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Lightning strikes near the U.S. Capitol building

New Research

Lightning Strikes Can Change Rocks' Atomic Structure

New research suggests that rock crystals melt under the intense force and heat of lightning

New Research

Cadavers Are Teaching Doctors to Be More Empathetic

By getting to know the person behind the cadaver, new doctors are honing the skills they'll use on living patients

New Research

Modern Life Could Be Making Dementia More Common

Dementia is affecting people more and earlier than ever before — but is pollution the culprit?

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The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

New Research

Dinosaurs May Have Lived (and Died) Among Ancient Daisies

<i>Triceratops</i> loves me, <i>Triceratops</i> loves me not...

Dense smoke rises as fire engines arrive at the blast site after the deadly explosions in Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China.

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It's Strangely Difficult to Measure Big Explosions

But is it time for a makeover?

A "kissing bug," the insect whose bite can transmit the parasite that causes Chagas disease

New Research

Why Infectious Tropical Diseases Are Returning to America

Climate, geography and economy are just a few risk factors

Female saiga at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Russia in 2009

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What Killed Over 134,000 Endangered Antelopes?

Experts are closer to an answer

Cool Finds

Why Coffee Makes Some People Poop

It's not the caffeine

Engineers at Cambridge University created a robot that could build and improve on other robots, in an artificial form of natural selection.

New Research

Watch a Robot Evolve

It's the mother of all robots

Acropora species, like those pictured above in Malaysia, seem to be targeted by a disease that destroys coral tissue.

New Research

A Mysterious Disease Is Killing Corals

Researchers still haven't cracked the mystery of "white syndrome"

Overwintering monarch butterflies

New Research

Scientists Are Still Baffled by Monarch Migration

When it comes to declining winter butterfly populations, something just doesn't add up

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Watch the Perseids Peak This Week

Summer's stunning meteor shower is sure to please stargazers

New Research

Modern Milk is Kind of Miraculous

...at least in the USA

Monique Hammerslag of the Dutch police force in Rotterdam with two of her recruits

Cool Finds

Inside a Dutch Police Academy...for Rats

Cigarette-sniffing rats are creating new job opportunities for their fellow rodents

What do this cat's pupils say about what it had for dinner?

New Research

How Do Animals Find Food? The Answer's in Their Eyes

Pupil shape provides differing advantages to those who crave the hunt and those who hide

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Russia Might Own the North Pole

Thanks to global warming, Russia has claimed a new ocean in the Arctic

Cool Finds

Teenage Girls Have Led Language Innovation for Centuries

They've been on the cutting edge of the English language since at least the 1500s

New Research

Search Engines Can Sway Undecided Voters

New research uncovers "the search engine effect" and its potential to influence election outcomes

New Research

Humans Evolved to Be Moved by Art

New research shows that while people respond to art for very different reasons, the ability to be moved in the first place is universal

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