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New research finds that one out of four science educators in the U.S. and Canada released lab animals into the wild after they were done using them in the classroom, introducing a surprising but potentially serious pathway for invasives to take hold in new locales.
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Everyone likes to complain that we're using too many exclamation points these days. Here's where the punctuation came from.
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Science provides an answer on what details in an urban street scene clue people in on what city it is from.
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Unearthed from a site near modern day St. Louis, Missouri, archaeologists found tea residue in pottery beakers that dates back to as early as 1050 A.D.
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Though plains bison are icons of America's cowboy past and rugged West, research findings show that most of the buffalo have cow ancestors from the 1800s
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Martin Fleischmann, who in 1989 claimed to have discovered cold fusion, died in his home in England on Friday, August 3rd, following a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
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In Brooklyn, you can drink beer while you do just about anything at some themed bar. Shuffleboard, darts, pool, mini-golf, horror movies, steampunk, old school arcade games; you name it and you can find it. And now the hipsters have an unlikely ally: Rubik’s cube obsessives. Together, this not-so-odd couple is bringing back the games [...]
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In a lectures series for children, Carl Sagan educates us all on the history and exploration of Mars.
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Olympic synchronized swimmers get a lot of flack for their wacky sport - but while it is weird, it's also really hard.
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Singapore's "unbelievably low birthrates" have inspired "National Night," a campaign to encourage Singaporean couples to "let their patriotism explode" on August 9.
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In 2010, $607 million dollars worth of small and light arms left the United States, headed to buyers around the world
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Though much of the physics behind rainbows is still cloaked in colorful mystery, researchers have at last unlocked some of the secrets behind the peculiar optics of the twinned rainbow.
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Good news on the illegal wildlife trade front: a new forensic genetics tool allows scientists to pinpoint where seized illegal ivory originates
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People often think their sarcasm is obvious, while receivers aren't always so quick to get the joke.
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Lovell, of the Lovell telescope, made several advances in radio astronomy and physics.
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Deep underground in southern Italy, just outside the city of Naples, the Campi Flegrei supervolcano has been resting for the past 500 years
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On a wooden raft two kittens (and three sailors) traveled from Canada to Cornwall
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New research shows that, unlike most animals, many adult humans continue to engage in playful behavior well into their summer and autumn years, and that this fun-loving attitude may help them score big when it comes to the opposite sex.
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The Arctic is melting,
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