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Is it Selfish to Eat Shellfish?
Can crabs feel pain? New research on the clawed crustaceans suggests the answer is yes. A group of UK...
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Science and the Fight Against Hunger
Although the world produces enough food to feed everyone, two million children die of malnutrition every year. Food insecurity...
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Leadership Skills May Be Genetic
An international research team says it has identified a specific DNA sequence associated with leadership skills. The findings, which...
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First Known ‘Social Chromosome’ Found
To humans, all fire ants may look alike. But the tiny, red, stinging bugs known as Solenopsis invicta have...
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Doomsday Clock Holds Steady at 5 Minutes to Midnight
Last year the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its famous “Doomsday Clock” — which measures the likelihood of...
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DARPA Considers Deploying Technology on Ocean Floor
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is investigating ways to store technology, including drones, on the ocean floor...
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7 of the 10 Most Air-Polluted Cities Are in China
Air pollution in China is at an all-time high. The Asian Development Bank together with Tsinghua University recently released...
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Mars Rover Finds Intriguing New Evidence of Water
The first drill sample ever collected on Mars will come from a rockbed shot through with unexpected veins of...
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Black Carbon the Second-Biggest Human Cause of Global Warming
Soot ranks as the second-largest human contributor to climate change, according to a new analysis, exerting twice as much...
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2012 Among the 10 Hottest Years on Record Globally
The average global temperature in 2012 was among the 10 hottest since official record keeping began in 1880, with...