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People ascribe different personality traits to cats of different colors, a bias that skews adoption rates
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Songs have a long history of helping us learn things
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The next time you see a little fern out in the wild, it may just be a Gaga
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A beautiful, zoomable, nine-gixapixel photo of the central Milky Way
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The New England Journal of Medicine recently posted this horror-inducing video of ear mites crawling around in some poor 70-year-old man's ear
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New research says it's not really possible for straight guys and gals to ever be "just friends"
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Espresso is widely misunderstood and hard to define
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Climate change was conspicuously missing from this season's presidential debates, the first time the topic has not come up since 1988
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Beluga whales can vocalize in a way remarkably close to human speech, according to new observations
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NASA needs your help naming its new research facility
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Most Americans between 16 - 29 still use the library to get books—real, paper books
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Those concussions have hurtled this game to the forefront of the ongoing debate surrounding kids and football
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A few bouts of angst written by Darwin reveal that no one is immune to the blues
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Here are the best scale visualizations out there, starting with the classic Powers of Ten video that melted the faces of everyone alive in 1977
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For 13 years, journalist David Walsh pursued his theory that Lance was doping, but the USDA's recent announcement finally vindicated his long-held beliefs with hard evidence
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Six scientists and one former government official will do time for failing to accurately convey the risk of an earthquake
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Men and women haven't agreed in three elections: 1996, 2000 and 2004
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Leon Jaroff and Paul Kurtz both died this weekend. Together, the two men represent some of the founding ideas of the modern skeptic community
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Charli, already a renowned soccer player, is now a slick dancer
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The best ideas would do terribly in focus groups, says designer Gianfranco Zaccai, because people don't know that they're going to like new things
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