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Brain Scan Foretells Who Will Fold Under Pressure
A new study finds that activity in distinct parts of the brain can predict whether a person will remain...
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Self-Sculpting Sand Robots Can Duplicate Any Object
MIT researchers from the Distributed Robotics Laboratory are working on the very first steps towards nano-bot technology. In their...
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Spectators Experience Same Brain Impulses as Dancers
Watching a beautiful ballet can move viewers in more ways than one, according to a recent study in PLoS...
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Environmental Rules: Job Killers or Job Creators?
The Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews all proposed federal...
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Signing Tennessee Anti-Evolution Bill Into Law Would Be ‘Dumb’
Among its more dubious claims to fame, Tennessee was the site of the 1925 “Monkey Trial,” in which John...
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Thousands of Dolphins Dying in Gulf of Mexico
The dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico are in the midst of a massive die-off. The reasons why remain...
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Ph.D.s Are Leaving the Ivory Tower
Not so long ago, doctoral students were viewed as the galley slaves of the scientific world, spending long hours...
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New Data Support Einstein on Accelerating Universe
Galaxy measurements indicate dark energy, not flaw in relativity, to blame for cosmic repulsion
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New Evidence of Earliest Use of Fire
Scientists say they have new evidence that our ancestors were using fire as early as a million years ago....
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How to Use Light to Control the Brain
Can a few neurons trigger a full memory? In a new study, published in Nature, a group of researchers...