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Oyster larvae find their homes by responding to the unique sounds of a reef
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If you've been begrudgingly giving foot massages, you might want to check with your partner to see if they actually like them
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Leftover mercury will continue to flush through the environment, eventually making its way into the San Francisco bay, for the next 10,000 years
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Reindeers' wintery blue eyes are about 1,000 times more sensitive to light than their summery gold ones
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The condition is almost always accompanied by tactile hallucinations of crawling sensations and visual hallucinations of the non-existent insects
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Around 60 million years ago, our primate ancestors figured out that the sight of a snake meant trouble
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A big data project to connect all the people
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The researchers found that the people with synesthesia seem to go into more of a trance during sex than those without
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Since they're already going to the flowers anyway, why not give them some pesticides to carry?
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Given math's applicability to everything in our world and beyond, it's not so far fetched to think that a theory of everything really does exist
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New research shows that animals trapped in the tar would linger for months on end
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This might seem like an obvious question, but it turns out that no one has looked into it until now
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Hibernation tends to go hand-in-hand with cold temperatures, but the greater mouse-tailed bat hibernates at a comfortable 68-degrees Fahrenheit
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Some early Americans came not from Asia, it seems, but by way of Europe
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When they get stressed by the heat, coral make their own shade by releasing a chemical that helps clouds form
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You know that your body is made of cells - but just how many? Turns out that question isn't all that easy to answer
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It's a good thing that science is here to figure out the exact perfect way to drink a cup of coffee
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Whether or not the remipede venom would have any effect on a curious diver poking at the tiny creature, however, remains unknown
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More than you ever thought you needed to know about the physics of erupting beer bottles
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If the Amazon continues to dry at just half the pace as it has over the past 30 years, yearly drought will become the new norm by the end of this century
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