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What an Aggressive Dog Says About its Owner
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Deep-Sea Dive Picks Up Up Extreme-Living Stowaways

Device May Let Humans Communicate With Dolphins

Babies Know What's Boring, Study Finds

Octopus Foils Predators by Stealing Identities

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In Photos: How Babies Learn

An image of a parasitic wasp that uses other ants to care for its eggs.

Colorful Characters: Top 10 Species of 2012

Scientists excavate an abelisaurid dinosaur in Patagonia.

Image Gallery: Tiny-Armed Dinosaurs

Due to a lack of blood vessels and other characteristics, cartilage heals very slowly. One way to accelerate natural cartilage repair and growth is to use tissue engineering, or the artificially-stimulated production of functional replacement tissue. The

Gallery: The Art in Biomedical Research

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The Colombian Glacier in a false-color image captured by Landsat 5 on May 30, 2011.

Brilliant Color Flows From Glacier

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Famous Fangs: Tales of Our Favorite Vampires

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In an historic demographic shift, white babies are now in the minority compared with nonwhite newborns.

Minority Babies Outnumber White Babies in US (Infographic)

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The Veil Nebula: Segment 3

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Space

Mars rock from the Tissint meteorite fall

Mystery of Martian Meteorites' Organic Stuff So...

Organic molecules in Mars meteorites did not originate in alien microbes.
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This Ankylosaurid skull is among the fossils auctioned on Sunday that paleontologists suspect were taken illegally from Mongolia.

Beyond the Tyrannosaur: Other Auction Specimens...

Although the tyrannosaur made news, other fossils sold at auction may also have been looted.
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Health

This is an image of a cross-section through a seminiferous tubule, where sperm is made. The cells in green are the supporting cells (containing Katnal1), the red cells are developing sperm.

Infertility Genes Could Lead to Male Contraception

Knowing more about what makes men fertile can also help fight infertility.
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Warming has allowed the brown argus butterfly to rapidly expand its range in England and Wales.

Climate Warming Helps British Butterfly Spread

The brown argus butterfly has expanded its range rapidly in recent years.
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Startups Root for Cheaper Peeks at Scientific P...

A new petition asks to make taxpayer-funded research free to everyone to read. Startups and small busi...
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Caveman Flutists? First Instruments Date Back 4...

Bone flutes would have brought music to ancient humans.
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Are You Frustrated? Bet Your Smiling Says MIT Study | Video

Are You Frustrated? Bet Your Smiling Says MIT S...

According to a study done by MIT, most people smile when frustrated. They have gone on to create a computer program to differentiate between happy smiles and frustrated smiles. This research is done in part ...

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Earthquake: What Does 'Magnitude' Mean? | Video

Earthquake: What Does 'Magnitude...

We’ve all heard earthquakes described in terms ...

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Birth of a Giant Iceberg – Unprecedented Aerial View | Video

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An enormous plain of Antarctic ice is splitting...

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World’s Rarest Gorilla Caught on Film | Video

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Harvard economist Alvin Roth is a matchmaker but he’s not finding love – he’s finding kidneys! With support from the NSF, he and his team have developed a suite of computer programs that match living kidney donors with recipients.

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Harvard economist Alvin Roth is a matchmaker bu...

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Robotic Sharks Deciphering How the Jaws of the Ocean Swim | Video

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Micro and nano-scale packages for medicines and machinery are hard to make. Engineers and mathematicians show that higher order polyhedra can fold up and deploy on their own even done at molecular sizes.

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Micro and nano-scale packages for medicines and...

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From 2000 to 2010, NASA’s Terra satellite measured a 1% drop in cloud height. This could be a naturally occurring defense against global warming. But the study’s period is too short to know for sure, so NASA will measure for at least 10 more years.

Are Lowering Clouds Countering C...

From 2000 to 2010, NASA’s Terra satellite measu...

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How Exactly Did Titanic Sink? - With James Cameron | Video

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Panda Mating Dance – Lesson's Needed? | Video

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The male and female giant pandas at Scotland’s ...

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