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Of the nine possible sodium ion channels the centipede venom could have affected, it happened to correspond with just the right one for numbing pain
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These new robots can chew up nearly a ton of jellyfish per hour
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We hear it goes great with cheese
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In the movie Fly Away home that involved a goose shaped plane, but in the wild it's just a few flicks of the neck.
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Brandon Todd spent years training to be able to dunk, putting on 80 pounds of muscle and increasing his vertical to 45 inches
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Depending on a person's age and the robot's job, people feel differently about what the robot should look like
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A new device uses heat from any fire to produce electricity
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While the rise of agriculture allowed human populations to blossom, it also opened the door for catastrophic collapses
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The brown hyena who originally planted the evidence most likely ate the person, though it could have scavenged on a dead body
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A lot of things sing to mark their territory - birds, wolves, howler monkeys. But you can now add mice to that list
A massive earthquake last week created a new island off the coast of Pakistan
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Clancy authored more than 20 books and his final novel, Command Authority, is scheduled for release on December 3
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This new discovery fills in a gap in that chemical line-up, though experts suspect that many more molecular surprises await
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Forget iPads, if you want a long lasting toy stick with blocks
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Perhaps the lack of fish food even explains the orientation of Easter Island's famous statues, which face inwards toward the islanders' food source
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Pilots will have to wear hearing protection along with a helmet, neck restraints, boots and a fireproof suit
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Proto Indo-European is thought to be the precursor to many Indian, Asian and European languages
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Researchers are trying to culture what comes out of blowholes from whales and dolphins, to see if they can use them as diagnostic tools
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Desomorphine, a cleaner form of the drug, was first concocted by the U.S. in the 1930s as a potential morphine substitute
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In A.D. 1257 a massive volcano erupted, spreading ash all over the world. The problem is that scientists have no idea where the eruption happened
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