above Earth
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Across Asia, a plague of hunting has hit pangolins, though it's not too late to save these intriguing creatures from extinction
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