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Baby Pics Can Diagnose Deadly Cancer
Pictures of baby Noah showed a milkiness in one eye, which later indicated retinoblastoma. Elizabeth Shaw, courtesy of Bryan Shaw Like most parents, Bryan Shaw snapped unending pictures of his new son...
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Surgical Needle That Sucks Wine From Bottle Without Removing Cork
Coravin Wine Access System Brian Klutch Wanting only a glass or two of wine puts drinkers in a tough spot. Once the bottle’s opened, the wine starts to oxidize and lose its flavor. No rubber stopper...
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How Did Mars Die? NASA's Newest Spacecraft Aims to Find Out
Maven At Mars NASA/Goddard CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In their infancy, maybe even into their adolescence, Earth and Mars were more alike than they were different. Each rocky world was pockmarked by...
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The Week in Plagues: Invasive Cane Toads, A Sand Flea Living in a Scientist's...
sunset through the chainlinks theilrHere are some links on infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web this week. Have more? Add them in the comments.In outbreak newsThe Verge reports...
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Which Animals Can Have The Most Babies? [Infographic]
Fecundity Michelle Mruk An organism's fecundity is the number of offspring it can have in a lifetime. Here, species are listed from left to right by adult body weight.This article originally appeared...
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Genetics In The Caribbean Show Marks Of Atlantic Slave Trade
Beach on Margarita Island, Venezuela Photo by Enano275 on Wikimedia CommonsThe Caribbean's complex history has given the area more than diverse languages and delicious food. The indigenous South...
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Scientists Identify The Most Irreplaceable Places On Earth
Primary forest in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Natural National Park was named the most irreplaceable site for threatened species in the world. Daisy...
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How Stores Track Their Shoppers
'Til You Drop Robinsons Place Manila, Philippines Ninjakeg, CC BY-SA 3.0You've seen it happen. One day, you're aspirationally browsing performance outerwear online; the next day, you're seeing ads for...
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Found: A Receptor For The Smell Of Rotting Flesh
A female specimen of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) breed with fantails Azul via Wikimedia Commons The striped zebrafish is a popular pet, not uncommon in aquariums. But it may have a lot more in common...
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Flowers Made From Code And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Code Flowers Daniel Brown via Creative Applications Network
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The Week In Numbers: The World's Oldest Animal, A New Mission To Mars, And More
Bertha Courtesy Washington State Department of Transportation 57.5 feet: the width of the world's largest tunnel-boring machine, the 25,000-horsepower Bertha 10 months: the time it will take NASA's...
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Can Artificial Meat Save The World?
The Meat Lab Brian Klutch On an ordinary spring morning in Columbia, Missouri, Ethan Brown stands in the middle of an ordinary kitchen tearing apart a chicken fajita strip. “Look at this,” he says....
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How U.S. Special Forces Fit A Bridge In A Backpack
Backpack Bridge courtesy Utah State University The ProblemIf U.S. Special Forces agents need to scale a wall, traverse a canal, or cross between rooftops, they typically use an everyday 40-pound...
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Everything You Need To Know About Today's MAVEN Mission To Mars
Live streaming video by UstreamWe're going to Mars today! The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, or MAVEN for short, is set to blast off this afternoon, Eastern Time in the U.S. On Friday,...
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Listen To A Crazy Piano Invented By Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, in between doing stuff like painting the best-known piece of art in the world, apparently had time to sketch up a quick blueprint for an instrument: the "viola organista," a...
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Check Out This Curly Protein From The Deadly Nipah Virus
Nipah Virus Phosphoprotein Structure The Scripps Research InstituteThis symmetric tangle of telephone wires (Remember those?) represents a key protein in the Nipah virus. Nipah is an emerging human...
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FYI: Could A Virgin Birth Ever Happen?
Virgin Mary De Agostini/A. De Gregorio/Getty Images Virgin birth, known to scientists as parthenogenesis, appears to be rather common in the animal kingdom. Many insects and other invertebrates are...
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Sports Bras Could Save Horses' Lives
Photo: Oskar Danielsson I’m not a gambler, but YouTube videos of horse races are my Monday Night Football. Always rooting for the underdog (i.e. the one with the weirdest name), I love watching them...
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Iran Unveils New Reaper-Sized Drone
Iran's Fotros Drone Iran's latest unmanned flying camera with bombs. Al Alam Today Iran unveiled the Fotros drone, their largest unmanned aircraft to date. According to Iranian state-affiliated news...
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