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A new study finds that across cultures, time and space, we consistently see more violence as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes more erratic
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The world's cities are in the midst of a skyscraper boom. And one growing trend is to connect pre-fab floors like Lego pieces
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Watch as the popular crustacean gets snared by its predator's tentacles. Will it survive?
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Some tigers trek the human-filled landscape between nature preserves to find mates, but such opportunities to ensure genetic diversity are getting rarer
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Women who constantly binge on junk food while pregnant might pass their penchant for sweet and fatty food on to their children, a new study suggests
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Is a club where you train on walls while sensors track your body's performance just another fitness trend? Or is it real innovation?
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An engineer and an artist at Ohio University team up to create paints made of sludge extracted from streams near abandoned coal mines
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With the plans for a Yucca Mountain waste repository scrapped, scientists suggest that clay-rich rocks could permanently house spent nuclear fuel
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Studying nematodes as life leaves them may lead to insights into exactly how death travels through the body, and, perhaps, whether we can delay it
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Volker Steger photographs Nobel laureates posing with sketches of their breakthrough findings
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Watch the pandas munch bamboo on 24-hour live-stream cams at the Zoo and check out new video of Mei Xiang
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The Ramps and Pathways program encourages students to think like engineers before they've reached double digits
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Audio experiments show that the marine mammals each have their own whistle, and respond to hearing their distinct whistle by calling right back
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An artist-scientist duo shares nearly 100 images of modern art with a ghastly twist—they're all close-ups of human diseases and other ailments
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Overimbibing makes some people's brains shut down, for others, it gets the innovative juices flowing
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With so much interest in what's in our meals, food innovators are focusing on making the healthy palatable.
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Artist Ron Miller presents several scenarios—most of them scientifically plausible—of landscapes imperiled and of Earth meeting its demise
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Although their perception of color is limited, dogs discriminate between objects based on their hue--a finding that may change the way dogs are trained
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk thinks bullet trains are too slow and expensive. He says he has a better idea: high-speed travel in tubes
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When two stars recently collided, astronomers landed on a new theory about where gold and other heavy elements originate
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