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Or use the same material to catch wayward space trash
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Regardless of your starting IQ, mental function seems to increase or decrease depending on whether your job was challenging or menial
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There's not much to do while NASA goes through its pre-launch checks
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Utah has a new claim to fame: it was the site of the world's largest known landslide
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A wheeled Lego robot may not look like a worm, but it "thinks" like one after programmers gave it the neuron connections in a C. elegans roundworm
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A plan to clean up corpses failed due to lack of planning
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Researchers hope the finding sheds light on how organic molecules might have first arrived on Earth
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Your reward: a spot in a digital time capsule buried beneath the lunar surface
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Overfishing, overhunting and habitat loss drove many of the new additions
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The excavation of a 5,000 year old city on the Turkey-Syrian border continues despite nearby presence of the Islamic State extremists
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The major pathway in the brain wasn’t exactly missing, but science literature appeared to have forgotten about it until now
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The search for achievement and meaning at the end of a decade increases suicide and cheating, too
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Strong magnets can repel at least 300 lbs of force, preventing heads from colliding
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A German company is installing servers in homes and offices to recycle heat
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The parasite is usually associated with Latin and South America, but was recently found throughout Louisiana, too
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An underground network can be used for friendly communication—or for evil
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This isn’t the first time a fur seal has attempted to copulate with a king penguin and scientists think that more seals are learning the behavior
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People are slaves in every one of the 167 countries investigated in a new report, including the United States
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It all comes down to the foam
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Like pets, wires and chips can appear to act with intention
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