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Can Lip Balm Make Your Chapped Lips Worse?Dry, chapped lips are itchy and painful, but repeatedly applying lip balms and products may not help your case.
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Why Do We Get Addicted to Things?What makes a particular habit or substance an addiction?
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New Therapy Halts Rare Brain Disease Depicted in 'Lorenzo's Oil'Doctors have successfully suppressed a rare brain disease that typically strikes young boys, by using a novel type of therapy that alters a patient's genes.
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2 Missing WWII B-25 Bombers Found in the Pacific OceanUsing a sonar-equipped underwater robot, a team of scientists has discovered the debris of a missing World War II-era B-25 bomber plane off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
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Extinct Toothy Carnivore Named After Egyptian God of the UnderworldScientists have identified a new species of small, toothy mammal that once ruled the food chain in Africa almost 40 million years ago.
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Surprise! What 3D Scan Revealed Inside Egyptian Cat MummyResearchers are using high-tech 3D imaging software to reveal what is inside a 2,000-year-old Egyptian cat mummy and other ancient mummified artifacts in the museums' collections.
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Cannibal Calories: Early Humans Likely Didn't Eat Each Other for NutritionA new study suggests that it is unlikely ancient hominins cannibalized each other as an easy alternative to going out and hunting.
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What Does the Solar System Sound Like? Podcast Explores Science of NoiseThe "Twenty Thousand Hertz" podcast, named after the highest frequency that humans can hear, is a nod to all the audio phenomena we encounter on daily basis.
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Archaeologists Reconstruct Face of Medieval Man Who Died 700 Years AgoThe face of a British man who died about 700 years ago has been brought to life using reconstructive technology.
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Air Force One: 8 Fascinating Facts About the President's PlaneCountdown
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Albert Einstein's Signed Photo Up for AuctionAn autographed photo of Albert Einstein, showing the physicist in a pensive pose, is going up for auction.
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Master of Escapes: How an Octopus Broke Out of Its AquariumIn the dark of night, an enterprising octopus named Inky snuck out of his tank at the National Aquarium of New Zealand and made an eight-armed dash for freedom.
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Are You Ready for America's 1st Virtual-Reality Roller Coasters?Buckle up, roller coaster enthusiasts! The amusement park Six Flags has joined forces with virtual-reality giant Samsung to bump up the thrill factor of your rides.
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Isaac Newton's Recipe for Magical 'Philosopher's Stone' RediscoveredOne of Isaac Newton's 17th century alchemy manuscripts will be available in an online repository for those interested in the history of modern chemistry.
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Hand Jive: High-Tech Glove Turns Gestures into MusicIf you find yourself tapping at your desk, in the train or on a park bench, a new wearable music synthesizer might be just the gadget to help turn those tunes in your head into music you can record.
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US Government Invites Hackers to 'Hack the Pentagon'The Pentagon is about to pay hackers to break into government security systems.
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How Much Ice Can Antarctica Afford to Lose?A new paper finds large areas of Antarctic ice could lose their landlocked roots if as little as 5 to 13 percent of the shelves were to disappear.
