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What might have been be a standard academic fraud case is complicated by the fact that the scientist isn't just any chemist, she's a forensic chemist
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Getting the right weather conditions to launch may be one of the hardest parts of Felix Baumgartner's 23-mile sky dive
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Sources close to Armstrong have come forward admitting that not only did he dope, but he was at the center of the doping world
What if you never had to assemble another Malm again? Enter: the robots
A recent study suggested that women who are blonde and beautiful are less likely to get any sympathy from a jury
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Life expectancy, gender breakdown, and declining longevity, and interesting trivia abound
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Researchers teasing out the way food feels and interacts in our mouths say they've found out why wine and steak pair so well
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An ode to the poet, in four takes
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work that helped to figure out the functioning of cellular receptors
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A 15-week-old baby walrus rescued from Alaska arrives in New York City tomorrow
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Saudi Arabia is going green so that it can keep selling its oil
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74 percent of surveyed Americans think that global warming is changing the weather
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Scientists set out to measure how well we digest bone by swallowing a whole shrew, but was that really necessary?
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Perhaps Jack was just dumb for not climbing onto the raft
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Basically, most of what you think you know might be wrong
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The winning research centers around figuring out the way light behaves at a very fundamental level - a field called "quantum optics"
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Before Columbus made landfall in the New World 520 years ago today, glowing green worms engaged in a mating dance may have welcomed him first
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In this 10 minute test, you'll see 56 faces and names and try to remember as many as you can
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