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See Shipping Traffic Move Through Straits Around the World

A visualization shows a week’s worth of vessel movement

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Amsterdam Is Out of Bike Parking

The city will create 40,000 new bike parking spaces by 2030

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Save the Birds By Embarrassing Your Cat

Outfitting cats in colorful collars may be one key to preventing them from effectively preying on birds and other small animals

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Is That Pill a Placebo? This Program Can Tell, Even If You Can't

A new algorithm could make it faster and less expensive to develop new painkillers

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LED Skylights Perfectly Mimic Natural Sunlight

The lights fool human brains and camera eyes

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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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Only 1 in 4 Americans Would Take a Free Space Flight

Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel

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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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Is DNA the Solution for Permanent Data Storage?

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

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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

"From two to three hours after or before eating a full meal, is the proper time for this business."

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19th-Century Sexual Advice: No Sex Before Meals

The rest of the tips are even farther from any sort of modern scientific basis

Not the new self-driving car

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Britain’s First Driverless Car Stays on the Sidewalk

The car's 15 mile-per-hour speed limit keeps things safe

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Jailing People Has Little Effect on Crime Levels

At some point, the data indicates, more people in prison doesn’t translate to fewer crimes

Black holes create and destroy galaxies, like this spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado.

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Technology from ‘Interstellar’ Could Be Useful to Scientists, Too

The movie’s visual effects are now being used for scientific research

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Hypnotize Yourself With a Record-Breaking Traditional Dance

This synchronized dance won a group of 5,211 Indian women a Guinness World Record

Don't hate eggs because of the cholesterol in their yolks

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New Guidelines on Cholesterol: Eggs Are Ok, Butter's Still Bad

Experts have long pushed for the change since for most, cholesterol isn't the demon we thought it was

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Farm Animals Could Soon Carry Wi-Fi

In a few years, shepherds might be monitoring their flocks with networks of wireless sensors

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Now for Sale: Straw Houses

One new technique for green building—making houses out of straw—actually draws on century-old ideas

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These Bells Play Seismic Shifts

Watch as UC Berkeley’s bells play the earth’s “natural frequencies”

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Here’s How to Build an Igloo

Scratch your chilly construction itch

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