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LED Skylights Perfectly Mimic Natural Sunlight

The lights fool human brains and camera eyes

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Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk As Nature’s Strongest Material

The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed

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Found: A New Tool in the Fight Against HIV

New approach offers “vaccine-like” protection against HIV

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How “Learned Deafness” Might be Letting Noise Pollution Win

The world may be noisier than ever but one scientist warns that our attempts to blot out the sound may cost us dearly

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Only 1 in 4 Americans Would Take a Free Space Flight

Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel

A cross section of a polymetalic deep sea nodule of manganese and cobalt discovered on a previous expedition.

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An Underwater Field of Weird Metal Balls Is a Key to Both Past And Future

A huge deposit of manganese nodules beneath the Atlantic might be a potential source of highly prized rare earth metals

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This Teeny Chair Can Assemble Itself

A tiny prototype developed at MIT marks one of the first steps into a world where we’ll never need an Allen wrench again

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Finally, the First Fish Ever Is Taken Off the Endangered Species List

The recovery of a tiny fish signals good news for area waterways and proof that, when heeded, protective measures can make a difference

These fragmented black lines are actually seagulls flying

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See the Swoops of Seagulls’ Flight Patterns

Special video effects shows more than an hours worth of seagull flight as curling paths

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Grizzlies in Yellowstone Are Already Waking Up

Warm weather has drawn at least one bear out of hibernation and in search of food

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Is DNA the Solution for Permanent Data Storage?

New study uses “synthetic fossils” to store data for the ages

A visitor to MoMA views Jackson Pollock's painting "One (Number 31, 1950)"

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A Computer Can Tell Real Jackson Pollocks From Fakes

Genuine Pollacks really are distinguishable from random splatters of paint—there's now software to prove it

A view from São Paolo's depleted Cantareira Reservoir.

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São Paulo is Running Low on Water

What will happen when Brazil’s taps go dry?

The common ancestor of this Gentoo penguin likely evolved to be incapable of tasting most flavors—but why?

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The Cold May Have Cost Penguins Most of Their Taste Buds

Recent genetic analysis shows that penguins can’t taste sweet or bitter, and scientists think sub-zero temps may be to blame

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The Inventor Who Has Developed a Sweet-Smelling "Fart Pill"

One eccentric French man wants to take the guilt out of gas with a tablet designed to make farts smell like flowers, ginger or chocolate

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Is Our Universe Supersymmetric?

Scientists hope the rebooted Large Hadron Collider could find supersymmetric particles—the next frontier of particle physics

An artist’s interpretation of the star quartet — as a young star and three gas condensations on the left and as star siblings on the right.

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Stars Have Womb Siblings

Four baby stars, still gestating in their parental gas cloud, move together - for now at least

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Get Ready for a Taste of the Byzantine Empire’s Favorite Wine

Scientists hope the discovery of 1,500-year-old grape seeds may help resurrect the historically famous “Wine of the Negev”

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'Presidents’ Day' Doesn't Actually Exist

Despite what furniture stores and car dealerships tell you, officially, we’re really just celebrating George Washington’s birthday

A slave cabin at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Virginia.

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George Washington Used Legal Loopholes to Avoid Freeing His Slaves

One of his slaves fled to New Hampshire to escape becoming a wedding present

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