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Top 5 Mysteries of the MoonPonder these five lunar mysteries while you're gazing at the big and beautiful supermoon this Saturday night.
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Science Fiction or Fact: Will Tractor Beams Ever Become Reality?Need to reign in an enemy spaceship? Fire up the tractor beam.
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Science Fiction or Fact: Humanlike Intelligent Machines Will Soon ExistNo sci-fi story is complete without an android, but is our tech really heading that direction?
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Science Fiction or Fact: Is Time Travel Possible?Is time travel as simple as building a flux capacitor?
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Science Fiction or Fact: Sentient Living Planets ExistDo giant living planets like Mogo and Pandora have any place in reality?
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Science Fiction or Fact: ET Will Look Like UsPop culture commonly depicts aliens as looking like humans. But is that body plan realistic?
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Science Fiction or Fact: Will Space Battles Be Fought with Laser Weapons?Any good sci-fi hero uses a laser blaster, but how realistic are these weapons?
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Science Fiction or Fact: Is Faster-Than-Light Travel Possible?Will humans ever achieve the super speedy space travel seen in movies?
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Science Fiction or Fact: Could a 'Robopocalypse' Wipe Out Humans?If Hollywood has it right, machines will one day kill all humans.
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Science Fiction or Fact: Is Wormhole Space Travel Possible?Is it really possible to send objects through these spacetime phenomena?
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Tip of the Tongue: The 7 (Other) Flavors Humans May TasteSeven candidates for a sixth basic taste.
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Tip of the tongue: Humans may taste at least 6 flavors
Seven candidates for a sixth basic taste.
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Life's Extremes: Pathological Liar vs. Straight ShooterWhile some can't seem to speak without telling a lie, others stand true to brutal honesty.
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Life's Extremes: Atheists vs. BelieversNature and nurture play roles in where a person ends up on this spectrum.
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NBA Lockout Could Put Players at Risk of Injury, Expert SaysA shortened preseason could make NBA players more susceptible to injuries.
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Life's Extremes: Supertaster vs. NontasterIf you add lots of cream and sugar to coffee you may be a supertaster.
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Life's Extremes: Leaders vs. FollowersSome people are born to be in charge.
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Life's Extremes: Left- vs. Right-HandedYour handedness has a lot to do with how your brain operates.
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Life's Extremes: Math vs. LanguageSome of us have a knack in math while others have stellar verbal skills.
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Life's Extremes: Smart vs. DumbWhy some people are geniuses and others eggheads boggle even the greatest minds.
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Eat the Old: Could Mass Cannibalism Solve a Future Food Shortage?A real-life "Soylent Green" would be disastrous for humans.
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Life's Extremes: Tightwads vs. SpendthriftsDoes money burn a hole in your pocket? Here's why.
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Life's Extremes: Monogamy vs. PolygamyHere's a look at why some people are more promiscuous than others.
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Life's Extremes: Early Birds vs. Night OwlsOnly 1 percent of the population is truly considered an early bird.
