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A Single Smelly Compound Sparks Carnivores' Lust for Blood

When given scented wooden blocks soaked in this single chemical, captive carnivores go wild

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How Cats Transformed From Wild Animals to Cuddly Companions

Genetically, there's not that much separating feline pets from jungle beasts

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Tomorrow, a Man-made Spacecraft Will Land On a Comet for the First Time, Ever

The action starts bright and early

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Can’t Clap to the Beat? You Might be Beat-Deaf

For some people, tapping their foot to the beat is a challenge at a fundamental level

Prehistoric cave painting of a steppe bison from Altamira, Spain

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Researchers Are Examining a 9,000-Year-Old Bison Mummy

The well-mummified specimen of a steppe bison, a now-extinct species that lived in the Ice Age, has intact organs

Performers in "Multiverse" during the opening of a 2010 art festival in Kiev

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What If There Are Parallel Universes Jostling Ours?

It could explain a lot of weird, quantum physics

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Large Dinosaurs Had a Nesting Strategy to Avoid Breaking Eggs

Oviaptorosaurs likely kept their eggs in open nests—more like bird than crocodiles—but needed to arrange their eggs carefully

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Scientists Figured Out How to Make People "Feel" an Otherworldly Presence

Feeling like a ghost or an angel is near is likely caused by a blip in how our brain processes self awareness and our sense of place in space

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Arctic Squirrels Use Steroids to Bulk Up But Don’t Suffer the Consequences

Fat alone couldn’t get these squirrels through hibernation in burrows that get almost as chilly as -10 degrees Fahrenheit

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The Foolproof Way to Fix a Wobbly Table

Solving life's challenges one at a time—with math!

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The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk

A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris

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Even Climate Scientists Are Getting Depressed by Our Lack of Progress

Anxiety about the changing environment isn’t just affecting you and professionals are working to understand it

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Humans Outnumber Rats in NYC

There's actually about one rat for every four people

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What Happens When Western And Traditional Chinese Medicine Merge

These two treatment philosophies were previously seen as being diametrically opposed, but some experts think the systems can complement each another

Village clearings deep in the Peruvian Amazon, as spotted by a satellite.

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Should We Use Satellites to Keep an Eye on Remote Amazonian Tribes?

Satellite monitoring could help keep tabs on indigenous people without invasive visits to their remote homes

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Scratching an Itch Soothes, But Then Your Brain Makes it Worse

Pain overrides itchiness temporarily but neurotransmitters released to cope with that pain reactivate the itch neurons

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Left-Handed People Have Less Specialized Brains

Diversity means flexibility, even if being left-handed can be super annoying

Admire Rakti exercises on November 3rd, getting set for the fatal race.

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A Horse Racing Favorite Died Minutes After Completing the Melbourne Cup

Admire Rakti wasn't even the only horse to die at the races

A Siberian musk deer two-month old stands next to his father at the Edinburgh zoo — they are closely related to the species just spotted

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Fanged Deer Not Extinct, Still Roaming the Mountains of Afghanistan

The Kashmir musk deer was last spotted in 1948 but now researchers report five recent sightings

A scene from Uma Nagendra's prize-winning dance about how tornadoes affect ecosystems.

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Get Down With This Year’s "Dance Your PhD" Winners

Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year's favorites

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