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Melting permafrost can change the land in really strange—and sometimes dangerous—ways
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Moose may use their antifungal saliva to keep the fungus on their favorite foods in check
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Just like a fiber optic cable, without the physical cable
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Exposure to the great outdoors could also influence kids' ideas about the importance of conservation
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Adults around the world uniformly clean their plates at dinner time, but not kids
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If father mongooses push themselves to extremes raising young, then they won't work as hard the next time around
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Officials in China are taking dramatic precautions to ensure the disease doesn't spread
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Our notion of cuteness might be hardwired rather than learned
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A massive emergence of mayflies has blanketed parts of the country
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Wind farms could intentionally be fashioned into artificial reefs to further increase their value to wildlife
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Porous rock created by high impact meteorite strikes make a surprisingly pleasant home for microbes
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Contrary to what researchers previously feared, men who undergo adult circumcision don't engage in overly risky behavior compared to uncircumcised ones
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Microbes digest tossed food, belch up electricity-generating methane
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It's not all about the planet's distance from its star, as researchers previously thought
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Female trainees are particularly vulnerable
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Grand Rapids, Michigan, is basically enveloped in a cloud of stink
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As if catching a comet wasn't already hard enough
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The gene could also, theoretically, be modified in humans to prevent some of the effects of booze
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