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Geckos take advantage of van der Waals forces to run across ceilings, but a simple shift allows them to drop to the ground
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Geneticists are working to circumvent the tomato's circadian rhythm
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Three major weaknesses make traffic lights used in almost all U.S. states prone to attacks
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The biggest meta-analysis of research to date indicates that practice does not make perfect
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NASA wants your help identifying astronauts' photos of the earth
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A quickly carved river gorge may disappear in just a few decades
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It looks like another one of Iceland's volcanoes is ready to erupt
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NEPTUNE is used for hunting whale songs, but Canada and the US worry it could be used for other purposes
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A new technique may help during the next oil spill
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Modern-day velvet worms' jaws are repurposed former claws
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Bloomberg reports that customers are abandoning Colgate's Total brand because it contains triclosan
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In some ways, our 80-year-old selves mirror our 20-year-old selves
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The five year state of the reef reports paints a gloomy picture for the natural wonder
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These underwater habitats are important for several species of sea life
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The Fields Medal is mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize
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This neat invertebrate trick could help researchers eventually figure out how to do the same for human cells
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Small supplies of the drug bring up a whole host of other ethical dilemmas
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In addition to teaching us more about kitties themselves, the cat genome could shed light on human disease
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