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A new study shows that black garden ants have a relatively meticulous protocol for when nature calls
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A Madagascar cave is packed with the bones of extinct species
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The lights fool human brains and camera eyes
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The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed
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New approach offers “vaccine-like” protection against HIV
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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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Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel
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A huge deposit of manganese nodules beneath the Atlantic might be a potential source of highly prized rare earth metals
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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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The recovery of a tiny fish signals good news for area waterways and proof that, when heeded, protective measures can make a difference
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Special video effects shows more than an hours worth of seagull flight as curling paths
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Warm weather has drawn at least one bear out of hibernation and in search of food
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New study uses “synthetic fossils” to store data for the ages
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Genuine Pollacks really are distinguishable from random splatters of paint—there's now software to prove it
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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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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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Scientists hope the rebooted Large Hadron Collider could find supersymmetric particles—the next frontier of particle physics
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Four baby stars, still gestating in their parental gas cloud, move together - for now at least
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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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