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This Poor Chicken Got Eaten by a Cow

Herbivores don't always stick to their diet

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A Fully Vaccinated Woman Contracted And Then Spread the Measles

This is the first time health officials have encountered a Typhoid Mary-like situation for measles

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Mid-Day Naps Can Be a Sign of Bad Health

People who frequently take naps tend to die younger than those who don't, according to a new study

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The American Dream Doesn’t Mean the Same Thing to White People And Minorities

While many see the American Dream including a home, not everybody thinks about that home the same way

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In Need of a New Nostril? Scientists Can Grow One From Your Cartilage

Researchers in Switzerland just performed the first reconstructive nasal surgery using lab-grown cartilage

On some level, babies remember the things you do to them.

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We Remember People We Met as Babies, Even If We Don't Remember Being Babies

Babies can subconsciously remember people they've met, even if they don't remember meeting them

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Ice-Age Bees Uncovered at the La Brea Tar Pits

The samples were actually excavated back in 1970, but were set aside because there wasn't a way to analyze them at the time

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Walmart's About to Do for Organic Food What It Did for Every Other Consumer Product

Walmart's going to give organic food a big push

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Oldest Fossilized Heart Found…It Belonged to A Shrimp

Researchers found the oldest-known cardiovascular system in a fossilized “shrimp-like” anima

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It Is Possible for Grandmas to Overindulge on Time With Their Grandkids

One day with the kids is boon to cognitive performance, but five days is draining

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Sea Otters Can Get the Human Flu

Scientists have no idea how the otters contracted the H1N1 virus, however

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide as reconstructed for the past 800,000 years.

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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Is Now at Its Highest Point in Human Existence

The air hasn't been so full of carbon dioxide in, at least, the past 800,000 years

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Scientists Convince a Mouse's Organ to Roll Back Its Own Aging

By triggering the expression of a specific gene, the mouse's thymus reversed its aging

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When Evolution's Controversial, Declaring a State Fossil Can Get Tricky

The Columbian Mammoth gets caught in the crossfire of the culture wars

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Lawyers Who Make Less Money And Get Worse Grades Are the Happiest

Money can't buy you happiness, even if you're a lawyer

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This Winter Was Hard on Animals, Too

As tough as it was on humans, it may have been even harder on the animals who don’t get to curl up in front of the fire

The Midwest aglow with a visualization of photosynthetic fluorescence.

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Under the Summer Sun, the Corn Belt Is the Most Biologically Productive Place on Earth

During the peak growing season, the corn belt outproduces the Amazon

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Playing Video Games Could Actually Change Your Brain—But Not in a Bad Way

Despite video games' bad rep, they might improve a person's strategizing and multi-tasking abilities

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Nearly Half of Americans Believe At Least One Conspiracy Theory

William S. Burroughs once said, “Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.”

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This Rare Footage Shows Two Live 15-Foot-Long Oarfish Swimming in the Ocean

Two very shy oarfish were seen swimming near the shoreline in Mexico

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