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Grain has a lot to do with it
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Not all winter phenomena are problems
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Being too involved or not involved enough in middle-aged kids' lives can cause parents to become depressed
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You can tell a whole lot about the score from the wrinkles on a forehead, the slouch of shoulders and the jittering of hands
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The more afraid of spiders you are, the bigger they seem to be
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Over the past twenty years, cases of the MERS virus might have gone undetected in infected humans
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A tiny zircon from western Australia is 4.4 billion years old
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One day, we could have muscles made of fishing line in our own bodies, too
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There's some connection between cat bites and mental illness—it's just not clear what it is
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When the floods begin, the entire colony does its part in forming a living, floating mass, placing the queen at the protective center
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New research suggests that it’s not that immigrants have higher rates of schizophrenia, but rather that our tests for schizophrenia are biased
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In the animal kingdom, only primates, dogs and smart birds like ravens were previously known to do this
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Breadcrumb sponges show how Earth's first animals may have got by with barely any oxygen
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Why people dream is still a mystery, however
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People who suffer from loneliness were almost twice as likely to die over a six year study period than others
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Paint fades over time, but scientific analysis can help reconstruct the original
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Researchers are trying to figure out whether dinosaurs combined feces and urine or not
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Native Inuits who eat Beluga whales risk infection if the meat is not thoroughly disinfected by cooking
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Wisdom is 63, and this is thought to be her 35th-or-so chick
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Is there a universally perfect working temperature? Probably not, and trying to find it might be a wild goose chase
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