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New Studies Refute Report of Arsenic-Loving Bacteria
It was a provocative finding: strange bacteria in a California lake that thrived on something completely unexpected — arsenic....
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Meditation Techniques Are Not One-Size-Fits-All
If you aren’t enjoying your meditation practice, a small new study suggests a possible reason why: You aren’t doing...
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Thirteen Animal-to-Human Diseases Kill 2.2 Million People Each Year
Diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans, such as bird flu and tuberculosis, can wreak havoc on...
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Out-of-Body Experience Highlights Clues to Consciousness
Traumatic events are well known for producing a sense of unreality as we watch a disaster unfold. Most of...
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Spaceflight Extends Worms Lifetime
Spacefaring worms undergo genetic changes associated with longer lives in their Earth-bound cousins, research has shown. A number of...
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Dead Coral Reefs Can Come Back to Life
Coral reefs may be able to recover from disaster, according to a study that provides a bit of reassurance...
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Has the U.S. Reached “Peak Car”?
Traffic is easing as more Americans are deciding to drive less, sell their cars or not buy one at...
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Racial Bias Colors Visual Perception
It is often assumed that processes such as visual perception work in the same ways in all people, but...
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Can Higgs Research Be Used to Transport Matter or Bend Time?
A century after Albert Einstein came up with his theories of relativity, a constellation of Global Positioning System satellites...
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Rights to Resources
Two safeguards for communities’ rights to resources can help implement the Nagoya Protocol, argues biodiversity specialist Krystyna Swiderska. As...